>Hi Mike, nice to see you too. Hope you're also well! :-)
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>I don't advocate banning all forms of immigration. I was just exploring the possibility. I don't wish this to happen, but if it did, it's what the government (and by definition, the majority) here wants. It's not a tragedy,

FWIW, when the US had an extremely restrictive immigration policy in the 1930's, it was, in fact, a tragedy and contributed to the deaths of hundreds of thousands (including some of my ancestors and, I suspect, some of yours).

Tamar