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Huge assumptions there. And some significant work has gone into investigating the first and found it's the other way round: https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264288737-8-en.p...

> We can help Africa and South american countries

It would be a significant improvement if the US stopped "helping" South America. Allende would like a word.

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The effect you're talking about is not instant. If you get a lot of asylum seekers in a short time your GDP/capita will take a hit until they've been integrated into society and become a net positive.

And that period to get assimilated and become net positive might be a period of +- few decades which is an insanely long time in today's world of super fast moving money and economic conditions and 4 year hyper partisan election cycles.

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