@sun @kaia @lain that's true, but I don't believe just because you've been here longer you automatically deserve special treatment.

your first point:

> 1. it is not managed by adults thinking about the benefit of people already here

I just don't buy it. Not as reasoning for any type of immigration policy, anyway.

Do the people of Minneapolis have to deal with a lot of cultural stressors from the huge group of Somali immigrants? Certainly. Do the long established residents deserve any special treatment or have they been wronged by this? Not in a way that could be claimed as damages in court, anyway.

So from a legal perspective I think it's nonsense. From a community planning perspective -- that's a different cup of otters. If you handle it wrong you're going to end up with friction that may even escalate to violence. But people really need to get over themselves about this. (not going to happen; they'll just be pissy and vote against immigration)

Really it's not so different than when the Great Depression caused the "Mass Exodus From the Plains" of poor rural people to the cities. Did the city folks have to suffer through country folks of all types showing up in their neighborhoods and disrupting their way of life? Absolutely.

So how do you prevent that? It wasn't even an immigration problem. Just thinking about what this was like in the upper midwest knowing the cultural breakdown of areas in Wisconsin and Iowa -- Milwaukee/Chicago would have been flooded with German, Dutch, and Polish. This kind of thing will happen again if the economy crashes hard enough: people will flee to the cities to find work.

And honestly, who wants their community flooded with Pollacks? /s

share your best stupid Polish joke:

Why does a Polish race track driver make eight pit stops? Two for gas, six for directions.