“I’m pro-immigrant” is the flip side of “I’m not racist” in the mindless programming of the American mentality. I watched the Republican candidates debate last time, and they were all terrified that someone would think they were against wholesale immigration, parroting the idiocy about “we are an immigrant nation”. With millions of Americans out of work, you would think that at least ONE candidate would stand up and remind the nation that each immigrant requires a job or taxpayer money which means that an American has to give up a job (since jobs are scarce) or his money.
My feeling is that not being pro-immigrant is not the equivalent of being anti-immigrant.
Personally, I think we have too much legal immigration in this country. I think our government these past years has been trying demographically manipulate the make up of this country, frankly.
I also believe that this current government is derelict in their duty to the nation as whole in allowing the definition of “refugee” to be abused in the approval for many immigrants to this country who have been schooled in ways to get accepted.
Additionally, this government does not do due diligence in forcing employers to conclusively prove an H1-B immigrant is their sole recourse to fill needed positions.
Lastly, this current government (and even past Republican controlled administrations) have forsaken the original requirement for immigration in that someone, a sponsor relative or the immigrant himself, must swear that the immigrant will not become a public burden (this was done when my wife came here in 1976 - I had to complete an affidavit to that effect).
I am not anti-immigrant. I only want to ensure there is real value added to this country and that the process was fair and unbiased - without political maneuvering.
““I’m pro-immigrant” is the flip side of “I’m not racist” in the mindless programming of the American mentality. I watched the Republican candidates debate last time, and they were all terrified that someone would think they were against wholesale immigration, parroting the idiocy about “we are an immigrant nation”. With millions of Americans out of work, you would think that at least ONE candidate would stand up and remind the nation that each immigrant requires a job or taxpayer money which means that an American has to give up a job (since jobs are scarce) or his money.”
Exactly right. Jeff Sessions appears to be the only one who is willing to state the obvious. The jobs Big Business cannot oursource to another country they try to insource—importing teeming millions of third-worlders (who will work for lower wages) to replace American workers.
The American people, as uninformed as they are,. might actually understand what you say here. But who will tell them?
Furthermore, unemployment and underemployment is highest among unskilled and semi-skilled workers, who do precisely the types of jobs that the illegals do. It also gives the lie to the mantra that "illegals do the jobs Americans won't do," when there are millions who are trying to get those jobs. What it really means is that Americans won't do these jobs for Third World wages.
There's also the fact that our emergency rooms are clogged with illegals who use the ER as all-purpose free clinics, and expense that gets passed on to the rest of us via healthcare providers and insurers.
It's hilarious to hear liberal Democrats go around pretending to be "friends of the worker" and "friends of the poor" when they (and their pro-cheap labor GOP collaborators) want to flood the country with illegal immigrants. Evidently, accelerating America's changing ethnic and cultural demographic trumps being a "friend of the working man" for Democrats, just as cheap labor trumps conserving our identity as a nation for establishment Republicans.