Recent polling shows President Joe Biden’s open-border immigration policy is now ranked as the No. 1 or 2 problem facing America — in part because of the havoc in our large cities where the millions of migrants are now residing.
Americans are a welcoming and generous people, but this policy of laying out a welcome mat to any and everyone who wants to come has stretched the bounds of our compassion to the breaking point.
The vast majority of the current asylum-seekers are not criminals, drug runners or potential terrorists — though some are. Most are simply coming here for the reason our parents and grandparents came: a better life and economic opportunity for themselves and their kids. They are not villains. They are the victims of Biden’s inhumane and ruinous “let ’em in” border policy.
It is going to take years — maybe decades — to figure out how we are going to deal with these 8 million or so migrants. Biden will not be president and likely won’t even be alive as we work to undo the damage he’s done to our immigration system.
But there’s an even larger casualty of this mindless policy. Biden has contaminated the historic public support for LEGAL immigration. And he has done so at the very moment in time when we need to continually increase legal visas.
Right now, America issues roughly 2 million legal visas a year.
Most economists agree that immigration at this level has been a source of strength for our economy as it allows us to import bright and productive and ambitious people from around the world. It’s doubtful the U.S. would have reached the commanding heights of technology, medicine, the internet and now artificial intelligence without immigrant talent and brainpower — the “brainiacs,” as Larry Kudlow calls them.
But it’s also true that at no time in history have immigrants been more necessary than today. This is because of decades of low birth rates. The fertility rate for women of child-bearing age in the U.S. has fallen steadily from 3.3 to 1.78 over the past 70 years. A rate of 2.1 is the rate that keeps population size stable.
Immigrants are contributors in many ways, but three stand out as particularly beneficial. First, most immigrants arrive between the ages of 18-35, so the child-rearing costs are borne by other nations and they arrive in their prime working years.
Second, immigrants have higher labor force participation rates (67%) than most Americans (62%), and for the most part they are complimentary to rather than in competition with American workers. And third, immigrants have historically higher birth rates than Americans of the same age group.
Without immigration it’s going to be difficult to fill jobs, especially in industries like agriculture, construction, tech, home services and health care. It isn’t just a cliche — immigrants fill jobs that Americans often don’t find desirable.
We should gradually increase legal immigrant visas as soon as possible. We are about the only nation with the capacity to do this — and to pick and choose who should come.
Donald Trump recognized that you can’t have public support for valuable legal immigrants before you close off the illegals.
But this brings us back to Biden’s planned chaos border policy. His policy is hurting everyone: the migrants who are coming illegally, the immigrants who are waiting their turn to come, and the American economy by denying our employers the immigrant workers they need. Biden keeps saying we need a “comprehensive solution” — including an amnesty that few Americans will support today given the waves of illegals he’s allowed in.
There’s no president in American history who has undermined our valuable legacy of immigration more than Joe Biden. Maybe he’s the one who should be deported.
Stephen Moore is chief economist at FreedomWorks and a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation. His latest book is “Govzilla: How the Relentless Growth of Government Is Devouring Our Economy.”
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The vast majority of the current asylum-seekers are not criminals, drug runners or potential terrorists — though some are. Most are simply coming here for the reason our parents and grandparents came: a better life and economic opportunity for themselves and their kids. They are not villains.
I disagree. There first act here in America is entering this country ILLEGALLY . That makes them criminals.
Sorry, but by basic definition of the wrod CRIMINAL, when those whose first act upon entering the country is to break our immigration laws, then go on to ignore any law that offends them of their own choosing, just as what our President and his party think and act like they now do, not only are the immigrants to be considered criminals, but every member of the party tht enables them.
Add to that, with MILLIONS OF AMERICANS On the welfare rolls, WHY DO WE continually need to issue “2 million work visas” for immigrants?
START TELLING THOSE LEECHES get off their fat lazy butts and get a job!!!!
“Americans are a welcoming and generous people” but now that the sooner, rather than later part of running out of other people’s money, patience, and community peace is upon us, even the dullest of minds can see that American Finite resources, even as diminishing great as they may be, cannot infinitely fund acts of human charity which should never be financed on borrowed money, which makes it a moral crime of future generational theft, only postponing the price paid of painful socialist mis-governance and ultimately un-generosity, as well as redistributing the blessings awarded by God, to those ungodly unlawful minded people of warped passions who only reflect the very corrupt politicians who get to use borrowed money to buy power and votes today, paid for by THE PEOPLE, many of whom have yet to be born.
“The democrat party has, in fact, largely.conquered America’s cultural, educational, and media institutions, but theres still significant resistant millions of Americans reject its radical ideology do not want to fundamentally transform America are now awake to what the democrat party is doing destroy the country. Of course, the Constitution in America, free speech and academic freedom are shrinking and the police state is growing as is monitoring and spying on citizrns…” Quote from the book by Mark Levin, The Democrat Party Hates America.”
“It is going to take years — maybe decades — to figure out how we are going to deal with these 8 million or so migrants. Biden will not be president and likely won’t even be alive as we work to undo the damage he’s done to our immigration system.”
“There’s no president in American history who has undermined our valuable legacy of immigration more than Joe Biden.
Maybe he’s the one who should be deported.”
AND IF possible, Kick out all of his supporters!!!
Standard political establishment, Corp & Chamber of Commerce excuses / justification for cheap foreign labor.
Overall literacy rate in US has been in sharp decline.
Language barriers from increased immigration have contributed to low literacy in US.
We don’t have home grown “brainiacs” because our K-12 schools & colleges don’t educate; they indoctrinate govt dependency, entitlement, self absorption & victimhood.
US cannot have educational excellence or national identity or unity with people babbling in 100’s of different languages or in moronic street slang.
We need strict educational focus on English language, reading & comprehension ability, civics, history, math, sciences & vocational training – not gender identity, CRT or far left / Marxist ideology.
There are days i’d honestly LOVE to go back in time, to say JKF’s days, and push all politicians via telepathy, to VOTE A NATIONWIDE group of laws, that gets wrote into the constitution, that
A) English is our national language
B) ONLY ENGLISH will be on ANY level of government documents, NO other language.
C) YOU wanna come here, PROVE YOU SPEAK AND READ english.. Don’t tell us, we need to Honor your OWN Culture and lanaguage on OUR OFFICIAL documents.
D) MANDATE Citizenship checks, for work. PERIOD.