"President Catherine Announces the End of Immigration!"
"Is Ending the Immigration Policy Good or Bad?"
"Analyzing the Benefits and Drawbacks of the Immigration Policy Under the Apocalypse"
Newspapers were filled with these reports. On January 18, the Catherine government officially stopped accepting immigrants from abroad and closed all immigration routes.
Most Federals cheered for the policy. Some even called Catherine the greatest female president in the Federation's history—without exception!
Of course, there was no exception, because she was the only female president.
However, some people compared her with Conner and others. According to the results of the comparison, people gave Catherine a highly satisfactory evaluation for her performance after taking over the Federal Government.
As soon as she took office, she targeted the pain points in ordinary people's lives.
Economic problems, as well as the issue of more high-quality immigrants squeezing the lower classes' living space.
Many of the foreign immigrants were... foreign members of the Middle Class. They were well educated, had equally rich work experience and technical skills, and some of them were even very wealthy or held a certain social status, such as fallen Small Nobles.
The arrival of these people was a powerful assault on the already limited living space of society's lower classes. Just look at the current Private Shelters—their requirements for recruiting residents had become much stricter.
In the past, they could accept all kinds of applicants unconditionally. Now, however, they had requirements, and applicants had to sign contracts.
They were essentially indentures. Once someone signed, it was equivalent to turning their entire family into the shelter's slaves.
Compared with the slaves of two hundred years ago, these slaves might have only a little more freedom, a little more dignity, and a few private possessions. That was all.
But when the Catherine government announced