Generally, and under normal conditions, people turn to America when there is something that attracts them, when they can find here an opportunity. If such an opportunity no longer exists, they do not come. Should this country experience a period of economic depression, the natural working of this law would be that many classes of unskilled labor-especially those who come here temporarily, expecting to return once they have accumulated sufficient money-would, of their own accord, leave the country.
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Alain de Botton
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George Orwell