10-01-2022, 06:15 PM
(10-01-2022, 03:42 PM)JasonBlack Wrote: Covering the entirety of this topic would require several posts, so for the moment, I'll start with a few points
1) The primary goal of immigration policy would be....we embrace brain drain. We want the best black people, the best white people, the best brown people, the best Asiatic people...it doesn't matter where you're from, we just want the best from each country.
I want the holders of H-1B visas in our gene pool. It's a win-win solution.
Quote:2) The overarching question is "will this help America?". Sometimes this means more immigration, sometimes it means less.
We cut off immigration almost in time to make possible one of the greatest disasters (the Holocaust) more severe than it otherwise might have been. Would America be better off with the six millions Jews that Hitler exterminated back then and their progeny today? Undoubtedly so. It was easy to open the spigot on refugees from Cuba and Indochina. I'm not going to contrast one group to another except for what they experienced.
Quote:3) Limit asylum for refugees.
Refugees who never 'return' have a tendency to become citizens, and very good and loyal ones at that.
Quote:4) End policies enabling anchor babies. This would likely require a constitutional amendment.
Birthright citizenship is a protection of people often indistinguishable from some others of the same group.
We must put humanitarian concerns above practically everything else. The Nazis stripped Jews of German citizenship and thus protection from the worst. For good reason the USA enacted the Fifteenth Amendment to establish that people could not be denied citizenship and thus legal protection from arbitrary horrors after stripping them of citizenship. To be sure the totalitarianism and despotism of Nazi Germany made the loss of citizenship even more dangerous than is the case for even illegal aliens. (Illegal aliens still have the right to free speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, safety from arbitrary arrest for any offense other than illegal residence, the protection of property, the right to a swift and fair trial in a criminal case, and protection from "cruel and unusual punishment" -- to be sure all of those were non-existent in Hitlerland for Germans of "Aryan" stock.
Wilhelm Frick (convicted of crimes against humanity and duly hanged for this role), Hitler's legal hatchet-man for civil liberties, drafted the Nuremberg laws for the purpose of rendering Jews as pariahs in Germany in accordance with one of Hitler's Twenty0five Points -- that a jew could never be a German. With other conquests, either there was no formal government by the occupied people (Poland. the Baltic countries, Ukraine, and Belarus, and German-occupied parts of Greece) or the people had the dubious honor of being deemed Aryan nations so that Jews could be denied citizenship in their countries (Netherlands, Norway), and such were the countries which the Jewish population was most completely exterminated. Hitler insisted upon legal formalities to allow his worst. That includes the barbarous practice of Sippenhaft, in which those whose relatives escaped Nazi "justice" (talk about an oxymoron) could be punished as severely as that fugitive. Yes, wives and children of (mostly) male offenders. Something analogous to Sippenhaft exists in the Hell known as North Korea.
Quote:5) If you are employed, don't have a criminal record and can score exceedingly high on an IQ test (say, 125 or above), you get expedited citizenship.
Join our gene pool!
Quote:6) Have a STEM degree? Come on over.
No al-Qaeda types, please!
Quote:7) We should have active recruiters around the world trying to convince the best and brightest to move to the United States, the same way we recruit for military, college sports and universities.
See also orchestral musicians and opera singers! The economic pressure is obvious.
Quote:8) Offer grants for entrepreneurs to come here and open up shop.
Entrepreneurs doing well elsewhere rarely liquidate their successful shops to move here.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.