Posted on 05/15/2019 10:20:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Trump is set to unveil an immigration plan that would vastly change who is allowed into the United States.
Trump will present the plan in a speech from the White House Rose Garden Thursday afternoon.
The new plan would focus on reducing family-based immigration to the U.S. in favor of employment-skill-based immigration.
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There are times that I despair and feel that we’ll never be able to stop the slide toward the loss of our nation.
If you look across Europe, a number of political figures have long suggested this idea, and it’s gone nowhere. One German figure wanted implement part of this...but his idea was to bring 18-year-olds in....give them two to four years of training or education (free of charge), then qualify them.
Presently, all the system delivers to you are a large number of ‘Juans’ who might have a 7th-grade education and no skills beyond cutting grass, flipping burgers, or stocking shelves.
Bout time...
“The plan, according to a senior administration official, addresses six issues:
Securing the border: Finishing the border wall
Protecting American wages: Stemming the flow of low-wage labor
Attracting and retaining the best and brightest immigrants
Prioritizing nuclear families: It would limit the family members who can come to the country to children and spouses
Importing labor for critical industries
Preserving humanitarian values: Keep the asylum system, but limit it
The formula currently for who comes to the country is 12% skill-based, 66% with ties to family members and 22% humanitarian, or asylum-seekers.
Trump would change that calculation to 57% skill, 33% family, 10% humanitarian. To determine who is a highly skilled immigrant, people would be awarded points based on their education and their language proficiency.
But the number of green cards would stay the same at approximately 1.1 million per year.”
The problem here is that it doesn’t really matter what laws they propose or pass, they get ignored anyway. It’s like gun laws. They only affect the law abiding. Until they get serious on going after employers nothing will change no matter what they pass.
Your concern is valid, but in Trump’s case it’s the other way around. His biggest obstacle right now IS the law. He’d enforce it to a T, but it currently has so many stupid loopholes that it is very ineffective at maintaining our identity as s sovereign nation.
Re: Attracting and retaining the best and brightest immigrants
Most of the best and brightest live in Western Europe, Japan, the wealthy Persian Gulf countries, and the English speaking countries.
When they come here to attend our elite universities, almost all of them go home after graduation because the standard of living in their home country is the same as or better than the USA.
In addition, unless they have truly elite skills, they leave the USA because they have to compete against thousands of second tier Chinese, Asian Indian, and Eastern European STEM students who are all chasing Green Cards.
PLEASE DON'T DO THAT TO US PRESIDENT TRUMP.
No worries, Kushner, before even negotiating with his fellow Democrats, plans to double the category that includes “diversity” immigrants, from 11% to 22% (and again before negotiation, the total # will remain the same).
This is the proposal's biggest flaw. Back in 1990 or 1991, the annual quota on immigration visas was doubled. There was no real need for increasing this quota at that time, so the first change to the regulations on legal immigration should have been scaling total quotas and green cards back to pre-1990's numbers.
When they come here to attend our elite universities, almost all of them go home after graduation because the standard of living in their home country is the same as or better than the USA.
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Our farmers need ppl to work their fields. Not to be elitist, but we also need fruit pickers, field workers- uneducated hard workers.
Any sound immigration bill should consider an immigrant's point of origin and potential to assimilate into US society as a criterion - this the case prior to 1965 when we prioritized immigrants of European origin. However, since this bill doesn't even deal with the problem of doubled immigration/green card quotas set in 1990, that would be expecting too much - especially from the mind of Javanka.
If the farmers wern't so greedy they would pay Americans to pick fruit. It would raise the cost of fruit buy about a penny or two on the dollar, if that.
So we wind up with the dregs who are just here for a green card regardless of country of origin.
Too many people, even conservatives, have taken the mantra of “work Americans won’t do” as if it were fact rather than propaganda. They ignore the fact that the presence of legal and illegal cheap immigrant labor has turned that into a self-fulfilling prophecy, by reducing wages and working conditions to Third World levels that indeed no Americans would accept. Raise wages and improve working conditions to what they were when Americans did that work, and Americans will start doing those jobs again.
Oh, are they doing away with H-1B, H-2A, and H-2B visas?
The average IQ in most Arab countries is about 85. Their wealth comes from squatting on oil, not brainpower, so putting them on par with Japan, where the median IQ is about 105, or Western Europe, where it's around 100, is a non-starter. There isn't much in the way of worthwhile science being done by Arabs, at least not Muslims ones, be they rich or poor.
But the number of green cards would stay the same at approximately 1.1 million per year.
Doesn't add up - there aren't anywhere near that many "best and brightest immigrants."
Slash immigration ... hire American!
We need a 20 year moratorium on nearly all immigration into the US except under the most extraordinary circumstances to be decided on a case by case basis under very strict criteria.
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