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Brain drain to the US helps the US, yes. The key word there is the brain. What doesn't help is taking in unskilled and manual laborers; that only creates down
by vikingerik 2y ago
Brain drain to the US helps the US, yes. The key word there is the brain. What doesn't help is taking in unskilled and manual laborers; that only creates downward pressure on wages and upward pressure on housing prices and other scarce resources, even before we get to any correlation with crime.
Countries with a highly successful immigration system, notably Canada, do it by being highly merit-based, for education and professional skills. The US hasn't put together any significant plan for that. Trump briefly tried proposing merit-based immigration in his first term, but it was quickly shot down with all the usual accusations of discrimination and so on. The US kinda unofficially does it via H1-B and O-1 visas, though that's only for employment and mostly not for permanent residence.
- codexon 2y ago> Countries with a highly successful immigration system, notably Canada You probably aren't aware of this but that is definitely not the sentiment with Canadians recently. https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaHousing2/top/?sort=top&t=year https://www.reddit.com/r/CanadaHousing2/top/?sort=top&t=year
- ckdarby 2y agoCanadian here, but not speaking on half of all Canadians. We do have a highly successful immigration system, but don't have a highly successful infrastructure. There is a housing crisis. The irony is I believe in the longer term Canada will face an immigrant shortage and not a housing crisis. As a born Canadian I am seeing less & less value to immigrating to Canada unless you're coming to employed as a Uber driver/Food delivery.
- codexon 2y agoOk and what about all the people in that subreddit complaining about lack of jobs and healthcare? It's not just a housing crisis.