Immigration rate is high but acceptable because our economy is doing better than any other country in the world.
My issue with admitting million plus legal immigrants every years is this...majority are sponsored by a relative living in US, with no minimum levels required for education/skills/wealth. My own aunt was sponsored by her daughter, she was in her early 70’s, received lifetime benefits for supplemental social security monthly checks, medicaid, food stamps. Yet she never paid a dime in any taxes. The least gov’t should do is make the sponsoring party support the immigrant.
I would prefer immigrants who either bring in wealth or have skills in demand in the US job market. That is what New Zealand does, and in addition they require passing English proficiency test. Immigrants admitted in United States have no such requirements.
Immigration rate is high but acceptable because our economy is doing better than any other country in the world.
My issue with admitting million plus legal immigrants every years is this...majority are sponsored by a relative living in US, with no minimum levels required for education/skills/wealth. My own aunt was sponsored by her daughter, she was in her early 70’s, received lifetime benefits for supplemental social security monthly checks, medicaid, food stamps. Yet she never paid a dime in any taxes. The least gov’t should do is make the sponsoring party support the immigrant.
I would prefer immigrants who either bring in wealth or have skills in demand in the US job market. That is what New Zealand does, and in addition they require passing English proficiency test. Immigrants admitted in United States have no such requirements.
I agree with you about the English proficiency requirement. I always thought making English the national language would help to unify and promote assimilation. Growing up, everyone learned English—even if they did not speak it at home, they spoke it at school and work.
There are other Visas besides H-1B that encourage immigration for wealthy entrepreneurs or experts in their field...I think those are the people as Trump says, the “smart people we want to come”...These are the experts who I want coming here. Not to be confused with many of the the cheap-labor express foreigners trained by diploma mills. I should add that these diploma mills are expanding from just coding to clinical pharmaceutical statistics, and banking accounting...As I stated before I call it Visa Creep.
What I am concerned about are the times when our economy is not doing well? If you follow business cycles—the economy goes up and it goes down...And it will go down at some point, and when it does, what happens our workforce? What happens then to the foreign workers and US workers?