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8. " The American system allows fairly radical changes in policy and law in short periods of time."

Not in the last 30 years, since the filibuster became weaponized, and legislation can be blocked simply by a single member emailing the senate leader they intend to filibuster/challenge a cloture vote, meaning they will require a vote rather a vocal acclamation.

Any vote banning immigration would be challenged. immigration was essentially banned from the early 1920’s until the 1960’s, with strict quota on how many from which countries would be admitted each year, with some countries - can you guess which? - having a quota of precisely zero.

Think about how communities of naturalized citizens might vote if republicans rammed through a law banning all immigration.

We can NOT go from being welcoming to immigrants to banning them and back to welcoming them again in 4 years...

We already did, from 2016 to 2020, with the filibuster in place, and are once again, with the filibuster still in place, so your reasoning that killing the filibuster would be disastrous for immigrants is not a sound argument.

We must not fear the death of the filibuster- it will set us free!