"I'd like to sponsor this 17-year-old Korean girl I've had my eye on ..."
Posted on 02/14/2018 8:32:29 AM PST by EdnaMode
The raw emotions generated by immigration policy—provoked by heartrending stories of families torn apart by deportation, or citizens murdered by illegal immigrants—have scrambled political allegiances and confused public debate. Republicans, usually the champions of family values and small government, now want to restrict family reunification and give bureaucrats the power to screen people who want to enter the country. Democrats, traditionally the allies of the working class, want big business to select immigrants and have given scant attention to the legitimate interests of working-class natives.
The only way to end this politically charged debate is to think carefully about benefits and costs as well as politics and perceptions. We need a new immigration system that offers liberal admission policies but targets its benefits to native workers rather than corporations.
Economic research provides little doubt that immigration benefits our economy. Highly educated immigrants offer their skills, entrepreneurial drive and much-needed expertise for our most important industries. Low-skilled migrants are willing to do back-breaking but vitally important labor that most Americans refuse. Both types bring their purchasing power, which increases the demand for American services and American-made goods, and their cultural heritage, which enriches ours.
The problem posed by migration is that the benefits are not evenly distributed. They flow to the migrants themselves and the corporations that hire them. Consumers do receive better products and lower prices, but ordinary people don’t really perceive these benefits. And working-class people may suffer a decline in their wages (some or many of them, depending on which economist you ask, but most agree the decline is not large), or (certainly, in most cases) believe that immigration undercuts their wages and threatens their cultural values.
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Give bureaucrats the power? Does this clown think law enforcement is a new concept?
Instead, I would employ one of these.
I’ve known a couple who I would be willing to sponsor. And I’ve known some fellow citizens whom I’d like to trade even for a couple of motivated, family oriented, God fearing foreigners.
The other countries do not seem interested in making the trade.
But, like almost everything else beneficial to our country, law enforcement is RACIST!
Great idea, actually, but with a few addendums.
ALL folks voting to allow open borders MUST sponsor all folks entering. This includes welfare, education, and medical costs as well as any legal costs associated with crime.
But, as we know (because the NYT and other math challenged idiots tell us), immigrants bring more financial benefits to the country then they cost.
Bingo.
Some of the finest Americans I know were born elsewhere, and they are more American than some punk born in Marin County who is living on mom’s couch at the age of 30.
You two are ignorant. Allow me to educate you. They can not give "bureaucrats the power to screen people who want to enter the country" they have had it for at least 100 years.
Do these guys think you just waltz up to the boarder and they hand you a visa?
If I were President, I would make a master list of the addresses of all Senators/Reps on the Amnesty bandwagon, I would then have the appropriate agencies go into their neighborhoods, buy any for sale properties and immediately start moving 3rd World refugees into those houses.
Reunification should happen in their home country.
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