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China says it is ending foreign adoptions, prompting concern from US
(www.theguardian.com)
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Understandable. As others said, they have a demographic decline.
Who doesn't right now?
China is unique. The one-child policy has only recently been lifted, and the government is actively encouraging the population to have more children. The problem is that because of economic hardship and because this policy has changed the family culture in China, parents still do not want to have multiple children.
The US, for example, has a very stable population.
The demographic situation in China really doesn't have an analog anywhere else in the world.
The US is only stable because of immigration. And since that's been attacked nonstop the US will be in trouble soon too
You've been deceived by political rhetoric. The share of the US population who are first generation immigrants is the highest it's been in over 100 years.
OK? That changes the fact that Republicans are dead set on stopping immigration?
You might notice whenever they have power Republicans take little to no substantive action on this issue, because it's only campaign rhetoric
I knew someone who used to say this about the Republicans and abortion, that they used the issue for fundraising from evangelicals and they weren't actually going to overturn Roe v Wade. I didn't think she's saying that anymore.
(Although immigration is very much a different topic, the oligarchs in charge mostly seem to realize that undocumented immigrants and H1B visa workers are much easier to exploit and abuse, so it's in their best interest to not fuck with those programs too much. But DeSantis did and fucked up the citrus industry in Florida for a while...)
A huge difference being the constant actual legislative attempts and executive orders over the past 40 years to undermine abortion rights, whereas immigration remains a topic that only inspires grandstanding. Hell, even the grandstanding isn't even about immigration as a whole, it's only about undocumented immigrants crossing the Mexican border, building a wall on the Mexican border, or sending troops to the Mexican border.
Ron Desantis, like you pointed out, seems to be the only person out there with an appetite to curb legal immigration and work visas, and he's become much less popular since he did all that