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I liked your first post but today there are educational opportunities beginning with pre K in public schools but still great disparities in achievement.  One fellow [central american] told me when in K-12 he did not take advantage of his opportunities [HS in eastern FX county] and many friends ruined their lives with gang affiliation etc.  stated should have applied himself and could have been engineer-felt somewhat caught up since was licensed master tradesman.

So absurd that many get to check Hispanic box when are from highly educated families etc.  There were no Polish check boxes in 1915.  Virtually no ESL-my dad and family really mastered English immersion style.  What we do need to do is bring back manufacturing and tech related stuff.  Get the call centers out of ie India and in places like DC and Philly and Baltimore.  [/quote]

With respect to your acquaintance who joined a gang, this problem isn't unique to recent immigrants or Latinos, as I'm sure you know...so I'm not sure what it has to do with immigration.

I don't have a strong opinion on offering affirmative action to people from rich families based on their ethnicity (and being first-generation American born to Indian immigrants, if anything I truly am subject to reverse discrimination by schools though it didn't stop me from being admitted to the best ones), but the rest of the stuff you are talking about makes very little sense.

There are still tons of tech-related jobs in the US, but it's true that some are migrating overseas due to lower costs.  Maybe lower-paid immigrants on H1B visas are replacing Americans in US-based offices, but increasingly you are also seeing Indians in India who work remotely (enabled by the internet) and earn even less than H1B holders in the US.  Same with call centers.  Are you proposing making a law that says US companies can't use the internet or foreign contractors?  And while I would love to see more traditional manufacturing back in the US, it isn't going to happen.  Newer forms of manufacturing, like 3D printing, are happening here...but they provide many fewer jobs.

I think the reality is that the average American worker was always going to be the material loser from globalization, if you define losing as a contraction in job opportunities.  We had way more high-paying jobs than almost anywhere else in the world.  That was going to happen with or without NAFTA, and you could argue that NAFTA (and the agreements that followed) made the transition to globalization easier than it would otherwise would have been.  US corporations were going to globalize...there is no credible way to dispute that.  If labor is a substantial cost, you are going to do what you can to find cheaper labor.  At best we can try to impose steep tariffs to make foreign-manufactured goods too expensive for US consumers, but in my own view all that will do is create a black market for cheaper imported goods smuggled into the US.  You cannot isolate yourself in a world where you can have a face-to-face (over video) call with someone at almost any time of day and almost anywhere on the planet.[/quote]

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