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Immigrant living in Australia writing here.

The problem in Australia is it can get rather parochial, especially in areas such as medicine. In contrast, the US is more open in this regard.

The degree of difficulty to immigrate to US or Australia is relatively similar. Therefore, it is difficult to say that more immigration will create more jobs. Rather, there are some deep seated structural problems with the US economy at present, and the way Australia copies the US in all manner of politics, it will not be long before these problems arrive at our shores.




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