Cheap illegal labor (avoiding state and federal taxes, healthcare, social security, etc) will not help to make America great again.
I don’t understand why our side doesn’t teach that immigration was halted almost completely from 1924-1965 so that those immigrants who were already here could assimilate.
The point can be further developed that mass immigration makes capital more potent by making labor cheaper and thereby helps the rich get richer. Yet as wages stagnate, the public also tends to favor unions and redistribution via tax and welfare policies justified by class warfare ideologies. Thus, even as the rich benefit from mass immigration, their position becomes less secure as political agitation against them increases.
Japan and South Korea have done just fine without massive immigration.
Wonder how they can do so well just concentrating on their own people?
We all know why Sharma wrote his BS.
He’s Indian and he wants to legitimize his countrymen coming to the US, against the will of the Americans.
So let’s just ask him....if more people - especially more Indian people - make a great economy, how come India is still a s**thole?
Bump for later.
Diversity of skin color is not a strength.
JoMa
A quick search online reveals a very long list of articles that start with the assumption that immigration is an economic virtue and then set out to justify it. This one, focusing on Australia, did not:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-01-19/high-immigration-masks-australian-economic-decline/8193628
Among the issues they raise: suppressed wages and higher prices (particularly for housing), leading to a lower standard of living for the population as a whole.
Immigration is now just a third world sewer pipe. Everyone knows it.
what made America great were aliens who came to this country with a trade or a profession to self sustain and sponsors that were responsible for them.
All immigration should be stopped!
Immigration that occurs at levels beyond the countries ability to assimilate will assuredly not make America great again. It will achieve just the opposite.
I entered the labor force in the '50s. Back then I heard "Sweat the machine, not the man."
When electric toothbrushes first came out, some foreigner quipped, "Leave it to the Americans. They put a motor on everything."
The type of people that still want to migrate to the US are exactly the type the country does not need. Stop immigration altogether.
10-year MORATORIUM on ALL new applications for citizenship. Today.
It is supposed to do the opposite, and it does.