Fighting over H -1b visas: Making the case for both sides – daily independent

Nick Gulespi: We need more workers, not less

Nick Gulespi: We need more workers, not less

Immigration outrage is a major reason for Donald Trump and Republicans to return to power. Just before the presidential election, 56% of Americans told Pew Research that they were supporting the mass deportations of undocumented immigrants. In his first days of service, President Trump signed enforcement orders announcing a national emergency at our southern border, allowing the troops to be located there and to terminate the citizenship of paramount law, as defined in the 14th amendment.

Many of these actions will not adhere legally – or be popular with voters. Deep, Americans love immigrants because we see each other. According to the National Park Service, 40% of us track our background through Elis Island, the East Coast Immigration Station, which operates between 1892 and 1954. We want a tidy process in which people are checked, prohibited by most taxpayer -funded transfer programs and in condition to work and pay taxes legally.

The federal judge, appointed by Ronald Reagan, immediately blocks Trump’s actions regarding the citizenship of firstborn rights, calling it a “gross non -constitutional order”.

The same Pew poll showing a majority in favor of mass deportations reveals an even more significant number of Americans in favor of admitting higher-skilled workers (79%), renting to college cities (77%) and remain immigrants to be married to citizens (58%). And 64% of Americans believe that undocumented immigrants should be allowed to remain if they meet specific requirements, such as going back to background or work.

Even Trump’s biggest supporters has a fierce fight for H-1B visa immigrants, provided to 85,000 highly educated foreign workers a year. While MAGA activists want the program to be scrapped, Elon Musk, head of Tesla and SPPEX, managing the Ministry of Government Efficiency of Trump, said he would “go to war” in support of visas. Trump said he liked “both sides of the dispute, but favors the expansion of H-1bs because” you have to get the best people. “

Trump’s ambivalence reflects that of the American people. Although we are a “nation of immigrants” (the title of the 1958 bestseller by the then Saint -John F. Kennedy), we were never comfortable with the newcomers. All fears of current immigration levels are either exaggerated or leveled wrong.

While the southern border was extremely poorly ruled for most of Joe Biden’s inspirational presidency, illegal border crossings dropped to a four-year minimum at the end of last year. The unfounded campaign of Vice President JD Vance claims that Haiti refugees have spread diseases and eat cats in Springfield, Ohio, are categorically contradictory to urban officials, as well as reports that members of the Venezuela band are taking up residential complexes.

As the Cato-Alex Norastech Institute’s policy analyst documents, legal and illegal immigrants have lower crime percentages than born Americans. In any case, the violent crime decreases nationally and is lower than in 2020, the peak year of the pandemic locks of Covid-19.

Neither immigrants “steal” American jobs, nor in the largest or high end of the employment market. Since November 2021, the unemployment rate has been at or below 4% or a lower. Unqualified immigrant workers choose crops, staff kitchens, homework and work construction, all labor markets that publish many more jobs than they are ever filled. The average work of the H-1B visa in Tech pays about $ 132,000 a year and there is scarce evidence that employers pay foreign workers less than indigenous Americans.

When Trump defended the H-1B program at a joint press conference with technology titans like Larry Ellison of Oracle, he stressed: “People like Larry, he needs engineers … as no one ever needs them.” As the low unemployment rate shows, We need more workers, not less.

All employers must be free to hire and the best people for their openings for work. Immigrants tend to be independent and ambitious, which helps to explain why they are 80% more likely to start companies and have higher rates of participation in the labor force than indigenous Americans (67% against 62%). They flock to living areas such as Texas, Florida and New York, who need workers.

It is understandable that after a pandemic, a period of high inflation and economic and social anxiety and poor leadership, Americans would be ambivalent to immigrants. But today’s newcomers deserve the opportunities that our grandparents and grandparents and grandparents had when they passed through the island of Ellis-and sparked just as fear as today on the surface. Their presence is even more beneficial to us than it does.

Editor’s Note: Nick Gulespie is the editor of Reason and Reason. He wrote this about Insidesources.com. Please send your comments to [email protected]S We are committed to posting a wide variety of readers’ opinions as long as they meet with our Citizenship guidelinesS