The US government is competent but really, really slow, this nativism/anti-immigrant trend will disappear when we actually start falling behind China but that's not for several years.
Can you explain the relationship between anti-immigration and manufacturing success? As the sibling comments says, the USA has far more immigration than, well, anywhere in the world.
By total numbers, probably. As a % of population, I don't think the US comes even close to the top. Probably even Canada and other North American countries have a even higher percentage, so it doesn't even have the most in North America.
And just eyeballing it, you'll notice most countries demographics don't radically change in the span of a generation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_and_d...
I’m not sure about that compared to other countries, but I’m also not sure why it’d be desirable to have a higher percentage. Seems like it’d be extremely risky to an existing society to even hit something like 33%
It has 10x the US per-capita immigration quotas. And it takes less than a single electoral cycle to go from permanent resident to citizen!
Unsurprisingly, the current liberal party in power is very popular among immigrant born population...
Immigration is not just about importing people. It's about importing a culture that is better suited for the demands of your society's ambitions. On the surface it's about bringing in people but really it's about bringing in a people.
Nope, America largely exterminated its native cultures hundreds of years ago. The culture that exists today is the immigrant culture of nation founded on ideas (freedom, slavery, capitalism, democracy) not bloodlines. America can be for anyone who wants to be part of that story.