Every year, there is a proposal to "staple a green card to the diploma" of a foreign student who earns a PhD. The idea that there aren't enough intelligent Americans to fill the smart jobs has been especially sticky with a particular subset of Americans, Members of the United States Congress, but it isn't true.
As early as the 1980s, The National Science Foundation (NSF) urged lawmakers to admit more foreign students into Ph.D programs for the purpose of depressing wages.
A lawsuit was filed in Nevada this week alleging what is effectively a racket by ranchers conspiring to artificially deflate wages for both foreign and domestic shepherds. It is clear to anyone paying attention that the current framework for the agricultural guest worker program, H-2A, is not helping foreign or domestic workers, and at scale our temporary work programs are in fact suppressing wages and working conditions for workers to the sole benefit of employers.
Contra Elon Musk, ecological sustainability isn't a question of how many people a land mass can contain, but how many it can sustain. People can go just about anywhere for short periods of time, but if they want to put down roots and maintain a certain standard of living they are going to need large amounts of biologically productive space nearby. There's the rub.
No collection of sacrifices by any of the rest of us in service to our national community can ever add up to the single sacrifice of a person's very life. How can we possibly give the honor and respect earned by that sacrifice? The impossibility, however, does not release us from a responsibility to try.
April BLS reports show problematic employment data that persist during this economic recovery and analysts continue to show how increasing immigration will not reduce inflation.
The amount of anthropogenic noise is increasing with far reaching effects, but we are not yet able to understand to which extent. Recently, researchers have uncovered alarming connections between exposure to unwanted noise and cardiovascular health for those that live in urban areas. This raises additional concerns as to how wildlife is impacted and what it means for the long term health of our ecosystems. Our National Sprawl Study points out that our population growth, which is primarily driven by Congress's immigration policies, only worsen the issue.
Courts are the government institution depended upon to make sure the government itself follows the law it enforces against the people. When that gets out of whack you start to see the whole system unravel.
"For eight days in July 1834, immigrants' fear of the mere possibility of a future flood of newly freed slaves from the South competing with them for jobs in New York City boiled over into a full-scale riot involving thousands. It drew international attention." - Back of the Hiring Line, Chapter 3
The NumbersUSA National Sprawl Study shows that over 68,000 acres of open space was lost to development from 1982-2017, 67% of that loss due to population growth. Driving that growth and subsequent sprawl is the level of immigration to the U.S. Reducing immigration is the most effective way to preserve open spaces and ensure food security for the American people.