pancakes3 wrote:History lesson aside, I just question the actual motivation of moving away from birthright citizenship.
People immigrate based on economic incentives, not political ones.
odd way of glancing over that it is bad government policy steeped in bad politics that creates the economic incentives. both negatively in their own country. and positively here in our country.
And currently that policy is bad. Current policy pits the human resources of the unskilled labor emigrating here against the the existing american human resources unskilled labor.
1. immigrants compete for labor positions and over saturate the unskilled low skilled market.
2. further exacerbated by low skilled and medium skill labor becoming more and more automated.
3. creates stagnant/declining wages as employers have people competing for crumbs
^^all of which would be fine if all existing americans had good paying jobs and entitlement were minimal. But that is not the case. Many 4th, 5ht, 6th ,7th generation americans live near the poverty line or below it.
get our existing americans above poverty first!!!
Then open the door to immigration.
And anyone who cant get on board with that message doesn't care about the poor. and the poor are overwhelmingly black and brown by percentage population. Allowing too much immigration is kills their opportunities. Slow the rate of success and ascension that we typically see by the 3rd generation. (what we call the american dream is dying)
And millennials feel this most. They claim things like "real estate is dead." And want free college, and free medical. <--Simply because they can not afford it. They cant afford it because wages have not kept pace with inflation for unskilled and low skilled labor and even moderately skilled labor. While high skilled labor has almost outpaced inflation.
Because black and brown folks often end up in the un/low/moderately skilled labor forced in much higher percentages...allowing too much immigration should be considered racists policy. And existing black and brown americans should wake up and get ahead of this. Its been happening for 40 years.
What worse it the policy is also elitist. Highly skilled labor prefers less expensive lawn service, less expensive car washes, waitresses, bar tenders, maids, roofers, landscaping, and it goes further into many sectors as immigrants also work for large companies.
its weird...35 years ago i used to cut lawn for 10 per lawn. 35 years later, i pay $15 per lawn. Isn't that odd? And frankly, kids dont cut lawn anymore...grown men that dont speak english cut the lawn around all my buildings. I dont know them. I dont even know the owner of the company. I hired them 17 years ago and they just show up and cut and send me a bill each month.
Why is it our policy that our border is open? Why do politicians support that policy??
bringing immigrants in to do that work? and many other jobs like that instead of paying our teenagers more money to do the same job? Why not pay a kid down the street $25 for 1.5 hours of grass cutting?? You know...the whole village idea? Teach that american child the value of hard work, the value of earning money. The value of responsibility.
oh...and i should add that you are admitting that these people are seeking JOBS NOT ASYLUM!! But we all know that. ho hum.
