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Ran Abramitzky and Leah Boustan on Immigration Then and Now

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Is There a Super Majority in the House or Senate?

There is a steady drum beat of anti immigrant sentiment throughout history. But what's different now is that there is a group that's pulling away in trying to make the case for emigration. Emigrants came here because the streets were paved with gold, which is where your title of your book comes from, streets of gold. And people flocked to the american s to all kinds of pieces f American countryside before 19 21. There's a view that emigration ast was pretty great but it's not nearly as rosy today.

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