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Baffling Immigration Policy Keeps Out the Skilled, Welcomes the Costly
Started by cordblomquist · 10 months ago
U.S. immigration law is full of contradictions. On the one hand, U.S. immigration laws keep out skilled immigrants who would help our economy, by sharply limiting the number of H-1B visas, and making legal immigration a very difficult and lengthy process. (Economists overwhelming
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11 months ago
"Economists overwhelmingly support allowing more skilled immigrants to come to the U.S."
So, let's invite a hundred thousand foreign economists to come to the U.S.
Will U.S. economists overwhelmingly support that idea, Hans?
11 months ago
Sarcasm is usually intended to mask ignorance.
11 months ago
In my case, Al, sarcasm was intended to ridicule hypocrisy.
First off, neither Bader nor I referenced "university professors."
You did.
Off the top of my head I would guess that fewer than 10% of USA economics graduates are employed by universities.
While we're on the subject, do you have some kind of data that shows university economics professors would overwhelmingly support the emigration of 100,000 foreign economists?
I'm sure the tuition paying, job searching, American students of those enlightened professors would love to have some classroom discussion on that issue.
The bottom line is Economics 101.
When you significantly increase the supply of labor, wages go down, benefits go down, working conditions go down, and job opportunities go down.