someone wrote an comment about this subject and I want to share with you.
"I am curious about Americans view on legal immigration - especially the ones against it. Immigrants have been such as asset to this community and I feel the backlash towards legal immigrant community has been due to other systemic factors and govt failures wrt to education and healthcare. Economic distress leading to populist uprising. Some facts we all know are true
1. US is an aging population (like Canada and other Western Europe countries) Demographers are freaking out as it reached its historic low in July this year. It means US needs immigrants and productive young workforce so that it can sustain its taxes, medicare & social security benefits (meant only for citizens - very conditional for immigrants). Legal immigrants fill that gap well. If that is stopped, quite obvious Greece will happen in 20 years. Do you want your SS and MC to be screwed in 20 years?
2. Legal immigrants contribute upto 1 billion of social security and medicare taxes. 37% of silicon valley workers are immigrants. Not only do they pay high taxes but also contribute to trickle down economy since they call US their home.
3. The best and the brightest get attracted to American dream. How will US benefit if they give the message “well US doesnt care and you are not welcome”?
4. 40% colleges have already seen a dip in their international admissions this year. Reasons being anti immigrant sentiment coupled with competition from Canada & Australia. Is that good?
5. How will stopping/curbing legal immigration create more jobs? Why wont profit mongers like Fb/Google just move jobs to location outside US with better talent and low pay? We see that, dont we? When an employee’s visa expire in big companies, the employee is transferred to Canada/China/India, have never seen that position being backfilled in US. US loss - point 2 above. Also, there are enough jobs for everyone and unemployment rates are dropping.
6. America has been the country of immigrants and has benefitted tremendously. Do you want that definition to change with protectionist and non competitive policies?"
For this, I disagree with the Trump's Immigration policy .
Benefits of immigration are always seen in the long run but the government and most companies are looking only at short run benefits.
https://us.teamblind.com/article/Immigration-Cxut7fL8
For this, I disagree with the Trump's Immigration policy . Benefits of immigration are always seen in the long run but the government and most companies are looking only at short run benefits. https://us.teamblind.com/article/Immigration-Cxut7fL8