Single Issue Voter: Controlling The Borders

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since 2012, [Japan] has expanded its labor force by around 4.2 million even as its population has fallen by more than three million. As the U.S. struggles to meet its workforce needs, policy makers in Washington would do well to take a page out of Tokyo’s book.

U.S. business must first accept that a real labor shortage exists and, like the Japanese, lead the way in incorporating talent that has long been neglected. In the U.S., that means finding ways to employ [American] workers who lack traditional credentials or who have been marginalized by such factors as poverty, substance abuse and criminal records.

Meanwhile, the U.S. government allows companies to replace the many sidelined, disadvantaged, older, isolated, or sicker Americans with millions of migrants who have been extracted from poor countries during the last 30 months.

“In Japan, the [labor] market is working as it’s supposed to work,” said Mark Krikorian, the director of the Center for Immigration Studies. He continued:

[Japan’s] tight labor market is prompting [business] efforts to draw more people into the world of work — which is what we should want. But what we’re doing [in the United States] is ignoring the social forces that are prompting Americans to drop out of the labor market and are just importing [foreign] replacements.

The replacement of Americans in their own society is the predictable result of establishment policy to make rich people richer

Where are these unemployed "american" (read: White) workers? Last I saw, White and US Employment in general, were at all time highs. The problem is, we don't have enough people in the country to do the jobs that are available. That is why wages have been skyrocketing. And the jobs that are availabe are the ones that "Americans" don't want to do, pick in fields, work in slaughter houses, etc. That is why the GOP is loosening child labor laws, so poor children of color, mostly latinos. can be exploited.

you dont read much do you?

labor participation is at an all time low.

try something other than liberal propaganda

[Anonymous]

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We clearly need immigrants and fortunately there are still many who wan't to immigrate here. Instead of two extremes of either banning legal immigration or opening borders to illegal immigration, why can't we built a regulated immigration pipeline. What we need is to control numbers, skills and conduct. A physician or farmhand should be ahead of line if farms and hospitals need employees. People with any drug or crime history should be outright denied, even if related to someone here.

I'm sure economist and sociologists would have better suggestions than mine but there has to be a proper system, which can be flexible to support country's needs.

[Anonymous]

[Anonymous]

I'm a European in the green card process and have lived in the US for years on various visas, all pertaining to professional expertise.

Having spent so much time and money on visa and green card attorneys, I think all nations that face immigration surges need well-organized and humane procedures. The bigger the crush, the harder it gets to treat people humanely. Look at migrants drowning in the Mediterranean. It's awful. I will never forget the photo of a toddler that washed ashore on a European beach many years ago. There have been so many since that fishermen on the north African coast routinely see bodies in their fishing nets. One fisherman who was interviewed said the day he saw an infant in his nets, he cried.

Here on this continent the arduous journey to cross the Americas into this country is no less fatal and exploitative. Knowing how desperate these people are, one would need a heart of stone to deny them basic human rights.

I don't know what the solution is, but surely it has to involve long-term stabilization of conflict zones. Climate change will bring about even more conflict and more migration, so the problem is only going to get worse around the world.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I'm a European in the green card process and have lived in the US for years on various visas, all pertaining to professional expertise.

Having spent so much time and money on visa and green card attorneys, I think all nations that face immigration surges need well-organized and humane procedures. The bigger the crush, the harder it gets to treat people humanely. Look at migrants drowning in the Mediterranean. It's awful. I will never forget the photo of a toddler that washed ashore on a European beach many years ago. There have been so many since that fishermen on the north African coast routinely see bodies in their fishing nets. One fisherman who was interviewed said the day he saw an infant in his nets, he cried.

Here on this continent the arduous journey to cross the Americas into this country is no less fatal and exploitative. Knowing how desperate these people are, one would need a heart of stone to deny them basic human rights.

I don't know what the solution is, but surely it has to involve long-term stabilization of conflict zones. Climate change will bring about even more conflict and more migration, so the problem is only going to get worse around the world.

And yet, the GOP opposes the solutions you suggest in your last paragraph. Most rational people understand that conflict and climate change are the two biggest drivers. So what is the GOP plan, other than caging people and separating minors from their families?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'm a European in the green card process and have lived in the US for years on various visas, all pertaining to professional expertise.

Having spent so much time and money on visa and green card attorneys, I think all nations that face immigration surges need well-organized and humane procedures. The bigger the crush, the harder it gets to treat people humanely. Look at migrants drowning in the Mediterranean. It's awful. I will never forget the photo of a toddler that washed ashore on a European beach many years ago. There have been so many since that fishermen on the north African coast routinely see bodies in their fishing nets. One fisherman who was interviewed said the day he saw an infant in his nets, he cried.

Here on this continent the arduous journey to cross the Americas into this country is no less fatal and exploitative. Knowing how desperate these people are, one would need a heart of stone to deny them basic human rights.

I don't know what the solution is, but surely it has to involve long-term stabilization of conflict zones. Climate change will bring about even more conflict and more migration, so the problem is only going to get worse around the world.

And yet, the GOP opposes the solutions you suggest in your last paragraph. Most rational people understand that conflict and climate change are the two biggest drivers. So what is the GOP plan, other than caging people and separating minors from their families?

The problem is .... long term stabilization equates to sending money to corrupt governments. We have done that for years and illegal migration has only worsened. What we are seeing today and for the last two years is not about climate change and conflict.
It is about Biden's rhetoric and actions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'm a European in the green card process and have lived in the US for years on various visas, all pertaining to professional expertise.

Having spent so much time and money on visa and green card attorneys, I think all nations that face immigration surges need well-organized and humane procedures. The bigger the crush, the harder it gets to treat people humanely. Look at migrants drowning in the Mediterranean. It's awful. I will never forget the photo of a toddler that washed ashore on a European beach many years ago. There have been so many since that fishermen on the north African coast routinely see bodies in their fishing nets. One fisherman who was interviewed said the day he saw an infant in his nets, he cried.

Here on this continent the arduous journey to cross the Americas into this country is no less fatal and exploitative. Knowing how desperate these people are, one would need a heart of stone to deny them basic human rights.

I don't know what the solution is, but surely it has to involve long-term stabilization of conflict zones. Climate change will bring about even more conflict and more migration, so the problem is only going to get worse around the world.

And yet, the GOP opposes the solutions you suggest in your last paragraph. Most rational people understand that conflict and climate change are the two biggest drivers. So what is the GOP plan, other than caging people and separating minors from their families?

DP. AFAIK they oppose the legalization of people already here illegally,
Not the whole package

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'm a European in the green card process and have lived in the US for years on various visas, all pertaining to professional expertise.

Having spent so much time and money on visa and green card attorneys, I think all nations that face immigration surges need well-organized and humane procedures. The bigger the crush, the harder it gets to treat people humanely. Look at migrants drowning in the Mediterranean. It's awful. I will never forget the photo of a toddler that washed ashore on a European beach many years ago. There have been so many since that fishermen on the north African coast routinely see bodies in their fishing nets. One fisherman who was interviewed said the day he saw an infant in his nets, he cried.

Here on this continent the arduous journey to cross the Americas into this country is no less fatal and exploitative. Knowing how desperate these people are, one would need a heart of stone to deny them basic human rights.

I don't know what the solution is, but surely it has to involve long-term stabilization of conflict zones. Climate change will bring about even more conflict and more migration, so the problem is only going to get worse around the world.

And yet, the GOP opposes the solutions you suggest in your last paragraph. Most rational people understand that conflict and climate change are the two biggest drivers. So what is the GOP plan, other than caging people and separating minors from their families?

And yet the democrats refuse to mandate e-verify which republicans passed. The best solution to reducing immigration

And democrats continue to expand work visas which let companies outsource US workers

There is NO worker shortage. Stop with the chamber of commerce nonsense

Raise wages and pay health benefits. People will flock to the jobs. Instead business wants cheap disposable desperate workers to work for peanuts.

[Anonymous]

Economists and journalists have exposed the ways tech companies take advantage of  HXXXB and OXXPT visa programs while bypassing American talent. 
 
Democrats abandoned the middle class and lost 3 Supreme Court picks because Hillary wanted to expand immigration

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/06/does-majoring-in-stem-lead-to-stem-job-after-graduation.html

Giving a blank check to foreign workers with a doctoral degree will only make it more difficult for highly-educated Americans, such as STEM workers, to find jobs in their fields of study.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, among the 50 million employed college graduates ages 25 to 64 in 2019, 37% reported a bachelor's degree in science or engineering but only 14% worked in a STEM occupation.

This means that less than a third (28%) of STEM-educated workers actually work in a STEM job. The statistics are far worse for minority students, where statistics show that minorities already struggle to gain employment.

The Computing Research Association's data shows that 2% of technology workers at seven Silicon Valley companies that have released staffing numbers are Black and only 3% are Hispanic.

But elites on this board only care about cheap housekeepers and cheap organic strawberries, screw three middle class.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Economists and journalists have exposed the ways tech companies take advantage of  HXXXB and OXXPT visa programs while bypassing American talent. 
 
Democrats abandoned the middle class and lost 3 Supreme Court picks because Hillary wanted to expand immigration

https://www.census.gov/library/stories/2021/06/does-majoring-in-stem-lead-to-stem-job-after-graduation.html

Giving a blank check to foreign workers with a doctoral degree will only make it more difficult for highly-educated Americans, such as STEM workers, to find jobs in their fields of study.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, among the 50 million employed college graduates ages 25 to 64 in 2019, 37% reported a bachelor's degree in science or engineering but only 14% worked in a STEM occupation.

This means that less than a third (28%) of STEM-educated workers actually work in a STEM job. The statistics are far worse for minority students, where statistics show that minorities already struggle to gain employment.

The Computing Research Association's data shows that 2% of technology workers at seven Silicon Valley companies that have released staffing numbers are Black and only 3% are Hispanic.

But elites on this board only care about cheap housekeepers and cheap organic strawberries, screw three middle class.

My husband has an MD/PhD from a foreign country and has worked for NIH and biotech companies. In non-profit, a lot of his colleagues are foreign as well. In for-profit, most people are American-born or American-degreed.

Do you know why?

Because for that many years of study, Americans do not want low pay. There is actually no competition at all - the American research scientists and engineers are going to start-ups and techs. The foreigners are more willing to work as government contractors on half the income.

The numbers you cite for STEM grads doing something else with their lives are numbers you see in ALL developed countries - in my husband's home country, it's the same thing. It's because STEM is hard, not just the degree, but the jobs as well. Employers take the hardest-working and most capable. A lot of STEM professions have long hours, and a lot of women who want to become mothers are shunted to the side at some point.

You are looking at these numbers and totally misinterpreting them, PP, because it's clear you're not in this field and know nothing about what it's like on the ground.

[Anonymous]

NPR had a segment on how tech workers are desperately needed but we are sending foreign students educated in American universities home because of visa restrictions. The hand wringing continued. Canada has more relaxed standards so the students are going there and working remotely for American companies. Canadian firms are hiring them and hiring them out to American companies.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

I'm a European in the green card process and have lived in the US for years on various visas, all pertaining to professional expertise.

Having spent so much time and money on visa and green card attorneys, I think all nations that face immigration surges need well-organized and humane procedures. The bigger the crush, the harder it gets to treat people humanely. Look at migrants drowning in the Mediterranean. It's awful. I will never forget the photo of a toddler that washed ashore on a European beach many years ago. There have been so many since that fishermen on the north African coast routinely see bodies in their fishing nets. One fisherman who was interviewed said the day he saw an infant in his nets, he cried.

Here on this continent the arduous journey to cross the Americas into this country is no less fatal and exploitative. Knowing how desperate these people are, one would need a heart of stone to deny them basic human rights.

I don't know what the solution is, but surely it has to involve long-term stabilization of conflict zones. Climate change will bring about even more conflict and more migration, so the problem is only going to get worse around the world.

And yet, the GOP opposes the solutions you suggest in your last paragraph. Most rational people understand that conflict and climate change are the two biggest drivers. So what is the GOP plan, other than caging people and separating minors from their families?

And yet the democrats refuse to mandate e-verify which republicans passed. The best solution to reducing immigration

And democrats continue to expand work visas which let companies outsource US workers

There is NO worker shortage. Stop with the chamber of commerce nonsense

Raise wages and pay health benefits. People will flock to the jobs. Instead business wants cheap disposable desperate workers to work for peanuts.

OMG, you have this backwards. Dems have been pushing eVerify for YEARS. It is the republicans who hire undocumetned workers, Like Donlad J Trump, who oppose it. Please stop with the BS and gaslighting.

nd the fact that wages are rising so much is a testament to the FACT that there is a worker shortage.

[Anonymous]

2018 when the GOP controlled the House, White House and Senate:

https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/26/republican-immigration-vote-673184

and

https://www.chicagotribune.com/nation-world/ct-trump-e-verify-illegal-immigration-check-20180522-story.html

2011:
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/republican-e-verify-bill-opposition_n_964915

and in GOP controlled Florida

https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2020/02/11/governor-dealt-setback-fellow-republicans-e-verify/4730701002/

and GOP controlled Texas

https://texasscorecard.com/state/e-verify-stuck-in-senate-as-illegal-border-crossings-continue/

GOP in California

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article275444521.html