So Mexico, Central and South America, Africa, India and China are my only choices?
Oh sure Owen, if you say so.
We should be giving priority to immigrants from Poland, Romania, The Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine, Russia, Lithuania, Hungary, Belarus, Lithuania, Estonia, Australia, England, Ireland, New Zealand, Germany, The Netherlands, Denmark, Greece, Italy and Spain.
And by the way I don't know what incentives those Eastern European governments could possibly afford to offer their citizens.
But for now, we've still got our lips planted on the buttocks of every third world crap-hole south of the Rio Grande. It ain't right, and it needs to change.
You're wrong, of course. Those European countries are sending whatever outflux they might have (which isn't much because they, too, have the demographic problem) to the incentives of the EU.
We have to have more working age workers. There are not enough working age Americans. You can't get them from Europe because the EU has the same problem.
So where are you going to get them?
What needs to be done is divide the number of immigrants we are going to allow by four, and give them out equally among the continents of Africa, Asia, Europe, and the combined Americas. Any year when a continent didn’t have enough people apply for the immigration visas allotted; those visas would be divided equally between the continents that have more people applying than visas available.
Everyone would come as a legal alien and pass a test in English and Civics before they could apply to become immigrants. After they are immigrants for 5 years they can apply to become citizens, IF, they haven’t committed any crimes, used any government paid social service, or failed to pay their bills on time.
We should do like the UAE does (or used to do) with other visas like students, tourists, businessmen, etc. They make you have a sponsor to get a visa. They give you a slip of paper when you arrive that has to be turned in to get out of the country. If that paper isn’t turned in by the expiration date, they arrest your sponsor, hold him in jail until you are found and deported, then they fine him.
They don’t have an illegal alien problem. Nobody overstays his visa.