The West's conversion from the ethnocentrism of the late 19th century to
the liberalism of the mid-20th century occurred in part because the
Third Reich's treatment of the Jews horrified English-speaking
intellectuals and tainted the hereditarian view of human nature and
group differences. Western elites made it taboo to assert that biology
or genetics could cause race differences in IQ or behavior because that
inquiry would just lead to another Auschwitz. American and European
elites opened their countries to mass nonwhite immigration as part of a
long recoil against the Jewish holocaust.
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I think that past and current immigration are allowed at any level is because lots of wealthy people make money off of cheap labor. 90% of people outside of the us and n Europe have a quality of life that we would also seek to leave, so there is an unlimited supply of cheap labor.
A recent study showed that over half of new hires in IT jobs are foreigners on H-1b visas, and over 2/3 of the IT workers hired under age 30 are foreigners.
http://www.economicpopulist.org/content/bogus-tech-worker-shortage-call-out
Only 40% of PhDs in engineering have degree-relevant work after finishing. Still billionaires like Zuckerberg, Bloomberg, Gates, and the Koch brothers claim we need more immigration because Americans are shunning STEM fields. More people competing for available jobs increases the billionaires' bargaining power and lowers workers' wages.
http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/the-phd-bust-americas-awful-market-for-young-scientists-in-7-charts/273339/
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