Friday, July 3, 2015

immigration- the real issue we need more jobs and better real pay globally.

Our current immigration system is a mess- as we have an unofficial open border , the politicians are discussing giving amnesty to people here illegally then to make the political matters worse we have the 14th amendment giving birth right citizenship.
As a nation we need to ask what is wrong with having  an honest policy and either enforcing the laws as written or adopting an official open border policy?
The main arguments against adopting an open border policy are the following.
1.) the notion that modern immigrants don't try to adopt to the US culture. Most of the immigrants family's I have met at least the kids speak English and they try to keep the heritage of the old country as well as claim that of the US.
2.) The fear immigration will overwhelm welfare roles- this was one of the reasons that New Zealand has such  strict immigration polices -they don't let anyone in except the rich. The issue here is however is the government welfare system and not immigration.  If a program either private or public is successful it will be a hand up. One of the reasons I prefer private charities over government welfare programs is the simple fact I can go to places like Charity watch  and give my money to what ever program I believe is the most effective at helping people.
3.) depressed wages- When ever you have to many people and not enough jobs you can expect depressed wages the best way to improve the situation would be more jobs. The only way that will happen is to have more business opening up and possibly growing- this is why in my posts on the minimum wage I talk about the importance of regulatory, tax, regulatory tort and monetary reform.
There are regulations that make it hard to start a new business like a city that only has a limited number of taxi licences and others that make it expensive to hire the 50th employee both sets of regulations form a tag team against the poor after all some rich person might be interested in taking some large gamble that will shake up some given industry but feel unable to do so.
Going from country to country should simply be called moving and all the economic objections people might give should be countered with proposals to end those objections with more liberty.




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