What kind of immigration/border policy would you implement?

[David Horn]

(10-03-2022, 09:47 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:

(10-03-2022, 11:16 AM)David Horn Wrote: I would promote easing restrictions to entry for people willing to take work that is going undone: working in meat packing and farming, for instance.  I would also bring talent in as green card holders, making the quasi-master/slave relationship of the H1B a thiing of the past.  But mostly, I would fund efforts to reduce the flow of reguees and migrants by focusing on their countries of origin.  We can't take them all, nor can the Europeans, and it's creating a huge RW backlash as a result.

I agree with most of this. One of the reason I think some level of "globalism" is good is because some level of outsourced jobs tell citizens of impoverished countries "at least there's some work for me to do here, I don't have to hide on the back of a cargo ship to get to America".

The problem: corruption is rampant in most parts of the world (even here, though it's far less).  With money in charge, the 'little people', as Leona Helmsley used to call us, are just fodder: the worse the imbalance, the worse the oppression.  I see exacly no one interested in fixing this, so any hope that the oppressed people of the world can stay at home and prosper is miniscule.

Smedley Butler had it right: the rich use the armies of the world as population management tools.  I don't see that changing in my lifetime.