Allow any immigrant with technical skills. We do not need unskilled labor. Of the 1,000,000 plus immigrants admitted every year with permanent resident visa, less than 8% have technical skills. Most are family based. US citizens sponsor their elderly parents and sign them up immediately for supplemental social security, food stamps, medicaid, and many other welfare options.
it is disgusting and only foments my hostility toward people I otherwise would have no quam with.
Technical skills? There are unemployed Americans with ALL of the requisite technical skills.
This shortage is an HR concept. By writing job requirements they make it look as if that the computer programmer must have had experience managing Yak-Milking-Robot-Software in Nepal, etc. Simply got to have it! The fact that a stray Irish Setter could learn the arcana involved in a couple of days OJT, cuts no ice with your average HR anus, who is out busily looking for the perfect AAA* Asian Transgendered Cross Dresser to beef up the Diversity Stats.
The first step in getting skilled Americans back to work is shooting every 10th HR Department Member once a week for 6 weeks. After that, even these worthless EEOC drones might get the picture. Let the people who actually need the help find it. Here.
*AAA = Affirmative Action Anus, see also Superintendent of Schools, Anytown, USA.
“Allow any immigrant with technical skills. We do not need unskilled labor.”
Meh, I don’t care much for that line of thinking. Give us your tired, your hungry, your poor. Just make them come through the front door, get a medical check, learn the basics of our American system and attest their loyalty to it.
I’ve known plenty of immigrants whose only technical skills were the ability to push a broom, or hold a paintbrush, and they contributed more to our country than most native born folks in my generation. So I say we can afford to lower the bar a little, but only for those who show respect for our laws from the outset, and don’t try to sneak in and make unreasonable demands of us.