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| America takes in as many immigrants per year (some years more) than Switzerland. Switzerland, like any sane nation would not open up its border to a poor crime ridden neighbor. We do have a fairly open border with Canada. | |
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Crime ridden neighbours ? Switzerland allowed Italians into Switzerland in the 1900s, 1910s, 1920ies, 1950ies, 1960ies ,,, and this in spite of having usually been an EMIgration country and NOT an immigration country
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| Americans are not anti-immigration in general (although some area) if you read carefully, they are anti-illegal immigration, mostly from South AMerica. You will rarely read an article about anti-Chinese immigration although they are in the top of immigrant countries. | |
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US Americans clearly are against immigration unless it is expressly tolerated by the federal government, which to me means that they here would vote for the SVP with 80%
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| 12.5% of Americans are foreign born (but as you know many of their kids are automatically citizens due to being born in the U.S., which is not true in Switzerland)...53.1% of immigrants in 2009 are from Latin America, 27.7% were from Asia...you can see further breakdowns below. | |
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Secondos here in Switzerland generally have been in CH long enough to become CH citizens fairly swiftly. Most however wait until having become more than 28 years old in order to avoid those between 380 and 450 days of military service (or more in case of any rank achieved)
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| Meanwhile Switzerland can't even deal (without 1/3 SVP vote) to having open borders with Italians, French, and Germans. This would be like the U.S. bringing in Brits and Canadians. I somehow think it would be much easier to bring in, integrate (if they want it) people from the UK and Canada, despite any cultural differences. As a society (on average) we are far more flexible with accepting and integrating foreigners. | |
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reality shows that Switzerland can deal with those open borders very well !