Submitted 9 months ago by PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com to conservative@lemm.ee
https://www.cato.org/blog/why-legal-immigration-nearly-impossible
The report is a uniquely comprehensive and jargon‐free (to the extent possible) explanation of U.S. legal immigration. Contrary to public perception, immigrants cannot simply wait and get a green card (permanent residence) after a few years. Legal immigration is less like waiting in line and more like winning the lottery: it happens, but it is so rare that it is irrational to expect it in any individual case.
Good. We don’t need to be the world’s dumping grounds
Can we stop using the rest of the globe as our dumping ground then? We destroy entire countries so you can have your Walmart and then get mad when those refugees come here.
I read a book that you might find interesting, Open Borders by Bryan Caplan and Zach Weinersmith. Statistically immigrants add value to our economy, not take from it. Many parts of the world will also need more of them as the current population ages and there aren’t as many citizens being born.
Add value for whom? The companies whose wages can be lower due to a larger pool of workers or the people themselves?
"Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”
The asshole I’m replying to: “nah fuck that I hate foreigners” (probably white of European descent living in America, where white people didn’t exist until the very late 1400’s.)
Seriously, go fuck yourself.
This is the result of fear mongering and “white replacement” conspiracy theories…
(Not informing you, just saying!)
R1, Racism. Removed, 1 day ban.
We still grant hundreds of thousands of immigrant visas every year. 493,448 were granted in 2022. The problem is simply too many people too quickly.
Too many? There are 300M US citizens and we can’t handle growth by 0.15% per year? Give me a break.
Copying and pasting from a previous comment, becuase this is the exact same thing.
The number of immigrants adding to the population is a drop in the bucket in comparison to how much the baby boomers added to the population.
The baby boomers added roughly 4.4 million a year, double that of immigrants.
And then pretty much double it again on the basis of proportion, because the U.S. was far smaller in population during the baby boomers explosion.
The baby boomers had to grow up before they could provide themselves, needing roughly 15 years before they could begin to provide for themselves. Immigrants on the other hand are typically adults, or families with parents already providing for their children.
If we could handle an explosion of population of baby boomers, we can handle the comparatively much smaller, much more able bodied and self providing immigrants.
And the already manageable numbers will die down again soon provided we stop raping central and latin america. The U.S. played a huge part in causing this issue. It’s only fair that we play part in handling the fallout.
That was during the biggest economic boom in American history, and we are suffering from their impact today
OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Full agree on all of this. Reduce red tape and increase legal immigration a lot to free up the system to refocus on actually stopping the people we don’t want.
Credit to Cato for publishing the truth when really neither party has been up for discussing the nuance on this.
wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Yep. Focus on what we need for immigrants and make it easier for them to come.
We need people to pick vegetables. Give them a path to come legally.
Both parties are guilty of making it difficult
jimbolauski@lemm.ee 9 months ago
How do we determine what we need. There’s a shortage of legal vegetable pickers but is that due to the wages or small worker pool. Would stopping the illegal hiring practices force wages up and more people would pick vegetables?