The US has a lot less people per square kilometre than many populous countries. Is there anyway for the CULTURE and POLICY in the US to favour immigration rather than restrict it? Maybe lowering the labour week from 40 hours to say 20?
You're referring to the country that used to give immigrants 160 acre tracts of quality farmland for free. And if those immigrants fail to improve that land, they don't have to keep it.
How much more pro-immigrant can you get?
The US has a lot less people per square kilometre than many populous countries. Is there anyway for the CULTURE and POLICY in the US to favour immigration rather than restrict it? Maybe lowering the labour week from 40 hours to say 20?
Wasn't there a point where anyone on a boat could come?!?!
How many millions saw the Stature of Liberty as their first peak of America?
For a long time, the United States was the most pro-immigrant country on Earth.
You could have the US annex Canada early, and need even more people to settle. And then get Australia, and ask for people all over including Asia to settle the outback.
And once they get Alaska, try to populate it.
And I suppose the British are just going to hand it over to us if we ask nicely?
After a certain point that's about all they could do.
But by that point, we wouldn't have wanted those territories anyway. It's the great paradox that ruins many Ameriwank scenarios.
The US has a lot less people per square kilometre than many populous countries. Is there anyway for the CULTURE and POLICY in the US to favour immigration rather than restrict it? Maybe lowering the labour week from 40 hours to say 20?
Can we get a list of how many countries are more pro-immigration than the US? The United States is incredibly pro-immigration. There are ways for it to be more pro-immigration, but not by much.
Canada. That's about it.
IIRC, Argentina and Chile both explicitly encouraged immigration and did their best to attract Europeans to their countries. So you can put them on the list too.
As opposed to America?
Nerf the Chinese Exclusion Act and the immigration quotas of the 1920s that were in place until the 1960s. That means having to change some things about US society or the economy at the time.
Is there anyway for the CULTURE and POLICY in the US to favour immigration rather than restrict it?
IIRC, Argentina and Chile both explicitly encouraged immigration and did their best to attract Europeans to their countries. So you can put them on the list too.
We could have gone the Argentina route and passed laws encouraging immigrants without even considering laws that might restrict immigration (Chinese Exclusion Act, the Gentleman's Agreement, Quota Acts from 1920 to the 1950s, etc.). Of course, that didn't work out so well for Argentina...
The reason the US has much less people per sq mile is that it is massive only Russia, Canada, and maybe China are bigger in terms of area and it already has the third largest population in the world.
And lowering the work week to 20 hours that would be just weird how would anything get done.