You're probably right about infected immigrants. But COVID-19 is enough of a problem without our importing more of it.
The flood of immigration since legal immigration was doubled to 1 million annually in the early '90s has had the same effect on a lot of job categories, many of which cannot be automated, such as hospitality and constru…
You're probably right about infected immigrants. But COVID-19 is enough of a problem without our importing more of it.
The flood of immigration since legal immigration was doubled to 1 million annually in the early '90s has had the same effect on a lot of job categories, many of which cannot be automated, such as hospitality and construction. I'm not blaming immigrants. I blame Congress for enabling ***too much*** immigration, and the Feds for not enforcing our laws, as well as states with sanctuary laws and drivers' licenses for illegal immigrants and other laws that enable illegal immigration.
You might find this Nicholas Kristof column enlightening. (But bear in mind that he's wrong about any need for tech workers from abroad--with them, its the same phenomenon of companies importing them for cheap labor, and forcing fired American workers to train their replacements, and much unemployment among US tech workers.)
You're probably right about infected immigrants. But COVID-19 is enough of a problem without our importing more of it.
The flood of immigration since legal immigration was doubled to 1 million annually in the early '90s has had the same effect on a lot of job categories, many of which cannot be automated, such as hospitality and construction. I'm not blaming immigrants. I blame Congress for enabling ***too much*** immigration, and the Feds for not enforcing our laws, as well as states with sanctuary laws and drivers' licenses for illegal immigrants and other laws that enable illegal immigration.
You might find this Nicholas Kristof column enlightening. (But bear in mind that he's wrong about any need for tech workers from abroad--with them, its the same phenomenon of companies importing them for cheap labor, and forcing fired American workers to train their replacements, and much unemployment among US tech workers.)
https://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/opinion/compassion-that-hurts.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/04/us/last-task-after-layoff-at-disney-train-foreign-replacements.html