If some of those 18% were skilled enough to do the high-tech work that most jobs now require.
There’s a big gap between available jobs and available workers because we have a large, uneducated, unmotivated underclass.
Not everyone, certainly. Lots of good people out of work right now, because of terrible economic policy.
These are times when a high school diploma, a generic college degree, or basic competency just isn’t enough.
You’re right, I’d let highly skilled workers in. But proponents of “guest worker” programs are generally talking about Mexicans with 8th grade educations.
As if an advanced nation with over 300 million people with hard science/math/engineering universities like Johns Hopkins, MIT, Georgia Tech, Illinois, CalTech, Purdue., etc. has a shortage of high-tech workers and needs to import from the third-world. Sure.
That's just pro mass-immigration, cheap labor propaganda.