You don’t think that normalizing relations with Iran and Cuba will be a terrific source for qualified, intelligent, ambitious workers who will undermine the US worker? You must trust the DC bought and paid for crowd to care about US citizens.
So so so many flaws in that statement above. First, it ignores what I was talking about, which was the narrow construct of US investment in Iran's oil fields and industry. Those jobs would be IN IRAN, period. Second, you lump Cuba in to this issue, which is so absurd it doesn't require a response. Third, you ignore the fact that if the economy of other countries was better, that fewer of them would want to come here. Fourth, you think every immigrant is taking a job that an American would otherwise have literally one to one - which is a liberal static view of economics - and fifth, your comments about the DC bought and paid for crowd is just not relevant at all to the point I was making. That's just off top of my head.....
>>>”You don’t think that normalizing relations with Iran and Cuba will be a terrific source for qualified, intelligent, ambitious workers who will undermine the US worker?”<<<
For your other post in this thread, I agree that Iranians largely are “intelligent and civilized”. But unlike Cubans coming to the USA, “Iranian workers” are not typical; It is the least of the worries.
Iranians, as a rule, are not known to be your typical workers outside Iran, e.g. ‘taxi-drivers’, or ‘waiters’.. Not saying there is none, but more exceptions in U.S. or Europe.
Average family or individual immigration from Iran to the USA significantly happened during the first decade after the Shah’s gov’t was overthrown - 1980s mostly, and early parts of 1990s. Most Iranian immigrants to, either USA or Europe from Iran. had enough cash capital outside Iran to be able to immigrate to invest or setup their own business. That actually worked to the advantage of the U.S. (bringing investment money into the country).
Those who immigrated with minimum cash capital because of having to suddenly leave much behind in Iran, due to the Mullahs’ regime, usually had/have initial support from their relatives outside Iran. In this case, these new immigrants can still get professional jobs because they were/are sufficiently educated.
Then again, the same applies to other countries like Australia. Noteworthy is that Australia has a Free Trade Agreement with the U.S. since 2005. It equally benefits Australian because the U.S. is a much bigger market provided entrants (individual, corporate or commercial) can compete.