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Immigration has always been a 'superpower' of the US that other countries struggled to keep up with. Having lots of hard working, talented people moving to your

by davidw 4y ago

Immigration has always been a 'superpower' of the US that other countries struggled to keep up with. Having lots of hard working, talented people moving to your country benefits everyone.

FredPret 4y ago
US Immigration is fuelled by the immense drawcard of becoming an American, not by any great achievement in it’s immigration policies. You’d get much more & better candidates with a logical system. Source: I’m an immigrant. I ended up in Canada for unrelated reasons, but the system in Canada is much better. Tough, but fair, mostly transparent, and even kind in some ways. In the US it’s so byzantine by comparison.
- davidw 4y ago
  Agree completely: the people coming here are the strength, whereas our janky system gets in the way of that.
- manojlds 4y ago
  > drawcard of becoming an American Which is what the person you are replying to meant anyway.
FpUser 4y ago
Immigration to many other countries is not that much prettier
- aeyes 4y ago
  In what way exactly? In most countries the only requirement is to have a work contract. No higher education, no rules that employers must show that they can't find local talent for the position, no limitations on the number of immigrants per year. I am an immigrant myself (not in the US), the only paper I needed was a work contract. After a year of working I got permanent residence with no further requirements attached, it's no longer tied to having a work contract.
  - mutatio 4y ago
    UK for example is rather draconian, I've even seen difficulties for friends who've married Americans and said partners have had to jump through hoops. From my limited knowledge Canada and Germany have much more rational immigration systems.
onetimeusename 4y ago
There used to be much tighter rules on immigration and many fewer people coming even while the US was the largest economy of the world. So I don't think it has always been a superpower of the US. Japan also had the second largest economy for decades and a very tight immigration system. China will overtake the US on economy soon if it hasn't already and they have very tight immigration also. We also overproduce PhDs right now and elite-overproduction is something that seems to be very destabilizing.

by davidw 4y ago

Immigration has always been a 'superpower' of the US that other countries struggled to keep up with. Having lots of hard working, talented people moving to your country benefits everyone.

FredPret 4y ago

US Immigration is fuelled by the immense drawcard of becoming an American, not by any great achievement in it’s immigration policies. You’d get much more & better candidates with a logical system. Source: I’m an immigrant. I ended up in Canada for unrelated reasons, but the system in Canada is much better. Tough, but fair, mostly transparent, and even kind in some ways. In the US it’s so byzantine by comparison.

davidw 4y ago
Agree completely: the people coming here are the strength, whereas our janky system gets in the way of that.
manojlds 4y ago
> drawcard of becoming an American Which is what the person you are replying to meant anyway.

FpUser 4y ago

Immigration to many other countries is not that much prettier

aeyes 4y ago
In what way exactly? In most countries the only requirement is to have a work contract. No higher education, no rules that employers must show that they can't find local talent for the position, no limitations on the number of immigrants per year. I am an immigrant myself (not in the US), the only paper I needed was a work contract. After a year of working I got permanent residence with no further requirements attached, it's no longer tied to having a work contract.
- mutatio 4y ago
  UK for example is rather draconian, I've even seen difficulties for friends who've married Americans and said partners have had to jump through hoops. From my limited knowledge Canada and Germany have much more rational immigration systems.

onetimeusename 4y ago

There used to be much tighter rules on immigration and many fewer people coming even while the US was the largest economy of the world. So I don't think it has always been a superpower of the US. Japan also had the second largest economy for decades and a very tight immigration system. China will overtake the US on economy soon if it hasn't already and they have very tight immigration also. We also overproduce PhDs right now and elite-overproduction is something that seems to be very destabilizing.