Points-based immigration was meant to reduce racial bias. It doesn't | Justin Gest

While points-based systems are designed to reduce racial bias, they reproduce this bias in more subtle ways

Donald Trump caused an uproar last week when he labeled Haiti and African countries “shitholes”. This overt racism appalled people across the globe. But without using profanities, some of the world’s most well-regarded admission systems – which have informed Republican proposals here – quietly ensure few people from Haiti, Africa and countries subject to the “Muslim ban” ever immigrate.

Following the abolition of admission policies that evaluated applicants on the basis of their race and origin until the 1960s and 1970s, Australia, Canada and some countries in western Europe shifted to points-based systems that prioritized immigrants with desirable skills and regional free movement agreements with their neighbors.

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