k9nanny wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2017 8:27 pm
I get so tired of the "they're taking our jobs" argument. Show me one native or local willing to pick up hay on a white hot afternoon.
It's more than that. Something I've posted before:
Wall Street Journal: Immigrants Founded 51% of U.S. Billion-Dollar Startups
(
Original report - PDF)
...including Google, SpaceX, Tesla, Uber, Cloudfare and more.
Which isn't at all surprising. When I was in high school it was the immigrants - from Asia, Russia, the Philippines, etc. - who did their homework and got the highest marks. They got the work ethic from their parents. Later I've worked for immigrants who set up businesses here.
Just 17 percent of the finalists in the 2016 Intel Science Talent Search — often called the “Junior Nobel Prize” — were the children of United States-born parents. 75 percent – 30 out of 40 – of the finalists had parents who worked in America on H-1B visas. (
PDF)
We all know people with grand plans to improve their lives. They're going to move to the west coast. Or to Canada if the Republicans or Democrats win. They're going to save up, quit their jobs and go back to school. They're going to run for office and fix things. But most never do. They're stuck in the inertia of their own lives, unable to drop or stop making new commitments even in the long term. Or unable to save, or to put in the extra effort. Or just too nervous about taking a leap into a new life.
Immigration acts as a
filter. You get only the people who DO the things they said. Who got over their fears. Who put in the extra effort and made the big leap.
These are the kind of people you want as citizens. The kind who ALSO tend to start businesses and create jobs. It's one reason why immigration is a good deal for the countries they head for.
These teens from the robotics competition; we want them as citizens. Good god, we want people like them.