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The challenge with the US is that all talk of immigration focusses on illegal immigrants, rather than highly skilled and educated immigrants. It's unfortunate
by volandovengo 14y ago
The challenge with the US is that all talk of immigration focusses on illegal immigrants, rather than highly skilled and educated immigrants.
It's unfortunate that the Obama administration won't separate these two kinds of immigrants since they fear in doing so, they won't be able to get comprehensive immigration reform passed.
Other countries recognize the value of highly educated immigrants who want to create companies. Canada, for example, just announced it's startup visa specifically targeting immigrants who want to move to the country to start a company.
http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/1/4170022/canada-startup-visa-program-challenges-silicon-valley-immigration http://www.theverge.com/2013/4/1/4170022/canada-startup-visa...
- krschultz 14y agoNegotiating 101 is to always try and do the whole thing at once rather than piecemeal. If you do the parts that everyone agrees to, there's nothing in common to build around for the hard stuff later. Also in general, just doing the popular stuff leads to big problems later (that's how we ended up with low taxes and high spending, nobody wants to do either of the hard parts of balancing a budget).
- Kudzu_Bob 14y agoThe whole point, of course, is to open the country to massive immigration under the guise of letting in a comparative handful of skilled immigrants. That way the Republican business interests get lower wages in their meat-packing plants and so on while the Democrats swell their ranks with impoverished voters. It's a win-win!