Economic recovery and healthcare reform were higher properties.
Immigration will be a benefit to the long term strength of the U.S. economy.
Agreed.
A wall combined with enforcement of current laws would likely be effective.
It was hard enough to get ACA through by the skin of its teeth with no GOP votes. Can you imagine immigration reform at the same time after years of neglect? It’s not realistic to think both could have been done at once in a short span of time.
Illegal immigration has an effect on our economy. It increases the profits of businesses that use them while decreasing the opportunities of citizens. But besides this more than two issues at a time can be handled by our representatives. I can't imagine telling my boss I can only handle two assignments at a time during the year.
I think all would agree there are record number of immigrants. Many were housed in Mexico by Trump and Covid laws so Biden gets the influx of them combined with those who are told US will be more receptive. We need solutions not complaints. We are working in other countries to dispel rumors. We need more personnel to quickly process and either send back or process claims. I understand Biden is still enforcing Title 42 installed under Trump to send back most migrants.
Challenging, but doable. They were just tickled pink to get ACA passed. So eager that it wasn't even necessary to actually read what was in it. If you don't have to read a bill to get it passed I don't see the problem with passing more than one unread bill when you have the opportunity.
Which, of course, wouldnt apply to "Some Venezuelan on the Mexican side of the wall screaming let me in", or a Mexican on the other side of the river.
...because the ACA was their number one priority and they only had a two year window. They never could have gotten two huge pieces of controversial legislation done in that short time recognizing that in the States two years is really no more than 16-18 months given your perpetual election cycle. On the other hand, the GOP had 8 years.
That’s a myth. There are always interns and others to read bill. If someone didn’t read it it was their own fault.
This is referred to as reference bias. Due to COVID-19, border encounters declined significantly in 2020.
Let's be honest... illegal immigrants aren't taking jobs that Americans want. They pay taxes. The immigration jingoism is a wanna-be crisis manufactured by right wing media.
Let's be honest. If businesses had to pay more for jobs that illegal immigrants were doing more citizens would be interested in them. Politicians are complaining about a living wage but don't seem concerned that these immigrants are being taken advantaged of.
And the prices of these goods /services would increase rather dramatically. Nobody is going to pay $20/hr to pick vegetables....
You'll have to be more specific. Most politicians would likely have no problem going after employers who target illegal immigrants.
They will be 'offering' the vaccine.So, you think Americans traveling Europe can't come home with Covid?
The DHS will be vaccinating immigrants at the S. border.
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U.S. may offer COVID vaccine to migrants crossing from Mexico -Washington Post
The Biden administration is preparing to offer coronavirus vaccines to migrants in U.S. custody along the Mexico border, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.www.reuters.com
If they have no choice but to pay $20/hr or go out of business which do you think they would do? If you check out the employment scene you'd see that businesses are offering bonuses just to get employees. The cost of doing business is always passed unto the consumers. I don't see politicians demanding a living wage being too concerned about it. You pointed out the lower wage being paid to illegal immigrants and yet you want me to be more specific.
Thanks for that chart. Just imagine how 2021 will look after the last 5 months of this year are included!!!!
Neither party wants immigration reform. If we wanted, we could put a bill forward that seals the borders (like other nations do) while simultaneously increasing legal immigration by 8x the current levels (and we need that human capital to compete with China). However, the Democrats aren't interested in strong borders and Republicans really dislike all those brown people, so nothing gets done.
And yet we keep electing the same people over and over again. If the government was ran like a business a lot of pink slips would be handed out.
This sounds great.
Absolutely and that push has already begun. State media is already on it.
They would likely seek capital investment to harness technology as a means of boosting efficiency. Every time a state increases their MW, McDonalds adds another 100 kiosks.
We are still in a global pandemic. Labor market disruption goes with the territory. Until we have vaccination levels necessary to achieve herd immunity, people will continue to be apprehensive about returning to the labor market.
Which politicians are demanding a living wage and pushing for illegal immigrant labor? I'll wait....
