We want more high skilled migrants rather than low skilled one. Flooding the market with low entry workers keeps the wages down for the lowest of earners while those on the high end of the scale can turn into job creators. At least at a much higher rate than the entry level ones. Also entry level migrants are more likely to become a burden on tax payers while that is far less likely for a highly skilled worker. I would think you would be all for this proposal?
I suggest we need to greatly curtail all types of immigration competing for American jobs, and let free-market forces within our country allow wages to approach more relative historical rates.
I had friends I grew-up with that went into the building trades as a career path, a path that would have previously allowed them to buy a house, raise a family, and eventually retire - like their blue-collar parents. If you want to do that today, be prepared to having to speak Spanish to your co-workers, while you work for a hundred bucks a day with no bennies. So I don't buy the
"we need low paid workers", excuse. Many of those low-paid construction jobs are low paying today, directly because of the low-wage migrant workers that took them - sometimes illegally. The same goes for landscaping, factories, and many other kinds of formerly "working-class" labor.
As to the need for importing high-skilled labor, I have direct experience with that, albeit quite a few years ago. I saw American software and system engineers, making good salaries (for then) of 60-85K/yr, essentially forced to train their imported Indian H1B replacements starting at 27K/yr!
Yep, those were the real salary numbers above, when this all went down. The Americans were forced to train the Indians, because they needed the additional severance settlement they got for remaining onboard through the new guy's training period. Within 3 years I saw an entire department go from only several new Indian H2B hires, to virtually entirely Indian rank & file, including a new Indian manager.
I changed careers several times, and one of them was immediately after many of us were shown the door by the actions I described above. It wasn't my sole reason to change, but it weighed extremely heavily in my decision.
So while you think we need more workers imported, I don't at this time. I'd like to see the employment market-place work in a more free fashion, in terms of hiring and wage increases. We're finally starting to see a small reversal in the long fall of American workers' wages, and it's because employment demand is pressuring it. I'd like to see it continue, rather than be further disrupted by the plutocracy that is the government-political-business establishment.
You doubt that he is trying everything he can do? Hell he shut down the government to try to address it. I think you are the left are partially right when you say it is a crisis he created though. I believe he has created the perception that we are cracking down, leading anyone who has ever been thinking about coming to come, knowing it's now or never. I also think there is only so much the executive branch can do to address this problem. It is a congressional problem that benefits both parties so there is no real congressional interest in fixing it.
I don't know. I believe I see a billionaire Reality TV star, that started a PR endeavor that snowballed into becoming an accidental Presidency. He lies and cons his being a populist, while looking out for himself and his billionaire buddies. His actions speak loudest, as he nearly immediately struck-down mandatory over-time rules, and placed his billionaire buddies in charge of the agencies that protect the citizenry. He increased H2B & H1B allotments. Why? He won't mandate E- Verify. Why?
So right now, despite all his promises and theatrics, he acts far more like a billionaire capitalist than a populist.
