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Legal and illegal immigration are two wildly different beasts. The problems of illegal immigration aka undercutting of wages is a solvable one of enforcing the

Legal and illegal immigration are two wildly different beasts. The problems of illegal immigration aka undercutting of wages is a solvable one of enforcing the law (this is usually blocked by the same interests pushing the anti immigrant line). Legal immigration would be low supply high skilled workers who don't really affect much or at worst are paid minimum wage still. >This group is now starting to wake up to its plight and voting anti immigrant and against traditional labour parties which have been co opted by the progressive university elite. That's a bit of a stretch to think universities are progressive or that they're the ones calling the shots politically. The multi millionaire oligarchs pushing this and funding anti immigrant AstroTurf groups and running the usual PR firehose of BS are of course somehow "not elite" as ever.

pessimizer 5y ago
> Legal immigration would be low supply high skilled workers This isn't a requirement, this is a bad choice that one can make. There's no benefit in favoring highly-skilled workers other than that these are the workers that middle-class professionals associate with. The only reason IMO to favor highly-skilled workers in specific fields is to break professional cartels; you don't even have to favor them, just remove the artificial barriers to their employment that have been institutionalized. > That's a bit of a stretch to think universities are progressive or that they're the ones calling the shots politically. It's just sucker right-wing pseudo-populism financed by the same people who employ 99.9% of illegal immigrants. ----- edit: those people would love to make the process of legal immigration so onerous that only they themselves could navigate it easily, to make laws against illegal immigration so draconian that every undocumented worker was living in constant fear, and to route all enforcement of those laws through an regulatory agency that they have completely captured.

pessimizer 5y ago

> Legal immigration would be low supply high skilled workers This isn't a requirement, this is a bad choice that one can make. There's no benefit in favoring highly-skilled workers other than that these are the workers that middle-class professionals associate with. The only reason IMO to favor highly-skilled workers in specific fields is to break professional cartels; you don't even have to favor them, just remove the artificial barriers to their employment that have been institutionalized. > That's a bit of a stretch to think universities are progressive or that they're the ones calling the shots politically. It's just sucker right-wing pseudo-populism financed by the same people who employ 99.9% of illegal immigrants. ----- edit: those people would love to make the process of legal immigration so onerous that only they themselves could navigate it easily, to make laws against illegal immigration so draconian that every undocumented worker was living in constant fear, and to route all enforcement of those laws through an regulatory agency that they have completely captured.