Posted on 02/15/2015 5:21:29 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Two very astute readers have responded to my post about Scott Walker’s position on amnesty by arguing that Walker’s bigger problem is his apparent preference for seemingly unlimited legal immigration. Walker has said, for example:
"I don’t care whether it is from Mexico or India or Germany or Ireland or anywhere else around the world, if we have people who want to come here and work hard and live the American dream, we should embrace those people."
Taken literally, Walker’s statement obviously goes too far. As Neil Munro has pointed out, a Gallup poll indicates that at least 138 million low-skilled or high-skilled people in China, Latin America, India and Africa want to immigrate to the United States.
The U.S. clearly cannot welcome this many immigrants. I’m hoping that, as Walker hones his position on immigration, he will make it clear that there should be limits on legal immigration.
I also hope that Walker will make clear that the U.S. shouldn’t welcome everyone who has a university degree or even an advanced degree. As one reader warns, this approach would quickly commoditize U.S. graduates and professionals thus seriously threatening America’s upper-middle class.
Both readers note that Scott Walker isn’t the only Republican contender who has been too quick to embrace the significant expansion of visas for foreign professionals. In fact, all of the most prominent contenders — Walker, Bush, Rubio, Cruz, and Paul — appear to have.
Rubio, for example, has co-sponsored legislation that would expand the number of guest-workers for the tech industry. Its premise is that the U.S. suffers from a shortage of high-tech workers, a dubious proposition. Indeed, companies like Microsoft have been laying off such employees.
The debates among Republican presidential contenders will feature a sharp clash of views on what to do about illegal immigrants. Let’s hope there’s also a serious clash on the issue of legal immigration.
The bloom is off this flower.
To me, it’s his one big problem. If he can see this issue properly he’d be the guy. Not sure if he will get it right and gfet’off the Chamber of Commerce wagon.
Maybe I’m just ignorant of the basics. But never understood about this need for H1b visa tech workers.
If we have a shortage of tech workers or other workers for that matter, why aren’t we training our own citizens to fill such jobs?
I’m perhaps ignorant about lower level jobs too. Why are so many hotel.maids foreigners? We have millions of unemployed who could fill such jobs very soon, as being a hotel worker is a low skill sort of job. We are not taking about years of training and special skills to clean houses or hotel rooms.
“I don’t care whether it is from Mexico or India or Germany or Ireland or anywhere else around the world, if we have people who want to come here and work hard and live the American dream, we should embrace those people.”
What about Syria? Iran? Iraq? Pakistan? Yemen? Palestine? Saudi Arabia? Somalia?
Scott, You’ve lost me.
And I'm fairly confident he won't try to do it by E.O.
We don’t have a shortage of STEM jobs, its a lie!! They just want cheap labor of STEM jobs. They hire them overseas on these visas for so many months or a year or two and then dump them after that. There’s plenty of Americans that can do those jobs
The same thing you do with anyone caught committing a crime; deal with them as they are caught.
Great article.
Legal immigration is killing us because we are accepting massive numbers. The ones not going on welfare are taking jobs from Americans by working for less, thereby depressing wages. All the net jobs “created” during the Obummer regime have basically gone to immigrants. What jobs Bill Gates, Mark Suckerberg, and their ilk can’t export, they try to fill by import.
We need to seal the border and cut legal immigration drastically.
I still think too many of you are reading too much into what Gov. Walker said about amnesty. I agree with him, people who want to come here and become loyal hardworking American citizens should be allowed to come just as our ancestors did. I see nothing in his remarks that suggests he supports floods of immigrants illegally coming here to be supported by the American taxpayer. Look at his accomplishments in Wisconsin for heaven’s sake. This guy is amazing — and there is absolutely no question about his citizenship. Fact is, you Cruz fanatics (don’t get me wrong I love Cruz) is that he is not a natural born American citizen.
So as long as we like the “cut of his jib” and feel he’s electable the issues don’t really matter? Oh, okay. Here I thought this was something of a conservative website.
He DOES see it right, people just won’t listen to what he says and drop this nonsense.
I like walker a lot, he’s fighter (unlike most repyubs who are bedwetting cowards) and he has a real record of accomplishment.
BUT if he’s for Amnesty that’s a deal breaker for me. Unchecked immigration has the potential to entirely destroy the country.
Care to expand on that zot bait?
Well, you were wrong. This is a Liberal website. More Liberal than DemocRAT Underground and The Daily Kos put together. We believe in full blown amnesty, unlimited welfare, a 100 dollar an hour minimum wage and the elimination of all CO2 from the atmosphere, the water and the ground.
Lord o'mercy.
Might as well.
Did you see its “born-on” date?
Why? To misquote Niemoller:
First they came for the blue collar workers, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a blue collar worker.
Then they came for the burger flippers, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a burger flipper.
Then they came for the maids, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a maid.
Then they came for me—
and there was no one left to speak for me.
All I can figure is, foreigners work cheaper. They’ll crowd more people into one house or apartment, and it’s still better than how they lived in their home countries. Americans don’t want to live that way. Most of us don’t want to share a place with six roommates! We want to make a living wage and have benefits. There used to be the American Dream; now we are somehow made to feel guilty or selfish just for wanting these things.
The second is to give the visa to the employee rather than the employer. The employee would then be free to get employment anywhere instead of being an indentured servant to the company and their pay would rise to the market rate... which would make them less desirable and more companies would then hire US citizens.
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