1/I reviewed @reihan Salam's "Melting Pot or Civil War?" for Foreign Affairs:https://www.foreignaffairs.com/reviews/review-essay/2018-10-11/should-america-cut-low-skilled-immigration?gpp=LIdllm9bW3aj3/NdALeqADp1VU0zOS9kaldqMjViQ0xmWUMvRy9Ob2tiaElqMjFJR0Vwcm5rbUtCTEttTVFIT3BUaHpDT3dnUnBOSnlGaGxIOmY1N2FhMTFlNGVhNDE4Njk1YzFjYWIxY2MwMjM1YzA1ZTk1NTc3OWExOWI4N2VlMzhkZTk5YWM1NWU5NGFhNDQ%3D …
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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Oh, and you can buy the book here:https://www.amazon.com/Melting-Pot-Civil-War-Immigrants/dp/0735216274 …
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And if high skilled immigrants get pushed into low skilled jobs due to discrimination and loss of opportunity (given the personnel demands of the economy are changeable), what then?
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Hasn't happened so far!
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High skilled immigrants tend to have below replacement fertility. That plus intermarriage means that they are not factor. Somebody posted a chart showing Asian American kids in school already dropping.
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When I was at Bear Stearns, the legendary Ace Greenberg gave us our welcome speech and said, he wanted PSDs for employees. I thought he misspoke for PhD. Then, as if intuiting what I was thinking, he said: PSDs were “Poor, Smart, & Desiring to be rich”. Wise words.
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New problem for Salam’s solution: 1. The descendants of high-skilled immigrants will form a permanent upper-middle class (thanks in part to automation and globalization). 2. That upper-middle class will lead to racial resentment.
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This is so stupid. Answer: Pull in hard working folks. Their kids won’t be entitled and will similarly have a stronger work ethic (plus a little cushion). Their kids will get advanced degrees. Their kids will be spoiled, entitled as*holes...we’re f/ed either way.
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Thus creating a permanent underclass of people of a different race then them and... oh no.
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