I feel like I should make a quick explanation on the many confusions regarding immigration. First, lets divide America into a couple of groups.... Job Arch Types (1) Minimum Skill/ Unwanted/ Low Pay Ex: Maid, Trash Collector, ect. (2) Minimum Skill/ Wanted/ Low Pay Ex: Gas Station Attendant, Fast Food Worker, ect. (3) Minimum Skill/ Unwanted/ Good Pay Ex: Construction Worker, Farmer, ect. (4) Medium Skill/ Unwanted/ Good Pay Ex: Civil Servant, Engineer, Repairmen (5) Medium Skill/ Wanted/ Good Pay Ex: Average office or middle class job. (6) High Skill/ Wanted/ Great Pay Ex: Doctor, Scientist, ect. (7) Job Creators Ex: Investors, Entrepreneurs, Corporate Heads Now that we have clarified the archetypes that exist in the market, we need to connect this to immigration. Here's a couple of problems Americans have been having in the last decade......... - We have plenty of low level jobs that no one wanted. - We have had about a million good paying jobs open that require little more than an associates degree. No one takes these jobs, as they require tons of work. - We have had tons of high skill and great paying jobs available on the market. We lack an educated work force that can fill all these ares. - We have extremely high economic growth,potential, but little money being stimulated to take hold of said growth. The US immigration policy has been taking different approaches to solving all these issues. We initially started letting millions of immigrants in so they could take the low level jobs that no one else wanted. This led to a thriving market, but it also came with many unexpected problems. Over time, these job openings slimmed more and more, until they started to be wanted again by many, which led to strict immigration policy. We now have a legal and illegal immigration rate from Mexico at 0%. Yet, we still have many of these job openings. Raising wages leads to more immigration from the lower class, but it can't be stated enough the need of leaving these to the unemployed and youth. Now, as for job type (3), we have yet to accommodate this in our immigration policy. These 750,000 or so jobs that remain un-taken . The populous refuses to take these, although we sometimes fill job openings from certain third world countries. Immigration has failed to take advantage of these, or our unemployed work force. Raising mandatory salaries rates leads to immigrants filling these slots. Then we have job type (6), where we have been failing miserably. Following our halt of immigration, we have tons of high paying job openings that no one is taking, and we lack the educational infrastructure to take advantage of these opportunities. Our immigration policy was suited towards giving visas to Indians and Europeans, but hardly ever full citizenship. This led to a vicious cycle of educated people coming and going from the workforce. The fourth issue, is a little more tedious. To attract the rich, job creators, and investors, we need to provide lots of tax breaks, or markets for them to invest in. The US policy has always been to stimulate inner growth within the country, by subsidizing and giving breaks to our own corporations. Immigration policy is naturally against letting foreign moneybags to our country. Now that I have clarified immigration, let me give my ideas on system reform....... - Immigration reform should drastically limit the movement of uneducated workers. This means Mexico and the Caribbean need to be shut down. This can be changed once the jobs rates return to normal. Which they seem to be already doing, with immigration at pre recession levels (Good Jobs also) - People currently integrated within the work force need to be granted amnesty. Removing them from the national markets would cause much job and growth loss. Non essential assets should be reviewed on their economic potential. The new laws that allow young adults to stay in America should remain. - The system should be reformed to allow full immigration for the educated and trained. This means longer work Visa's and faster citizenship paths. This will restore prosperity until the work force becomes re-stimulated - Take away the 100's of billions we give to the 1% farmlands and factories. UI benefits to the rich and corporate welfare laws should be slightly lowered or outright eliminated (UI benefits). The non essential money should be used as incentives for multi-national corporations, mostly directed at strategic countries. Flood the Jews, Swedes, and all the other greedy money bags with the cash they need to create jobs. Fear of globalization has hurt the economy enough. Fair feedback is welcome. I'm really more conservative on immigration, as I know the fear of having to much border movement. Rampant open border policies cause unemployment in the long term, at least in our circumstances. That does not change the fact that there are educated people out there who can make us prosperous again. We already have one of the highest GDP growth rates in the developed world, so lets keep that from waning.
I was expecting more people, but its clear moderate policies don't instigate the same kind of debate straight forward left and right one's do.
