Thoughts on Immigration:
Just to preface this I'm center-left in terms of political alignment. I believe in a nation does need to have sovereignty and secure its borders for it to exist and it's in the best for its welfare, and that they should bring in individuals that have values that are commensurate to the home nations, and that immigration shouldn't be a vector to replace the domestic population culturally or a tool to benefit corporations for cheap labor.
However, I do think that bringing motivated and talented individuals at a digestable cadence makes sense and can be mutually beneficial. A lot of people here attend reputable universities how many students are sons and daughters of first/second generation immigrants from Europe, South America, Africa, Asia..etc that contribute immensely to the humanities, engineering and the sciences. Just look at this video as examples of women who the daughter of Sri Lanka nationals who immigrated to the US, and is a co-founder of a startup based out of New York
https://twitter.com/capitalxyz/status/15780540986…
Thoughts?
I don’t believe in open borders.
Do you want to add nuance?! What do you even define as "open borders"?
Open borders is just letting everyone walk across. The Mexican border should have a wall and manpower blocking unauthorized people from coming across.
I don't think this is an issue if you have good public schools that teach the values of the country as well as the culture. Within one generation, everyone gets Americanized as has been the case with almost all immigration waves.
What I find problematic now is not immigrants. It's that our OWN schools literally teach kids to hate their country and that their culture is the product of priviledged colonialism. This is what will erode the values and culture of the country, not the immigrants.
If you want to see the people trying to turn this country upside down, take a look at your fellow Americans, not the Salvadorian cutting your grass and minding his own business.
Great point
Yea, that's true you need a cohesive element to tie a huge, varied population like United States together, and if it isn't culture, language, and legal boundaries the country will balkanize and eventually catabolize itself. I think we should teach history as accurately as possible (good and/or bad), but there shouldn't be an agenda or ideology attached to the education. Let people make their own conclusions.
Do you believe critical race theory should be taught in US schools and in the DoD?
Depends, what do you define as critical race theory ("CRT") since it seems no one can come up with a standardize definition. The way CRT is being defined by Ibram Kendi and Robin DiAngelo is destructive, racist, divisive and toxic. However, they are subsets of right-wing/republican leaders who wanted to pretend atrocious, discriminatory policies and practices of the past never happened, or if they do acknowledge it, they mitigate the severity and act like it has no effect on the present. Like the school in Texas that was using textbooks stating that transatlantic slaves were indentured servants and were paid instead of stating the reality at the time—chattel slaves.
Illegal Immigration should not be allowed, at least not for the next many decades.
When non-technical, poor, immigrants who often can't speak English come to the country, they are willing to work at significantly lower wages compared to the local population, as they are willing to accept to live in 3rd world conditions. Given that their employment arrangement (since they are illegal) is under the table, all the standard employment protections that you think of can basically be thrown out the window. Cash salary (maybe $5/hr) and throw those expenses under "operating expenses" instead of "salaries and wages".
When illegal immigrants are willing to work at $5/hr, it leads to a massive drop in the bargaining power of unskilled laborers, and hence the equilibirum wage plummets.
For those who argue "nobody wants to work", it really means "nobody wants to work at an unlivable wage" except for illegal imimgrants. Really it's a way for corporations just to juice more returns.
Legal immigration should be allowed, but on a quota basis.
The difference between legal and illegal is given the costs and the barriers of entry to get in, you typically see mostly bright individuals who come with money. Many of them start businesses which leads to more jobs being created. Furthemore, they contribute to cutting edge research in areas such as medical and tech that provide the US with a competitive advantage.
Having said that, a quota basis is extremely important because it's important to make sure wages don't stagnate or are supressed in the way that illegal immigration causes. Just because legal immigrants are often better off, doesn't mean they won't work for lower wages. With the H1B system, they often don't have much bargaining power in terms of the wage they can accept.
Additionally, things such as infrastructure, healthcare, police, fire, etc. all take time to expand. If too many people come in at once, it will lead to established systems collapsing and not being able to handle the new population load.
TLDR. Immigration is good when we bring high quality immigrants in, but even then the flow of immigrants should be monitored and regulated to prevent adverse effects.
Coherent and pragmatic perspective.
You aren't center-left then
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