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Christopher Caldwell: How Immigration Is Erasing Whites, Christians, and the Middle Class

Published | Video Starts at 04:30

And it was brought about by the very people whose entire reason for being in government was to stop immigration. And it's had an, an extremely destabilizing effect on the politics of the country. So they, according to the way British economists score the economy, more people, almost always from poor countries make you richer or something? Yes. I mean it's sort of like it adds a certain amount of units of labor and the country is that many units of labor richer. (04:30–04:42)

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Questions the economic belief that immigration from poorer countries makes a country richer.

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