The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.
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Does the H-1B visa program cause a net decrease in the employment prospects of skilled U.S. job applicants in STEM fields?
It is widely claimed that the H-1B program "takes away jobs from Americans." For example, here's a message posted in the Academia chat room by SSimon not long ago:
The way I understand it when H-1B's are brought into the country it takes away jobs…
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Have the rich Arab states accepted almost no Syrian refugees?
According to speisa.com, BBC News, and sources cited by this skeptics post, and many others, "rich Arab gulf states" accept none or almost none Syrian refugees:
The six wealthy Gulf countries - Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait…
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Did the Obama administration halt processing of Iraqi refugees back in 2011?
From "Muslim ban" hypocrisy: Left quiet when Obama also halted visas by Andrew Bolt:
But why was the Left silent when the Obama administration refused to
issue visas to Iraqis for six months?
The discovery in 2009 of two al Qaeda-Iraq terrorists…
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Did most Mexicans who are in the U.S. illegally, enter through legal means?
According to the BBC,
Most of the Mexicans who are in the US illegally entered through legal means and then overstayed their visas, not by illicit border-crossing that a wall could prevent.
Looking for data on this, I found a 2006 Pew Report based…
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Has Trump built just 5 miles of wall where no barrier existed?
CNN’s Daniel Dale said just said this, in the course of fact-checking President Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention:
[President Trump] boasted about building about 300 miles of border wall. What he didn’t say is that…
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Will criticizing immigration be illegal in Sweden?
There's an article titled Sweden passes law to criminalize any criticism of immigration which says,
A new law will come into effect in Sweden after Christmas 2014, that will allow people to be prosecuted for criticizing immigration or politician’s…
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Have prior U.S. Presidents used executive actions to change immigration policy
I only caught 2 seconds of it on the TV news, but I heard President Obama claim that what he was doing with respect to Immigration Policy was not novel and in fact X-number of prior presidents had done the same thing (so we should all just chill…
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Did a senior U.S. Justice Department official state that 3- and 4-year-olds can learn immigration law well enough to represent themselves in court?
The following article—dating from March 5, 2016—in The Washington Post titled, “Can a 3-year old represent herself in immigration court? This judge thinks so.” is now making the rounds across the Internet in light of current U.S. immigration policy…
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Did Donald Trump ever say illegal immigrants should have a path to citizenship?
Recently, Donald Trump has called for mass deportation of illegal immigrants and limitation of birthright citizenship. However, many anti-Trump pundits have quoted a previous statement much friendlier to the undocumented:
"You have to give them a…
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Is the immigrant/crime correlation simply explained by lower wealth?
I am often confronted with statistics that show immigrants are much more involved in crime than the native citizens. This seems to be common in Western countries. Here are some examples, however, these might not be in English:
Netherlands : This…
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Are there hundreds of thousands of US citizens living in Mexico illegally?
I've seen an article shared a few times on social media entitled "Here's a twist: 91% of Americans living in Mexico are 'Illegal'". It claims:
According to a study by the National Institute of Geography and Statistics, around 739,168 thousand…
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Was Swedish dentist Bernt Herlitz fired because he revealed that migrant adults were fraudulently posing as children?
The Gateway Pundit writes:
Swedish dentist Bernt Herlitz revealed to authorities that after checking the molar teeth of hundreds of migrant children that 80% of the so-called children were actually adults.
Herlitz was quickly fired and now may lose…
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Has any immigrant from any of the countries named in Trump's executive order been guilty of terrorism on US soil?
President Trump has recently issued an executive order titled Protecting the Nation from Foreign Terrorist Entry into the United States, suspends the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program (USRAP) for 120 days as well as entry of people from Iraq, Iran,…
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Did the police in Italy force an elderly hotel owner to house African Illegal Immigrants on his property?
This YouTube video documents an altercation in an Italian hotel:
Italian Police have forced an elderly Hotel owner in Ficarolo (Rovigo) to house and provide for fifteen African illegal Immigrants on his property against his will. The footage,…
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Does immigration to the USA increase the unemployment rate?
Does immigration to the USA diminish the number of jobs available to US citizens?
According to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll:
The poll also finds that 56 percent of American voters believe that immigration helps more than it hurts [...] That's…
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