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As proposed by Trump administration, the US may want to adopt a scoring system to choose immigrants.
In short, young people are scored higher than old people, educated higher than uneducated, high salary higher than low salary, fluent in English higher than otherwise.....
Pros: may be good for economy, may be fair to those who work hard
Cons: may violate the founding principles of the US, may be bad for low-skilled Americans, "unfair" to those who struggle
The biggest issue with this is you are robbing other countries of their doctors, scientists, business people, engineers, etc. They will depress the salaries for these higher skilled jobs. There is not a whole lot of disadvantages for the US when skimming the cream off the top.
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Originally Posted by Bettafish
Cons: may violate the founding principles of the US, may be bad for low-skilled Americans, "unfair" to those who struggle
Keeping out lower skilled workers can only help low skilled workers here in the US. Somebody needs to do those jobs, as the both legal and illegal immigrants become less available to do them more is work is available and the wages will necessarily rise for jobs US workers do not want to do.
As proposed by Trump administration, the US may want to adopt a scoring system to choose immigrants.
In short, young people are scored higher than old people, educated higher than uneducated, high salary higher than low salary, fluent in English higher than otherwise.....
Pros: may be good for economy, may be fair to those who work hard
Cons: may violate the founding principles of the US, may be bad for low-skilled Americans, "unfair" to those who struggle
I only care about what is best for our own citizens. That does not violate our founding principles.
I only care about what is best for our own citizens. That does not violate our founding principles.
Same here. It's completely irrelevant to me what kind of immigrants come here as long as they speak English, are prepared to work, and have followed legal protocol to be here.
As proposed by Trump administration, the US may want to adopt a scoring system to choose immigrants.
In short, young people are scored higher than old people, educated higher than uneducated, high salary higher than low salary, fluent in English higher than otherwise.....
Pros: may be good for economy, may be fair to those who work hard
Cons: may violate the founding principles of the US, may be bad for low-skilled Americans, "unfair" to those who struggle
It will be good for low-skilled Americans.
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How many Americans actually support a merit-based immigration law?
