Immigration

Trump wants an immigration policy that is similar to the immigration policies in effect in the US prior to the 1960s. These were based on US labor needs due to real labor shortages.  It required that all immigrants had valid identity papers and could prove that they would be self-supporting. Most were required to have families to sponsor them and house them until they were employed and had saved enough money to provide their own housing. All received physical examinations to ensure that they didn’t have communicable diseases. All were required to have letters of reference attesting to their work experience, skills and their character. All were interviewed to confirm that they were suited to be approved.

 

Before air travel was possible, most immigrants arrived in passenger ships or overland from Mexico and Canada.  They congregated at specific immigration centers.

 

Today all international airports have separate international terminals and these serve as immigration centers to process entry visas.  These facilities could be expanded to provide all immigration application services.

 

Currently we require more engineers and software developers. Many are already here on F Student visas and are attending US universities. They would enter with H1b visas to be able to accept job offers from US employers.

 

We also need a stable Seasonal Workforce to harvest food grown in the US. There is a market for more kinds of automated harvesting machines to allow this work to be done with fewer H2a visa employees.

 

Employers who need other kinds of workers would be expected to hire US citizens.

 

This includes all other jobs and will involve moving many of our 100 million “discouraged workers” from welfare to work.

 

Some of these jobs require technical skills and will require the establishment of training programs at local community Tech Schools. These are local certificate programs that are customized to the employers. We used this certification training to ramp up electronics assembly in Atlanta Metro in the 1980s. Certification took less than a year to complete and Gwinnett Tech did the training. Employers helped the faculty design the curriculum and donated equipment. These schools have had welding, construction and electronics installation courses and these take a year to complete.

 

Trump is expecting the creation of 10 million jobs, so the employers who will need these employees should begin to contact their technical schools now.

 

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader