To summarize: 1) the solution to illegal immigration is to toss the current hypocritical & prejudiced quota system for the legal kind. 2) People screaming “they took our jobs!” need to realize they’re confusing race with economics & labor relations. 3) It’d be nice if immigrants learned the language, & occasionally responded when one of us said “hello”. Cultural isolation is a part of immigration that is beyond the capability of law to address.
***updated March 30th @ 5:14 PM EST*** Robot Economist of Freedom Democrats gets more in-depth on it, w/ this gem about those goofy quotas:
Politicians appear to be preoccupied with the fate of American’s with a high school degree or less to notice the high demand for individuals with graduate-level education [...] No one worries about the threat of immigrants with MBAs because they end up creating starting firms and hiring employees. Bill Gates’s low-key visit to Capitol Hill last two weeks ago to lobby for an increase in the H-1B visa quota (currently 65,000) is emblematic of Washington’s political blindness.
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