Re: If Immigrants Terrify You, Then Here's 3 Simple Facts To Calm Your Frightened Bra
(1) How do you know "the needs of the country"? You have a crystal ball that tells you how many computer programmers or housemaids Country X will need five, ten, twenty years from now? What's wrong with "unregulated" migration of people eager to work, according to the old good market supply and demand?
(2) For better or worse, this is a USA-centric forum. When most people here talk about "immigration", they don't think about a Polish scientist, an English journalist, or even a Vietnamese shrimper boat captain. This is, primarily, about the mass immigration of Mexicans into the US of A, legal and "illegal". Now, anything "mass" will always come with plenty of negatives, but it is crucial that outsiders (Europeans, e.g.) understand: We are not talking about boatloads of bewildered, culturally alien war refugees, or some other artificial influx of people incompatible with our society: this "mass immigration" was requested, demanded, facilitated by our own, American society. They come here to work, and we do need this work done. We do need these people, period. And they do need us. What on Earth is wrong with that?
(1) It is very easy to know what the country needs in terms of satisfying the labor market. The UK needs doctors. Why? Because they look at the number of doctors in the country (you know that they are doctors because when they pay taxes on income, their income and profession and where they work is listed) and look at the number of people graduating med school, finishing their 3years residency and then they look at the total number of people needed to fill all the medical needs of people... and they deduce if that number is satisfied or, as in the case of the UK, it isn't.
You can't look at everything, of course, like housemaids. But then again, those aren't jobs that are crucial the growth of the economy or make up a big deal of the labor market and hence, the income from taxes to the state.
You can also look at trends in the labor market. For instance, 2012 was a major year for app developers. You compile some data and see how much of the "app market" pie was made in each country. And the countries who take an interest in having good paying jobs in this market for the future will take steps to make sure that their share of the pie gets bigger in the next year.
(2) If you look at the unemployment figures, latinos are in the 9-10% group of people who are unemployed. The second highest unemployment rate after african americans. But that is from people who are registered latinos in the country. SO not illegal immigrants. Nobody knows what the unemployment is among illegal immigrants.
If you look at this:
Illegal Immigrant Unemployment Rate at 10% of Estimated 11.1 Million - Topeka Government | Examiner.com
speculations are that 10% or more are unemployed. Now of course, you can never know that for sure. There is no way to check for that. It's speculation. It could be bigger or smaller. You just don't know because they leave little to no paper trail.
And what do the people who are unemployed do? They become radicalized and join La Raza and other gangs that do drugs and kill people.
So.... mass immigration is not going to fill in the work slots that "we need the work done". It's going to fill unemployment benefits lines and gang memberships or worse, become part of the human trafficking industry, either as members or as victims. And again, because there is no way to account for them, you just wake up one day with a problem on your hands that if you had secured the border, wouldn't have been there to begin with.
In Europe, many countries have seasonary work permits issues to companies who need help from outside the country to deal with their labor demands.
In Austria, there are seasonary work permits issued to tourist companies and hotels to hire people from outside Austria, legally, with contract, for the duration of the winter tourist season. Why? Because there is need for extra work. And people who go to work there go to work according to a contract. No risk involved on anyones' part and everyone is accountable.
In Spain, there are huge seasonary work permits issued for people to go and work during the summer and autumn for crops like strawberries, citrices, grapes, etc. People go there with a contract and a work permit, do the job, no risk involved on anyones' part, all are happy. Then they go home.
And there are countless such examples.
Why am I saying: no risk involved? Because if you're a dumbo and you go there without a contract and without a work permit, especially as a woman, you risk ending up in less expected circumstances. prostitution rings and other human trafficking things... or worse.
So there is no reason why the USA can't have such programs and secure the border if the "work needs to be done" and there are no people in america who can do the work.