In March 2018, the California State University, Monterey Bay invited me to give a brief talk at their community forum. It was the best response I’ve ever received. I normally talk to Republicans and conservative groups and it’s an uphill battle. The audience was disproportionately Latino.
If anyone is interested and asks me about it in the comments, I’ll share in the comments an interesting conversation I had with a fellow Canadian immigrant after my talk.
I am familiar with your arguments because I have read the same in The Economist for the last 12 years, and generally agree. I question how the welfare argument can be true when the large(sanctuary) cities in north america now claim bankruptcy from immigrant costs.
Well arranged data spread over many years do not explain, it seems, facts on the ground in this decade so far.
What say you?
Ask and ye shall receive. (Junio asked.)
In Q&A, I pointed out that under the welfare reform of the mid-1990s, the federal government would not pay for welfare even for green card holders for the first few years. I told the audience that I thought that was a good provision.
Afterwards a young Canadian woman came up and told me that she was one of the people cut out of certain government programs due to that provision. I started to say why I thought it was justified. She said that I didn't need to argue that because SHE thought it was justified too.
A refreshing interaction with someone who was old school.