Posted on 08/13/2015 1:17:17 AM PDT by Rummyfan
Americans have got to drop their weird verbal tic of inserting "illegal" into any discussion of immigration.
After I pointed out on "Fox News" that the dispute between Sen. Rand Paul and Gov. Chris Christie over spying on "Americans" was entirely a problem of immigration, "Fox Insiders" put these two sentences together:
"[Coulter] explained that halting illegal immigration would help solve other key issues such as the economy and national security. 'Don't make terrorists citizens through immigration, and we'll have a lot less of a national security problem,' Coulter said, pointing to the attacks at the Boston Marathon and in Chattanooga." (Emphasis added.)
Were those guys illegals? Did Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev swim across the Rio Grande to get to Boston? Did Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez hire coyotes to sneak him across the border so he could shoot four Marines and a sailor in Chattanooga?
No. Our government invited them in.
Some of our other beloved legal immigrants include:
-- Anwar al-Awlaki, the man whose death in Afghanistan provoked Rand Paul to stage a 13-hour filibuster in opposition to the use of drones against -- I quote -- "American citizens";
-- the Fort Hood shooter, Nidal Malik Hasan;
-- the attempted Times Square bomber, Faisal Shahzad;
-- all those Somali immigrants living in Minnesota, bloc-voting for Al Franken before flying to Syria to fight with ISIS;
-- Sirhan Sirhan;
-- the 9/11 hijackers;
-- the Pakistani terrorist Daood Sayed Gilani, American anchor baby, responsible for four days of bombings in Mumbai in 2008;
-- the New York subway bomb plotter, Najibullah Zazi;
-- Pakistani terrorist Aafia Siddiqui, who shot a U.S. Army captain in 2010;
(Excerpt) Read more at anncoulter.com ...
Go Annie.
Sing it Loud.
I have posted articles that prove HiB visas are not needed.
Its Chamber of Ho’s who want cheap tech workers, and won’t pay American’s salaries. Its phoney BS , we have lots of STEM people with experience and comming out of colleges.
This is my only issue with Ted Cruz. He should read the articles.
Ann has good solid research and we can stop all immigration while we get the 94 million Americans out of the workforce back in jobs and paying taxes again.
There are probably many who disagree with you. Most realistic and pragmatic people will say that the H1B is needed, and the issue is about how many H1B visas, or what is the H1B Quota.
To that end, the H1B quota should vary. When the economy expands, the quota should rise. When the economy contracts, the quota should fall.
During the IT boom of the 90s, the H1B quota rose to 190,000 and when that tailed off, the quota fell to 60,000. During the Bush years the economy gradually expanded so by 2004, 05, 06, there was a big push to raise the quota. But it was successfully blocked and didn't rise.
In 2007 the economy headed south and crashed in 2008 so no one was pushing for the quota to rise. It has only been in recent years as the economy has gradually recovered that some are again pushing to raise the quota.
Whereas the H1B professional and technical visa quota is point of contention, the real problem with temporary work visas is reforming the H2A Ag worker visa, the H2B Non-Ag worker visa, and creating a 3rd low skill visa with a longer term such as 4-6 years.
She is right of course. Good immigrants who are vetted are a source of national strength. Assassin’s and malcontents that we allow in as though it were their right with no vetting are a menace v and illegals are a ticking time bomb.
US immigration policy needs to be fixed.
The GOP wants one thing, the dems want something else. The employers want one thing, the unions and immigration lawyers want something else.
The problem arises from the fact that the right wing anti-immigrant movement strengthens the democrats and weakens the GOP.
Want to find out exactly how necessary H1B workers are? Require that employers pay them the same salary that American workers would get.
Worth repeating.
H-1B, kill it. Cruz needs to get a clue.
America circling the drain.
Eat a cheeseburger, girl.
They are not immigrants they are CIAI... Criminal Illegal Alien Invaders.
By a weird quick of immigration law, fashion models are categorized as technology workers and require H1B visas to work in the US. Would you deny us Heidi Klum and Giselle Bundchen?
In so far as I'm aware, only Rick Santorum - among current GOP POTUS candidates - has proposed any significant changes in the immigration law. For starters, he would like a 25% reduction in numbers of legal immigrants.
As far as "immigrant" becoming "the new N-word", I tend to disagree with that. The left talks about immigrants all the time: the left's "N-word" is alien, and they refuse to use it in the phrase "illegal alien." No, they'd prefer "undocumented immigrant" to "illegal alien." The word "immigrant" should NOT be used for a trespasser or invader!
Alien doesn’t have to be a bad word though. Remember that lovable E.T.? No one would kick him out of the country.
In that case, Trump is sure to expand H1Bs.
No, they’re not needed. They’re not used to bring in “high-skilled” workers that we don’t have. They’re used to bring in low-level tech workers for cut-rate wages. The few people who might truly have rare skills have plenty of options to immigrate here legally without H1B. It’s a system that by definition only exists to bring in low-end tech workers who wouldn’t have the talent or means to immigrate here through normal methods. They serve only to displace available American tech workers so that companies can cut their labor costs.
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