What we don't need are policies that accept 95% uneducated, no skills, poverty stricken people just to get five percent that assimilate well. It's 2018 and the come one come all policy of days long gone won't work, unless you want a country that is vast majority working poor governed by their wealthy overlords. What are you, a right wing fanatic?
Didn't miss it, just don't agree with it. Wages have been flattened for the working class going on three decades. This is partially due to immigrants being willing to work long term for far less. Add in the corporate greed and it's a slave labor market for immigrants, working class blacks and whites.
Nor should the need for low skilled- often seasonal- agricultural workers be a reason/excuse to bring in permanent residents. That is what the guest worker programs are for and should be expanded. It has been a bit of joke because the borders have been open and workplaces have not been raided/inspected so why bother. And conservatives have rightly been suspicious because - well- it is just another way to get here and not leave. But that program could be set up so that the person/sponsoring employer has to post bond or something, such that if there is not documentation/certification that the person has left the country at an authorized point of entry/exit, then penalties and bounty hunting begins based on the bond. This would be good for the workers too because it allows them to go back and forth to their families in a legal manner and prevents - or helps to prevent employers from abusing the workers by taking their pay and other bad conditions/events that cannot be reported if a worker is not here legally. But you know this stuff doesn't work if you have no idea how to track someone/something once it enters the country. You know the frigging librarian in Cut Bank, Montana can wand a book out and get a daily print-out of what is overdue. FedEx knows if something is on my porch even if I am in the house and don't. BUT NO, the government is twenty years away from that. People overstay their visas and we have no idea where they are or when we may get around to thinking about. THAT'S BULLSHIT. The minute their scheduled departure date arrives but that date-field is still blank, then the system should immediately cut a work order to privately contracted bounty hunters in that area to go out and get them and get their pre-established re-imbursement. Or you can maybe get them three years later after they have cranked out two American citizens and are now worthy of unlimited compassion.
Sorry, you don't agree with...the facts? Here's some more: Immigrants' impact on the U.S. economy in 7 charts The furor over U.S. immigration tends to gloss over one thing: the impact of immigrants on the U.S. economy. About 25 million immigrants are working in the country today, filling jobs from programming to construction. (That figure includes legal immigrants, temporary residents, refugees and undocumented immigrants, but the data does not distinguish between people in different categories.) Where do most U.S. immigrants work? As public debate flares over the conditions for entering the U.S., immigrants remain a major part of the world’s largest economy. Here’s how immigrants living in America today compare with native-born people as gauged by their likelihood of holding a job, earnings and other measures. Source: OECD; 2014 data. CBS MONEYWATCH/IRINA IVANOVA 1. Immigrants participate in the U.S. labor force at a slightly higher rate than native-born Americans The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development calculated the labor force participation rate -- the percentage of working-age adults who are employed or looking for a job -- by counting the number of people in each group (native-born or immigrant) who were either working or looking for a job, relative to the size of that group in the country. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics; 2015 data. CBS MONEYWATCH/IRINA IVANOVA 2. U.S. immigrants earn consistently less than native-born workers Immigrants’ income gap with people born in the U.S. holds true for both women and men across all age groups. Young immigrants make nearly equal pay to their native-born counterparts, but the gap increases as workers age. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics; 2015 data. CBS MONEYWATCH/IRINA IVANOVA 3. More-educated immigrants earn more than their native-born counterparts Immigrants with a college degree or higher earn slightly more than native-born workers in the same category -- about 2.8 percent more, according to recent U.S. Labor Department data. Source: Small Business Administration analysis of 2010 Current Population Survey. CBS MONEYWATCH/IRINA IVANOVA 4. Immigrants are more likely to own businesses than native-born Americans An analysis from the Small Business Administration found that 10.5 percent of U.S. immigrants own a business, compared with 9.3 percent of native-born Americans. In other words, an individual immigrant is about 10 percent more likely to own a business than a nonimmigrant. Source: Small Business Administration analysis of 2010 Current Population Survey. CBS MONEYWATCH/IRINA IVANOVA 5. Immigrants start businesses at higher rates For every 10,000 immigrants to the U.S., about 62 will start a business -- more than double the rate for the native-born. Source: National Venture Capital Association; 2013 data. CBS MONEYWATCH/IRINA IVANOVA 6. Immigrant business founders have grown more important to the economy over time Immigrants were involved in founding one-quarter of the companies that went public between 1990 and 2005. Their importance has grown since then: One-third of the companies that went public between 2006 and 2012 had at least one immigrant founder. Of the 87 privately held companies currently valued at over $1 billion, 51 percent had immigrant founders. Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2015 data. CBS MONEYWATCH/IRINA IVANOVA 7. Immigrants tend to cluster in certain occupations Compared with people born in the U.S., immigrants are more likely to work in buildings and grounds maintenance, construction, computer, math or science occupations, and jobs in food preparation or service. Native-born workers are more likely to be employed in sales, business and financial operations, office support or social service jobs. © 2017 CBS Interactive Inc.. All Rights Reserved. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/immigrants-impact-on-the-u-s-economy-in-7-charts/
Can't look at all this right now, but I certainly hope that it is not another set of tard bullshit data that fails to distinguish between illegal immigrants and legal immigrants. I am gonna puke if I see one more chart that shows that immigrants are better educated than native born as a reason to support Mexican and Salvadoran illegals or why we need them. The data for illegals is VASTLY DIFFERENT.
To be fair -- it is easier to immigrate to Canada than the U.S. if you have a education (such as an IT degree) or a needed skill (e.g. oil rig workers). A good number of the people I meet in Canada tried to get into the U.S. first (and did not get selected) before moving to Canada as second choice.
The data does not distinguish between legal and "undocumented". How convenient. Of course the educated, those that come legally do better. That's a much smaller number than other categories. Small and mid sized manufacturing wages have been hit hard by this and will get worse as time goes on.