There’s a preprint paper out that claims to prove that the technology used in LLMs will never be able to be extended to AGI, due to the exponentially increasing demand for resources they’d require. I don’t know enough formal CS to evaluate their methods, but to the extent I understand their argument, it is compelling.
The question of why specific immigrants are here isn’t relevant to the topic of how they should be treated once they’re legally here. Some are here bc of bad US foreign policy, others aren’t, but all should be treated with respect.