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The main problem with that scheme is that it is designed to channel people to where he and the President WANT them... as opposed to where the United States NEE

• pbhjpbhj 12y ago
  From a 'rate of employment in the population' perspective surely you don't want people immigrating who will replace native workers (or indeed any worker currently in post)? What's the benefit to the country if a new worker from abroad replaces a current worker but at a lower wage if that means the person 'usurped' needs state assistance or becomes under-employed (and bumps someone else from work to benefit-reliance)? Sure business owners probably benefit but such benefit seems pretty localised. How about if you let a lot of foreign workers come in who are well skilled and they flood a field in such a way that no students leaving college in that field can get a job. The incoming worker likely can accept lower wages which local [likely] debt-laden students can't. The field falls flat - the local population stop training in that field and you've either got a future skill crisis or a long-term reliance on immigrant workers. If you want to preference native/endemic population over immigrants at all then I think you need to be very specific in the immigration you allow.