U.S. Immigration Policy Ignores Economic Reality

Izvor: KiWi

Inačica od 13:02, 31. svibnja 2013.

The basis of the existing situation of undocumented immigration is just a  basic disconnect between today's economic and labor market realities and an obsolete method of legal  immigration. 

Undocumented immigration is influenced in large part by a U.S. labor market that is developing a higher demand for less-skilled workers than has been met by the native-born labor force or by the present legal limits on immigration. 

Since the past decade and a  half of failed federal border-enforcement efforts make clear, immigration policies that ignore these larger economic forces  basically generate migration underground as opposed to effortlessly control it. 

Simply speaking, there is an contradiction between U.S. Immigration and economic policy, with economics earning. The problem is a broken immigration  program that directs the double messages "Keep Out" and "Help Wanted" to foreign workers. 

The U.S. economy continues  to create many less-skilled jobs even as native-born workers  grow older and better educated and are progressively unavailable to fill such jobs. 

Yet the federal government continues to enforce outdated mathematical limits and  other restrictions on immigration  that bear little relationship to the economic realities of our time. 

Consequently, enforcement resources are committed  in large part to trying to come the labor migration the U.S. economy attracts and  which will be a results of globalization. Despite the important position immigrants play in filling  less-skilled jobs, America offers few possibilities under the current immigration system for them to return to the U.S. Officially. 

There's the same bottleneck  for low-skilled workers who find temporary, employment-based visas. Of the 16 different types of temporary immigrant visas available for  employment and training in the Usa, only two -; H2A and H2B -; are available to individuals with little o-r  no formal training. Moreover, the total amount of H2B visas that can be granted in a year is capped at 66,000. 

Just a truly comprehensive approach will continue to work,  one that features a process where undocumented immigrants already living and in the Usa may use for legal status, in addition to the formation of a temporary worker  system with stringent protections for both temporary workers themselves and native-born workers. 

Lawmakers should tackle the  issue of undocumented immigration with less rhetoric and more reality. Continuing the  status quo by trying to impose immigration policies which can be at war with all the  U.S. and world wide economies will do nothing to address the fundamental problem.  Nor could it be feasible to wall off the Usa from the rest of-the world. 

Probably the most practical choice is to provide U.S. immigration policy in accordance with the facts of the U.S. Job market and an extremely transnational economy.
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