More than 10% of Japan’s population is now age 80 or older, the government said Monday, the latest worrying milestone in the rapidly graying country’s demographic crisis.
Lots of people are opposed to all sorts of legal immigration. Many people actually believe that immigrants can take away jobs from natives if they come over en masse, and then we won’t have jobs for people born here
I am under the impression that the H1-B visa program is taking away jobs from people born here (aka citizens) because it all you have to do is lie about how you couldn’t find a qualified citizen to work, then you can pay someone a fraction of what it would cost to hire a citizen.
The point is that en masse, when immigrants move to America, they create more jobs than they “take,” because immigrants are also consumers.
H1B visas might be used to make certain specific roles far more competitive, but you’d be hard pressed to make the argument that the tech sector isn’t one of the highest paying sectors period, or that they’re short on jobs
Why do you assume unskilled labor must be illegally migrating? Migrant workers are the norm and usually come in on a temp visa. Huge numbers of undocumented workers are here because of an expired short work visa for something like summer-fall harvesting.
Outside the scope of my point, but fine. Though splitting hairs between illegal entry and illegal remaining is a fools errand. I wasn’t talking about migrant workers. Nor asylum claimers (does anyone NOT claim asylum in this day and age, vs just crossing and hoping to not get caught?).
Lots of people are opposed to all sorts of legal immigration. Many people actually believe that immigrants can take away jobs from natives if they come over en masse, and then we won’t have jobs for people born here
It’s dumb but they believe it.
I am under the impression that the H1-B visa program is taking away jobs from people born here (aka citizens) because it all you have to do is lie about how you couldn’t find a qualified citizen to work, then you can pay someone a fraction of what it would cost to hire a citizen.
The point is that en masse, when immigrants move to America, they create more jobs than they “take,” because immigrants are also consumers.
H1B visas might be used to make certain specific roles far more competitive, but you’d be hard pressed to make the argument that the tech sector isn’t one of the highest paying sectors period, or that they’re short on jobs
H1-B isn’t relevant to people working jobs like picking crops, who far outnumber tech workers.
And what legal immigrants are doing that work?
Why do you assume unskilled labor must be illegally migrating? Migrant workers are the norm and usually come in on a temp visa. Huge numbers of undocumented workers are here because of an expired short work visa for something like summer-fall harvesting.
Outside the scope of my point, but fine. Though splitting hairs between illegal entry and illegal remaining is a fools errand. I wasn’t talking about migrant workers. Nor asylum claimers (does anyone NOT claim asylum in this day and age, vs just crossing and hoping to not get caught?).