Posted on 11/27/2017 6:06:28 PM PST by Coleus
The Diversity Visa Lottery program was in the news last week after it was revealed that Sayfullo Saipov, the Paterson resident accused of masterminding that Manhattan terrorist attack, came here from Uzbekistan on such a visa.
The program hands out 50,000 green cards per year to randomly chosen people from all over the world, none of whom have to prove they have anything more than the equivalent of a high-school diploma.
I have always been critical of such programs not because of any potential for terrorism but for the simple reason that the United States does not need unskilled workers.
Our high schools graduate about 3.5 million people per year and many don't go on to college. They deserve decent salaries. But if we import competition from all over the globe, then many U.S. citizens will be stuck in low-wage jobs.
Eliminating that competition is the sort of thing you might expect a guy like Phil Murphy to support. The Democratic nominee for governor loves to speak of his sympathy for low-wage workers.
So how does he feel about the call to end the Diversity Visa Lottery program? To find out I listened to Murphy's answer when WNYC's Brian Lehrer asked him that question during an interview Thursday morning. Here it is:
"There may be elements of that that we need to revisit, but what we don't need to revisit is getting the balance right between living our lives, civil liberties on the one hand and public safety on the other hand. We have to wake up every single day getting that right, and that balance right.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Would you pick a prospective spouse to BRING INTO YOUR FAMILY by lottery? It’s CRAY-CRAY!
Immigration should benefit the country and the citizens.
The diversity lottery endangers US.
On one hand, they favor granting green cards to uneducated, unskilled and unassimilatable Islamic and anti American partisans who are illiterate in their own language and are dead set on forcing their religion and culture on Americans.
On the other hand, they claim automation is obsoleting low skill, uneducated workers so we must provide them a government financed basic living wage stipend. Not in some as yet unrealized hypothetical high tech future , but next year at the latest
Who would have thought technology would have progressed so quickly
USA doesn’t need unskilled workers ? Yes, but that’s largely because so many highly skilled workers are stuck doing unskilled work - because supposedly American corporations are allowed to recruit import and hire engineers and programmers and so forth from communist China and other foreign countries. It’s called trickle down McJobs
The “diversity” part is what is expensive. People of more similar language and culture are much less expensive to accommodate in many ways.
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