Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.

  • BonkTheAnnoyed@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 hours ago

    Yeah just like those other refugees fleeing repressive regimes across Eastern Europe and the southern hemisphere! Go back and fix the problems yourselves with your zero money or political power and total surveillance states.

    /s in case it’s not blindingly obvious.

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      No, no — you misspelled ‘America bad’.

      Now, repeat after me: America bad. See, it’s not that hard!