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Dems need to ralize they have a very effective wedge against the GOP if they can just focus their efforts on supporting and increasing high skill immigration which pretty much every analysis finds are massively positive in expectation rather than presenting a weak flank through their advocacy for illegals crossing the border. "Shut down the border and quadruple the amount of legal migrants" is a winning formula, Dems just need to run with it.
How high skill are we talking here?
Because Canada's "skilled" immigration has been an unmitigated disaster. Housing prices have skyrocketed, community relations are trashed, and the economy has been in a per-capita recession for 2 years now.
We need actually skilled labor and not whatever the system gamers are doing to get into Canada and Australia. Simply quadrupling legal immigration without a better system is not where we want to be.
The sort of skills you'd expect from people who are IQ 120+ on average. Lower than that and they'll be made obsolete by AI well before their expected end of working life and now you're just stuck with them and their descendants forever.
You're not quadrupling the US immigration intake with 120+ IQ types. You're not getting that average even with current numbers. Family reunification alone will drop it too low.
In practice you're just going to have the H1B debate all over again
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The only reason Democrats wanted immigration was that they thought that the people coming in would vote straight Democrat when they or their children became citizens. The last two election cycles have cast serious doubt on that plan. I’m not sure the Democrats themselves are going to be as bullish on mass immigration going forward.
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I doubt this is all that effective of a wedge. It generates online buzz, but at the end of the day, there isn't a large constituency that's willing to go to the mat over work visas. I'm on the side that's very skeptical of importing Indian software developers as a net positive for the United States, but it's just not worth infighting over when getting rid of fake "asylum seekers" is correct, popular, and will take all of the resources currently available.
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Eh, most Americans support more legal immigration from the decent and half decent parts of Latin America(places like Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic) and from Europe, but it’s not a top issue for anyone. India/Middle East/Africa might be slightly unpopular, but it’s definitely not something anyone would stake a campaign on.
They can already identify exactly which sort of countries we should be trusting. Why can't they do the same with people?
To be clear, I am suggesting that US citizenship be limited to immigrants from the countries listed above. Other immigrants should be few and far between, and should seldom be eligible for citizenship.
Why should we lock down immigration from e.g. Hungary? We've benefited quite a lot from them in the past.
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Yeah, the number of Democrats who will say "more immigration from Europe, less from India" rounds to zero. And importing massive amounts of Indians is campaign loser.
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