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The US has turned its back on skilled migrants, giving Australia an opening

Written by Stephen Kirchner, Program Director, Trade and Investment, United States Studies Centre, University of Sydney

The outgoing Trump administration presided over one of the most dramatic tightenings in US immigration policy since the 1930s.

Along with declining fertility, this saw US population growth fall to its lowest rate in a century, even before the onset of the pandemic.

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