Why is the United States, as a whole becoming so anti-immigrant. I understand that the US wants the ‘best and the brightest’, but is it not true that there are many people who don’t fit in the ‘best and the brightest’ category but can still be really productive and overall beneficial members of American society? Why push them away? The US does not lack resources. The US does not lack space. I can imagine a USA with 450-500 million population, doing great.
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There is a massive drug problem right now and a porous border is largely responsible for that. It’s not fair to legal immigrants to protect illegal immigrants so strongly. There is also a significant population of people who want to enter the US specifically to kill as many Americans as possible. Many on the left think having wide open borders can only benefit us. But we see the effects of that approach, as well as what is going on in Europe with immigration and that is both unrealistic and dangerous.
Next hefty fines for businesses hiring with ID. Even if it means shutting down business. No walls needed.
“Border fences rarely work to stop migration,” observes Reece Jones, associate professor at the University of Hawaii and author of Violent Borders: Refugees and the Right to Move. Most borders, he points out “are too long and too lightly guarded to have an impact on people moving through that space.” Apparently not effective @thankful . Which would be the logical conclusion securing 1000s of miles of border in remote inhospitable terrain isn’t practical. The best way to stop illegal immigration is to make the system as straight forward as possible so people don’t need to OR make it so people won’t need to immigrate. A lot of our trade policies have created a lot of poverty for people across the border (Farm subsidies, open trade, etc)
Specifically, would you support a proposal to consider all of EU as a single country for immigration purposes?
The current system also unfairly favor people from tiny splintered European countries with similar ethnicity.
Hence, IMO, treating all of EU as a single country would be fairer implementation of the ideal you stated. Such a policy would also have the benefit of drawing attention to the racial bias of such policies. It also remains an open question if such an ideal needs to be implemented for the 14% skilled immigrants.
Chain migration has been abused by the dems to manipulate voter demographic. The Mexicans uniformly vote dem/big government and are very pro illegal, which lead to more dem voters and electoral count for states like CA.
Study up on the history of the United States. We are culturally xenophobic. Look at how in the 1800s the following people were treated in the US
German immigrants
Irish immigrants
Chinese immigrants
Japanese immigrants
Look to ww1 and why we didn't join the fray till the very last minute. Have the same look at ww2.
Look at our long standing relationship with Mexico. Maybe the Spanish American War? How about in the early 1900s how the first out break of swine flu was blamed viciously on those south of our boarder.
Heck, I am sure you know about the Japanese internment camps in ww2, but drop the skin color and look up the German American internment camps.
It's not even racism, that's the funny common misconception, it's fear of outsiders and it runs rife in the US, it always has. And the first thing that goes wrong they are the easy target for whatever reason, usually due to culture clash.
Tl;Dr America has always been xenophobic because history is an endless waltz.
We really like comparing people to nazis.
As for racism, sexism, etc it absolutely exists on both sides of the aisle. That said, yeah left slings the words at the right.
Of course, this probably doesn’t make business sense to amazon, so it would be hard to convince a private Corp to do such a thing.
I’m Just sayin we need diversity 😜
It’s very much visible around the country as it was never before. This isn’t going to survive though and is a phase (good or bad depends on how left or right leaning you are)
If trump is serious he should hire American only and make his own products in USA, that’s leading by example. If he can ever do so we can expect other corporations to follow somehow but last I checked corporate are for profit so they do what makes them look at the stock market. Push all immigrant techies out of country and see how jobs will he sent out of USA hurting the economy. There isn’t a simple good solution so someone got to take hit with one policy vs the other.
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This wouldn’t be a problem if Americans were willing to pay more for their produce.
While the following doesn’t apply to every student in America but most likely aren’t interested in the technology field due to the volatility of the industry, sexual harassment, bullying and discrimination.
Add the fact that perhaps most American students expect to be handed great jobs with little effort therefore don’t work that hard and are then passed up by companies for foreign workers.
Or perhaps students work so hard at making ends meet and get mired in so much debt they can’t focus on being the best and brightest while in school which leads to this anti-immigrant sentiment.
Companies can also pay less for foreign talent or is that not true?
For politicians of both parties (bill Clinton made arguments similar to Trump) aren’t going to say: in the late 70s we started to decide that lowering popular expectations and living standards would help companies be more profitable while also making the workforce more precarious and pliable. So instead, they pit different segments of the population against eachother.
Historically anti-immigrant sentiment tracks downturns in the economy. In California anti-Chinese sentiment was encouraged by the growers and the newspapers during a long downturn at the end of the 1800s. In the early and mid 90s anti-immigrant sentiment increased after a recession with a sluggish recovery (for the population, not for investing in bubbles).
Immigration declined during the last recession but anti-immigrant sentiment has risen in another “recovery” that has left many people working similar jobs for less pay or benefits.
In short people opposed to immigration are history’s dunces and dupes for the rich and politically powerful.
As for undocumented workers, it’s the legal repression and lack of rights that allow them to be bullied in the economy. Funny how there are tons of formerly paid jobs that are done as free internships now but no one blames interns for “taking jobs” and no one says interns do the jobs that paid employees would refuse.
Decreases in pay and respect and increases in amount of productivity expected have everything to do with the balance of power between employee and employer. For the past 40 years both parties have given more freedoms to employers (right to work laws, union-busting etc) and that is how we have ended up here.
That said the US probably still has one of the most leinent and generous systems out there, which is kind of cool and sad at the same time.