The RAISE Act...

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[Original Mountaineer1]

I think there has to be a logical balance to immigration and should be driven by social and economic needs.

Your graph plus the other posts on this topic implies that legal immigration over the last 50 years is too high. Our unemployment rate is 4.4%. How has legal immigration hurt this country or this economy? We face an ever growing shortage of doctors and highly skilled IT professionals. We are likely to face in the near future severe shortages of unskilled labor to fill unwanted, low paying jobs. (and no, Americans won't work in chicken processing plants or pick crops.) We currently see decent-paying factory and service jobs go unfilled due to a lack of applicants that pass a pee test. We need a well-constructed plan to balance immigration to US needs and not one based on keeping out the less educated, blue collar types.

 

[DvlDog4WVU]

I think there has to be a logical balance to immigration and should be driven by social and economic needs.

Your graph plus the other posts on this topic implies that legal immigration over the last 50 years is too high. Our unemployment rate is 4.4%. How has legal immigration hurt this country or this economy? We face an ever growing shortage of doctors and highly skilled IT professionals. We are likely to face in the near future severe shortages of unskilled labor to fill unwanted, low paying jobs. (and no, Americans won't work in chicken processing plants or pick crops.) We currently see decent-paying factory and service jobs go unfilled due to a lack of applicants that pass a pee test. We need a well-constructed plan to balance immigration to US needs and not one based on keeping out the less educated, blue collar types.

Americans will do those jobs when you cut the welfare and other ******** back and start forcing them to earn a wage as opposed to being handed one.

 

[Original Mountaineer1]

Americans will do those jobs when you cut the welfare and other ******** back and start forcing them to earn a wage as opposed to being handed one.

You know how many young males refuse to work and live in the basements of their parent's, mooch off of their working girlfriends, or live with 4-5 buddies and make enough waiting tables to live? We can't even get American men to work as landscapers or work in construction in many areas. I don't know how you change that dynamic

 

[eerdoc]

Why would anyone with even half the Nation's average IQ oppose the act? Perfectly reasonable and fits right in with the Democrat narrative regarding contributions made to our economy by immigrants (they argue, even those coming illegally). They should be proud to support an act that even further guarantees that immigrants will have a great chance of assimilating and becoming quite productive members of the American society.

 

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