United States Immigration by Country

roley: yeah that's absurd. If we want to be kind to the politician in question we could say he got confused and quoted the number of Mexican immigrants in the US in total, not that come annually, and the number is probably close to being right.

tshalla: you're oversimplifying.

UrinePig: everything Trump has planned- though calling it a plan is really giving him way more credit than he deserves, let's say everything Trump was word vomited- is some combination of stupid, counter-productive, redundant, or unnecessary. All of it is red meat thrown to his supporters that are bigots, racists and xenophobes. Very little of it is informed by anything like a constructive policy idea. The small bits that are are things that have been fed to him by the likes of Steve Bannon who see themselves as defenders of Western civilization and immigration as corrosive. While I don't disagree with Bannon on everything these people are at best ignorant and misguided.

Yeah, TinklePork, you really drunk the Kool Aid on that one. The wall is complete nonsense - incredibly expensive, ineffective and completely redundant even if it were effective.

An enormous portion of the border is the Rio Grande. Out of curiosity, what there? You can't run it through the middle of an international waterway, can't put it on Mexican land, so...just block off American access to one of the major rivers of the U.S., the only substantial water hole for people anywhere along that arid stretch of country?

@kalbahamut I personally do not support Trump, but my best friend is a Trump supporter and he's not a bigot, racist, or xenophobe. Just be careful throwing around sentences like that.

senex: the commutative property can be applied to everyone. I don't know how left wing you are, but by the commutative property liberals are socialists and socialists are liberals; most people who identify as either would strongly disagree with this. I do agree that Trump is absolutely terrible, but when there's literally only two major parties the commutative property really falls flat. (Disclaimer: I may be misunderstanding what you mean by commutative property.)

"his supporters that are bigots" could be read to mean the portion of his supporters that fit that description. It doesn't have to be read to mean all of his supporters are bigots. Which I don't believe is true. Some Trump supporters are not racists or bigots, they're just okay with racism and bigotry. Or they literally never turn on the news.

The wall is too expensive. And the purpose is useless.

The comment "this hasn't aged well" hasn't aged well. Just say what you mean.

What options do they have closer to home, just wondering? Ethiopia, Yemen, Sudan and Eritrea are all countries involved in active conflicts. I guess there's Saudi Arabia nearby, but they aren't particularly known for treating refugees and laborers well. That leaves just Kenya, which is definitely much more peaceful than most African countries but still is nowhere near America or any Western country in terms of development.

as a Londoner I don't really think there was a problem with using state. Its provides a good thing to compare to and well they have similar authority

Yeah, public schools zoned for rich neighbourhoods. But that's part of the criticism.

Zoned for rich neighborhoods? What? Public schools are paid for by local tax dollars. So, if you have a rich neighborhood, the schools in that neighborhood end up being better-funded. It's just a natural occurrence of having locally-run school districts.

Yeah! I don't see any stars! not even stripes!

Honestly, I wish more people cared about flag design. The US and Canadian flags are both solid examples of good design (the US flag flirts with being over-complicated, but makes up for it in symbolism). National Flags are usually pretty good, though tending towards the bland, but state/province/county and especially city flags are often really really bad.

This video is worth your time on the subject.

I think the American flag strikes the perfect balance between being too busy and too simple.

I think I prefer the Canadian flag over the US flag, but I don't die-hard love either of them. The Kazakhstan flag on the other hand is truly a work of art! (I'm not joking, I think Kazakhstan's flag is beautiful)

I love the Uk's one and the Nordic country's flag (NOT SWEDEN, IKEA HAS TRAUMATIZED ME) also St Lucia and many island countries have beautiful flags. Personally, I think some middle eastern, balkan and African flags are horrible simply because they are way too similar

And I think sifhraven was aware of that, just commenting on how strikingly different it is.

Moldova is quite small though.

exactly why i voted Brexit

You just said the quiet part out loud. Whoops. Though of course anyone not being silly knows that this is pretty much the only reason.

Afghanistan is presumably on there for reasons related to war and the history of relations or non-relations between the countries. Nepal is a bit harder to justify in that sense.

There are a lot of areas of the country where there are Nepali-owned businesses everywhere; for example, near where I live in rural southeastern PA, there's a whole street essentially dedicated to Nepali businesses, something that's a rare find outside of major cities. Nepalis have immigrated here much like other South Asian group--economic opportunity--and many move here with their whole families, aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents included. And to add to this, a lot of ethnic Nepali-speakers in America are refugees from Bhutan who faced discrimination and ethnic cleansing--not sure if this is reflected here because their country of origin would be Bhutan and they mostly identify as Bhutanese, but either way, they make a significant number of the "Nepali" immigrants where I live.

I'm one of them :)

It's not really an outlier, it's for the same reason as India