"Immigration is now prohibited in a similar way to alcohol during Prohibition.6 Although it had exceptions for religious, medical, or industrial purposes, alcohol prohibition outlawed all other sales.7 For both alcohol and immigration, the result of prohibition has been the same: widespread violations of the law, black markets, the spread of criminal organizations, arbitrary enforcement, government corruption, and massive government expenditures of taxpayer money to stop the violations."
This flowchart for legal U.S. immigration is something else.
https://www.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/2023-03/2023-bier-immigration-figure-4-expand-4.png https://hachyderm.io/@estherschindler/113777410063823259
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Qybat
In response to this post@nazgul It works the same way here - immigration makes a lot of people very angry, often for reasons of barely veiled racism. So we set up the same nightmare of bureaucracy for legal immigration to serve as a filter that keeps the dirty poor people out. If you have enough money to navigate the system, you can come in. There are even 'investor visas' that give a fast track path to citizenship if you have at least six figures to throw around.
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