Quincy News: Canada’s Ruthlessly Smart Immigration Policy a Model for Trump?

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Watching our border to the north?
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– News and commentary from elsewhere covered by Quincy Quarry News.

Canada’s ruthlessly smart immigration policy a model for Trump?

Even President Trump recognizes our northern neighbor’s merit-based system as a model to follow.

Far from producing a backlash, Canadian voters couldn’t be happier about with their country’s immigration policies.

Recent polls show that 82 percent of Canadians think that immigration has a positive impact on their domestic economy. Equally impressive, two-thirds of those polled view multiculturalism as one of Canada’s key positive features as well as rated it even higher than hockey – Hockey!

Moreover, support for Canadian immigration has actually increased in recent years, despite a slow economy and the specter of terrorism. Further, on a percentage of population basis, Canada allows three times more immigrants to immigrant into Canada than does the United States.

LBJ signs 1965 Immigration act into law
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Conversely, US immigration policy remains mired in a morass of unintended consequences of the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, legislation championed by the late Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy and signed into law with great symbolic fanfare by President Lyndon Johnson.

Unfortunately, this act was not duly thought through as well as was all too often the case with legislation during the Johnson era and thus set the basis for the current immigration mess that has fueled considerable domestic as well as international acrimony.