Of course, the real drive for immigration limits has always been to keep out “others.” I fear it will be solved in the modern world only with biometric IDs for everyone. But the anti-immigrant crowd in the US _ historically a uniquely immigrant country _ has adopted a strange twist, saying we should only allow in highly skilled people like doctors and scientists.
This is a very odd attitude when you consider it. Generally immigration to this country has been “poor huddled masses” totally unskilled. They worked at awful hard jobs nobody else wanted to do in hopes of a better life and dreams of a future. We still have lots of jobs nobody wants to do. Waves of German, Irish, Italians _ peasants or equivalent _have built the United States.
The only “people” who truly want skilled immigrants are the corporations, who can use these more compliant and less well paid professionals to keep down the positions and wages of the native-born and educated. As a programmer, I saw these tactics for years, as companies pleaded for high-tech immigrants because of a “labor shortage” that only existed because they did not want to pay more.
Most people, in fact, should want only unskilled workers to compete in the marketplace. Anyone in a better position_ even including only speaking English better _should be happy to have an unskilled person _ who is no threat to their job _ washing the dishes or doing the other necessary menial chores. As the poorest have done throughout the ages.
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