We have lots of companies who hire legal
and illegal foreign workers. Trump’s commitment to comply with current law
should reduce the number of illegal aliens in the US, starting with criminal
immigrants. Trump has said that all other illegal aliens would go “to the back
of the line” to apply for citizenship.
Beyond that, the 1980 Immigration law that
opened up legal immigration to all sorts of options will probably be
restricted. Articles are appearing with proposals to end “anchor baby, chain
migration, lottery migration, foreign temp services, corporate L visas, foreign
student work visas or other holes that prevent the US from pursuing what Trump
calls “Immigration by Merit”.
Immigrants with Merit would be a return to
the “brain drain” policies we used before we got sloppy in 1980. We wanted the best of the best H1b engineers
we could get. We wanted a stable group
of A2a seasonal agricultural workers. We would continue to allow F student
visas to get the best H1b prospects we could get.
We want immigrants who can support
themselves and don’t need more immigrants on the US welfare rolls getting
welfare payments, free healthcare, free education, food stamps, housing
subsidies or other benefits.
The catch is that some of the best foreign
engineers we want might balk at just having their spouse and children with them
in the US; they may want their parents and other as well. We need to restrict this to spouse and
children and let the others walk away.
We don’t need any more H2b visa holders,
“anchor babies”, lottery winners, refugees or others with no needed skills. Companies
like the meat packers who hire only refugees will need to stop hiring refugees.
We have lots of foreign “hospitality”
employees working at hotels, resorts and restaurants, whose jobs could go back
to US citizens.
Trump’s “Buy American & Hire American”
suggests that our current Immigration policies will be tightened to exclude
legal immigrants and others we don’t really need.
E-Verify would be used by all companies in
the US. This system confirms US
citizenship or legal work permits as a requirement for employment. Illegal
immigrants would not be eligible for US jobs at companies that are required to
use E-Verify. E-Verify will expose lots of identity theft issues, like Obama’s
Social Security card.
There are trade-offs in the changes Trump
would make. US citizens would benefit
from these changes, because they would increase jobs available to US citizens
including higher paying construction and manufacturing jobs.
Those businesses who would not benefit
include businesses who import goods made overseas into the US. The “Buy
American” refers to buying goods made in the US and buying services offered in
the US.
As we shrink our foreign population and
increase jobs for US citizens, we will reduce the number of welfare recipients
and reduce our costs. Anything short of
this is suicide.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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