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Should the U.S. Have Free Immigration?

The Soho Forum Debates

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The Importance of Institutions in the United States

The most robust counter argument that we heard this evening is the one about American institutions values capitalism it's true immigrants come from countries that have worse economic institutions. Muslim Americans are substantially more liberal on all of these measures than the people in their home countries they basically look like Americans around the year 2009 in terms of their opinion. Hispanics and Asians are trending more to the right than they were in previous decades Hispanic votes in the last election was 39% for Republicans which is way up from what it used to be.

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