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Originally Posted by Guest
Here are the problems as I see them. Unskilled immigrants, legal or illegal currently do much needed work that would otherwise either go undone, or employer would have to pay increased wages to attract labor. How many Americans do you know who would be interested in going From place to place, following the harvest to pick produce for minimum wage? Say goodbye to low prices for produce.
If only skilled workers are allowed in they will compete for jobs currently coveted by many Americans, which would cause those jobs to either be filled by immigrants, or the wages lowered by supply and demand. A majority of trump supporters do not understand these disruptive market forces and support any immigration ban mostly out of racial or religious bias. Further, illegal immigrants are ineligible for government social welfare benefits.
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I guess it is worth repeating one more time that the proposed law is about
permanent legal immigrants and is
not about
seasonal migrant farm workers who are allowed into the country to harvest crops, but are
not on a path to citizenship. Seasonal migrant farm workers enter, legally, under a H-2A Visa.
There are two reasons for selecting English speaking immigrants with job skills, as the proposed law specifies.
1. One is that they do not go on welfare after they arrive, so do not swell our welfare rolls as many legal immigrants do now.
2. The other is that they do not displace our lowest wage earners, pushing these earners onto our welfare rolls.
Your concern about legal immigrants with job skills competing with our citizens with similar job skills is touching, but you have ignored that
the plan is also to authorize half as many legal immigrants as is currently authorized. So this is more like a plan to replace retiring skilled workers rather than displacing those who are job seekers or currently employed.
Your remark about an "immigration ban" seems out of place in a thread discussing a proposed law on legal immigration, not a ban, and has a gratuitous smear about racial and religious bias.
Carl in Tampa