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Policy

Come on In, the Country's Fine

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.12.2008 5:55 PM

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Immigration to the United States, 1820-2007.


Immigration to the US, 1820-2007 v2 from Ian S on Vimeo.

I don't know about you, but this video makes me feel warm and fuzzy about immigration. Look! A snazzy animated rainbow flowing into our country. How can that be bad?

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  1. John C. Randolph   17 years ago

    This movie shows the asians migrating to the USA across Europe? Ridiculous!

    -jcr

  2. Warren   17 years ago

    We totally rock! Everybody wants to live here.

    U!S!A! U!S!A! U!S!A!

  3. 24AheadDotCom   17 years ago

    Great post from Katherine Mangu-Ward, capping it off with the cynical "How can that be bad?", setting me up to indicate just some of the ways that things have and can in the future go wrong.

    Let's start with something Reason doesn't want to discuss: the tremendous PoliticalPower that the Mexican government has inside the U.S.

    Would you believe it? I've almost 500 posts tagged with that term. Pack a lunch, there's learning ahead.

  4. J sub D   17 years ago

    What Warren said.

  5.   17 years ago

    The Enlightened and Tolerant hoisted by their own petard.

    Always a pleasure to see!

  6. Hogan   17 years ago

    Would you believe it?

    Yeah

  7. SIV   17 years ago

    I thought MexicanGovernment was one word?

  8. MikeP   17 years ago

    So that's what that giant sucking sound was...

  9. 24AheadDotCom   17 years ago

    I have very ImportantNews to announce: my wife divorced me for my MexicanGardener. I hate my life!

  10. dhex   17 years ago

    [quote]Would you believe it? I've almost 500 posts tagged with that term.[/quote]

    of course we believe it.

    you also don't UseSpaces.

    see, the issue is you have no idea how the concept of credibility works outside of your little universe. you see, mr. whacko, credibility is a function of how others see us, not how we see ourselves. when everyone sees you as a CrazyLoon who doesn't UseSpaces, your credibility is VeryLow.

    and that's why your tag numbers AreMeaningless.

  11. shecky   17 years ago

    So many colored dots flowing into the US will cause the globe to become lopsided. This phenomena is called PeakPopulation.

  12. 24AheadDotCom   17 years ago

    Shecky, I know that you were pretending to me me. Not only that, but you made LibelousStatements. I believe I can sue you under the DMCA. I am researching it now.

    I suggest you book AnAttorney.

  13. The Wine Commonsewer   17 years ago

    That's pretty cool.

  14. the innominate one   17 years ago

    it seems like so many more than 500 posts

  15. jeff   17 years ago

    I was expecting the red European dots to get more intense in the 1880-1910 time frame, but that doesn't seem to be the case. Didn't most of Italy move here in that time?

  16. Ben   17 years ago

    If the country is so bad, why is everyone trying to break into it so that they can live here?

  17. aghast   17 years ago

    I'm so offended that they used yellow for Asians.

  18. Kolohe   17 years ago

    I'm pretty concerned about that steady flow of purple from down under. Because as everyone knows, Australia is entirely peopled with criminals.

  19. anarch   17 years ago

    Slave trade included? Emigration excluded? Smooth video, though.

  20. Coleman R. Mulkerin   17 years ago

    What J sub D said

  21. Hacha Cha   17 years ago

    the mexican government does have some amount of influence but not necessarily on lots of important issues. sure they can get the feds to make tequila laws that favor mexico, but I would say the US has more power in Mexico, look at how they "convinced" them to change their minds about decriminalizing drugs through an addict registration program?

  22. robc   17 years ago

    Clearly inaccurate, there are not that many immigrants in the dakotas? None on the coasts, really?

  23. J sub D   17 years ago

    Slave trade included? Emigration excluded? Smooth video, though.

    The video starts at 1820.

    A senator from Vermont first introduced a bill to ban the importation of slaves in late 1805, and President Thomas Jefferson recommended the same course of action in his annual address to Congress a year later, in December 1806.

    The law was finally passed by both houses of Congress on March 2, 1807, and Jefferson signed it into law on March 3, 1807. However, given the restriction imposed by Article I, Section 9 of the Constitution, the law would only become effective on January 1, 1808.

  24. J sub D   17 years ago

    The not totally screwed up link.

  25. 24AheadDotCom   17 years ago

    You "libruhtarians" may not be concerned with the PURITY of our YoungWhiteVirgins and laugh at their defilement under the MexicanHordes but I don't wish to see our granddaughters worshiping
    Quetzalcoatl nude in unspeakable PaganRites.

  26. T   17 years ago

    I don't wish to see our granddaughters worshiping Quetzalcoatl nude in unspeakable PaganRites

    Speak for yourself. I'm fine with nude pagan rites. Just make sure the video gets posted somewhere.

  27. deBohun   17 years ago

    Excuse me, before everyone starts getting all excited about this silly animation, shouldn't you be asking about its source and representation values? Lies, Damn lies, and Statistics.

    Also, how do these inflows compare to other countries? Seeing these dots, which represent nothing that we know of, in isolation, without know about comparable dots, moving in other directions and into other countries, tells us little.

  28. Hazel Meade   17 years ago

    Those ballistic missiles are aiming a little far to the east if they are trying to hit Cheyenne Mountain.

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