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ideas from quantitative finance, examining events occurring

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interviews with some of the most interesting people in the world of finance. To learn more

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Migration has become a huge political issue in nations all around the world.

Polls showed that a majority of voters see immigration as one of the most important issues,

making it difficult for politicians to avoid taking a stance.

As I've mentioned in prior videos, almost half of the global population who are eligible to vote will have that opportunity in 2024. And thus the issue of immigration has been getting a lot of

press almost everywhere.

Immigration has been a hot topic in Europe since 2015-2016, when over 2 million people came to the EU,

mostly fleeing the civil war in Syria. In Britain, the debate over immigration influenced the 2016 vote to leave the EU.

The topic has been a huge issue in American politics too.

Last month, Joe Biden outraged the left wing of the Democrat Party by enacting one of the

toughest executive orders on immigration ever issued by a Democrat,

which allows officials to quickly remove migrants illegally entering the United States without processing their asylum requests.

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