Does Mississippi need immigrants? (Biloxi, Hattiesburg: home, employment, landscaping)

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

If so, from what nation(s)?

[Listener2307]

I don't think so. The meager economy of Mississippi can hardly provide employment for who we have. There are few jobs that go untaken.

Usually, the arrival of a new source of major employment like an automobile plant or shipyard brings skilled people from other states thereby reducing the intended impact. I don't know what the figures are but the impression is, we add 10 jobs and get 7 people from other states to fill them. That certainly appears to be true at Toyota in Blue Spring.

So I don't think we need immigrants. But I certainly welcome them.

But why did you ask? What is your thinking?

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

Those who are entrepreneurs can be beneficial to our economy.
Let me ask another question for your Magnolia Staters: How many of you have met immigrants in Mississippi?

[sport69]

They need em in mississippi and Alabama to move the states forward

[Listener2307]

Originally Posted by Mouldy Old Schmo

Those who are entrepreneurs can be beneficial to our economy.
Let me ask another question for your Magnolia Staters: How many of you have met immigrants in Mississippi?

I know several. Ecuadorian, Mexican, Indian, second generation Chinese, second generation Greek. But none of them have any special education or talent. The ones I know who employ other people, employ people from their home country. Mexicans employing Mexicans and so forth.

[Threestep2]

Do you consider immigrants those from other nations only or those who move from other US states as well?

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

I have met people from Italy, France, Mexico, Colombia, Poland, South Korea, the Philippines, India, South Korea, China, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Japan, and Jordan in my hometown.

[brickpatio]

What an interesting topic! My two cents on this is that, from what I've read, legal immigrants (e.g. from India and China) often bring skills such as science and engineering and are the ones who start up many of the companies in Silicon Valley. In fact, I've always wondered if there was a way for Mississippi to market itself somehow to attract those types of immigrants so that they can come and start up new companies here in Mississippi. Presently many of them are going to Houston, which is not so far away. Why not come on over to Biloxi, Hattiesburg, Ridgeland, Olive Branch, Tupelo, Starkville, or Oxford?! And selfishly, I love Indian and Chinese food, so that's a huge plus...

We've also heard Haley Barbour talk about how important immigrants were (illegal in that case) in helping rebuild the Coast after Katrina. Even though we have a large supply of low-skilled non-working people, apparently a subset of them are not qualified for any job (e.g. because they don't have basic job skills such as reading, addition, showing up for work, taking orders, and being polite to customers...or they claim various disabilities such as back pain or psychiatric problems). I've heard that landscaping company owners love immigrant workers. So I would assume the answer is "yes", Mississippi would love to have more of them.

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

Originally Posted by brickpatio

Presently many of them are going to Houston, which is not so far away.

We have a "Houston"!

Houston, Mississippi - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[GrandviewGloria]

Yes!:
Denmark
Sweden
Finland
Estonia
Norway
Netherlands
Scotland
Iceland
Jordan
Switzerland
Australia
Luxembourg

And individuals from certain well-behaved and desirable, but possibly fragmented and persecuted, nations-within-nations, such as Basques, Boers, Parsees, and Flemings.

This would be limited to actual Swedes, Danes, Jordanians etc., and would exclude "economic refugees" and their descendants who have been squatting in those countries.

But only individuals with sufficiently high IQs: 130 for men & 125 for women. If you aren't smart enough for medschool, then you aren't smart enough to have a sufficiently improving effect on your surroundings (and, eventually, the local genome) to justify your admission and to enrich the lives of Mississippians. And frankly, Mississippi needs immigrants smart enough to compensate for the IQs of the immigrants the VOLAGS have been settling there.

What is NOT needed is an influx of people likely to become a tidal wave of sequential migration, displacing and perhaps subjugating Old Stock Mississippians. The well-being of Mississippians (and not of "business"/"employers") is more important than any other consideration.

(I must note that I did not include on this list, the island nation from which my illegitimate 'Real Daddy' descended - or the country in Northern Africa where the family had their olive groves. Nor do I include the nation which produced my genius illegitimate Great-Grandfather, whose infusion of good genes had such an improving effect on my Mother's family. I don't see either of their "peoples", as immigrants, as having had an improving effect within or upon the American Nation: in fact, both groups have tended to subjugate Old Stock Americans, and have been instrumental in the transmogrification of the American Nation into the American Empire - a very bad thing.)