2/This book is the best case for immigration restriction that you're likely to read anytime soon!pic.twitter.com/eudmgtYTYf
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2/This book is the best case for immigration restriction that you're likely to read anytime soon!pic.twitter.com/eudmgtYTYf
3/Salam's basic case for restricting low-skilled immigration is this: 1. The descendants of low-skilled immigrants will form a permanent economic underclass (thanks in part to automation and globalization). 2. That underclass will lead to racial tensions.pic.twitter.com/XEURW5MujS
4/Salam's solution: Stop low-skilled immigration and let in high-skilled immigrants instead. They and their descendants will get good jobs and make plenty of money, thus easing their integration with the rest of America and creating a melting pot.pic.twitter.com/xZbKoOZEbr
5/Salam's argument has three big advantages over the typical restrictionist case: 1. It's not based on racism, overtly or covertly. 2. Salam is extremely well-informed about the facts of the issue. 3. Shifting toward skilled immigration is good policy.pic.twitter.com/ekIcJVrSYZ
6/BUT, I have some problems with Salam's case. First, the idea that low-skilled immigration will lead to increased racial tensions seems to contradict the experience of anyone who has seen the changes in L.A., San Diego, NYC, Houston, or other immigration-heavy cities.pic.twitter.com/SmUGoyp4aC
7/Second, low-skilled immigration to the U.S. has already collapsed. Immigrants are increasingly well-educated. So this just doesn't seem like an urgent problem. We took in lots of low-skilled immigrants in the 90s and early 2000s, and what's done is done.pic.twitter.com/nemp14KIuj
8/Like Reihan, I favor a skills-based immigration system that also allows family reunification, like the one Canada uses. But my case for it relies a lot more on direct economic benefits, and less on prophecies of race war! (end)
Oh, and you can buy the book here:https://www.amazon.com/Melting-Pot-Civil-War-Immigrants/dp/0735216274 …
wasn't everyone taught that the "melting pot" analogy is inherently problematic and that the "soup pot" analogy is preferred?
In the book, he argues that melting pot is best! As for me, I've always felt that these food analogies are too loose to be of much use.
Do you agree with the foundation of his analysis that says low-skilled immigration paired with increasing automation will necessarily create a permanent underclass?
I think that A) mass low-skilled immigration *can* create a racialized underclass (see: Malaysia, Singapore), but that it often doesn't, and America seems less likely to have that happen, and B) the automation thing is possible but I doubt it.
No we need low skilled workers too. These hardworking people populate Mc Donalds, supermarkets and Walmart and deserve a break. My grandmother started as a maid in 1907 married an American jerk and in spite of him raised four kids and owned her own house.
If hardworking low-skilled workers need a break,that's an argument for restricting low-skilled immigration. The resulting shortage of entry-level workers would put upward pressure on the wages of those immigrants already here, helping them assimilate economically, then culturally
Pretty much negates the whole 'American Dream' theme.
I do think too much low skilled immigration can be bad, especially for other low skilled immigrants, but I definitely want some since I view accepting tired, poor, huddled masses as part of our national creed. It would be a tragedy if we decided only elite immigrants were desired
Racial tensions have everything to do with people already here... whether immigrants are rich or poor doesn’t seem to matter much.
cool...seems to be available. I will check out
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