I was wrong. Not 1 million people applied for the 50.000 lottery slots. 11 million people applied for the 50.000 lottery slots. What does this mean if we are trying to establish an immigration policy that serves our national interest? What does that mean? It means we have far more people who have applied to come to our country than we can ever accept. Professor Borjas at the Kennedy School at Harvard. himself a Cuban refugee. has said in his book "Heavens Door" that for a poor person anywhere in the globe. coming to the United States is a tremendous benefit to them. All of them will benefit. almost universally they will benefit by coming here. It is not a question of whether the individual will benefit if they come here: it is a question of who can come here since we cant allow and have no capacity to come close to allowing everybody to come to America who would like to come here. What have Canada and Australia done? They said: We are going to set an immigration policy that serves our national interest. How commonsensical is that? Our national interest.
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