But what about the millions of Mexicans, South Americans, Chinese, Canadians, etc. seeking entry who are not criminal and not bearing infectious diseases?
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Given this, the decision this week by Stephen Harper, the Conservative prime minister, to offer both an apology and compensation to Chinese-Canadians might seem surprising but not if the politics behind it are taken into account.
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While only about 20 of those who paid the head tax are still alive and fewer than 300 of their widows, Chinese-Canadians now form a community of around 1m with considerable political and economic clout.
ECONOMIST: Canada gives a belated apology to its Chinese immigrants
For decades, Canadians of Chinese descent have demanded an apology and redress.
ECONOMIST: Canada gives a belated apology to its Chinese immigrants
It found US and Australian workers get 10 public holidays, Canadians nine, Chinese 11 and Japanese 15.
Chinese students nowadays shuttle between China, EU, US like Canadians going to Tim Hortons for coffee.
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The United States is also unique in the scale on which it attracts human capital: of the 314 laureates who won their Nobel prize while working in the U.S., 102 (or 32%) were foreign born, including 15 Germans, 12 Canadians, 10 British, six Russians and six Chinese (twice as many as have received the award while working in China).
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On the other hand, well-publicised incidents in which boatloads of Chinese tried to land illegally in British Columbia last year have annoyed many Canadians.
The jot of non-Chinese come from all over the world: Filipinos mainly, plus Americans, Britons, Canadians, Indonesians, Thais, Indians, Japanese, Australians and Malaysians.
Valley is not overawing: according to a recent survey, Russians comprise only about 2.4% of immigrant entrepreneurs in the area, a modest figure when compared to Indians (33%), Chinese (8%), and even British (6.3%), Canadians (4.2%), Germans (3.9%), and Israelis (3.5%).
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