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[quote=Anonymous]The only-rich-immigrants people have no clue about the economy or the labor force.

We really don't need the immigration system to bring in money. Foreign investment comes here without immigration.

We don't need the immigration system to focus on bringing in more mid-level and higher professionals. The biggest problem I see in our current labor force (I recruit for our company in NOVA) is that we have a lot of underemployed people (e.g. people with master's degrees in unchallenging jobs that do not require a bachelor's degree). I see parents stressfully trying to change career fields because there are not enough opportunities for advancement where they are. The legal immigration system's focus on bringing in only those with higher education is directly competing with them.

We do need the immigration system to legally let in more hard working immigrants in low-skilled labor markets - agriculture, services, construction, etc. These currently are undocumented workers because they are shunned by the legal immigration system.

Unemployment among U.S. citizens has been low for a while, to the point that any U.S. citizen who is willing and able to work can find a job, though it may not be the job they want or think that they deserve. Citizens are looking for middle-income opportunities, not laboring jobs with little hope for advancement. Those jobs would be better going to immigrants who are eager to work to build a life for themselves and their families in the U.S. Throughout the history of the U.S., immigrants have worked these jobs that do not require English fluency, school connections, rich relatives, or other cronyism.

If all you care about is legal vs. illegal, the solution is to change the legal immigration system to let in more of the service and labor workers that are in demand in the labor market as legal immigrants. [/quote]

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