We should favor young immigrants with many years of work ahead of them. We should favor immigrants who have demonstrated an ability to learn and work using English, which makes their future success more likely.
From Jan C. Ting
I reject the idea that any job is too hard or too dirty for American workers to do. American workers just expect and demand to be paid a decent wage.
If cheap immigrant labor is made unavailable, employers can hire Americans at a higher wage, or replace low-wage immigrant workers with technology and automation, which will create a smaller number of skilled jobs for Americans.
I personally believe that a democratic society is morally entitled to set and enforce a limit on the number of new immigrants admitted each year.
Border enforcement coupled with employer sanctions and threatening employers who hire immigration law violators is insufficient.
The DREAM Act was intended to benefit illegal immigrants who were brought here as children, the most sympathetic subset among our large illegal immigrant population.
Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.
If we're willing to accept unlimited immigration in order to keep wages low and corporate profits high, we should just say so and stop paying for all the immigration enforcement window dressing.
If we want to set and enforce a limit on immigration, we have to be willing to say no to would-be immigrants who look a lot like our own ancestors, not because there's anything wrong with them, but simply because admitting them would exceed our legal limit.
Our immigration system is not broken. We don't need, and Congress shouldn't enact, amnesty.
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