concordtom said:
iwantwinners said:
Sure, he's failed on his main campaign promise: immigration. You reap what you sow. (Congress isn't helping)
I think everyone agrees that any nation should be able to control it's borders.
As you've mentioned "Immigration" as a policy important to you several times, what type of action or policy regarding to immigration would you like to see?
It' important to the country, the economy, wages, and minorities and immigrants, particularly the low skilled ones.
It's very simple. Getting a visa here would be like applying to Harvard, Stanford, Cal, UCLA and the like. They take the best and brightest, students that can demonstrate a skill set that will benefit their university and their community. They take students based on the university's needs -- which departments need X # of students? That's how many they'll admit. No taking HS drop outs to fill a quota -- we have Evergreen St colleges for that (3rd world countries).
If we have 5 million accountants already here and we have 4 million accountant positions, no visas to accountants. We already have 1 million unemployed accountants. As someone once said, we are not obligated, nor is it moral (quite the opposite), to take on the unskilled, uneducated push-cart operators of peasant cultures from 3rd world countries just because we share a border with them, people who are barely literate in their own language nevermind ours, and will soak up the welfare rolls. There are enough taco trucks in L.A. and enough failing drop outs in LAUSD.
This has been made controversial despite it being more or less common practice around the world. Look at mexico's immigration policy. they don't want other country's peasants.
Opposers will often cite low wages for immigrants as a positive when these are the same people fighting for raising minimum wage because current wages are "oppressive". When there aren't any people willing to pick your vineyards for $9/hr under the table, wages go up (and so does inflation and the cost of goods, but so it goes).