The report is a uniquely comprehensive and jargon‐​free (to the extent possible) explanation of U.S. legal immigration. Contrary to public perception, immigrants cannot simply wait and get a green card (permanent residence) after a few years. Legal immigration is less like waiting in line and more like winning the lottery: it happens, but it is so rare that it is irrational to expect it in any individual case.

  • OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    151·
    10 months ago

    Full agree on all of this. Reduce red tape and increase legal immigration a lot to free up the system to refocus on actually stopping the people we don’t want.

    Credit to Cato for publishing the truth when really neither party has been up for discussing the nuance on this.

    • Neuromancer@lemm.eeM
      28·
      10 months ago

      Yep. Focus on what we need for immigrants and make it easier for them to come.

      We need people to pick vegetables. Give them a path to come legally.

      Both parties are guilty of making it difficult

      • jimbolauski@lemm.ee
        32·
        10 months ago

        How do we determine what we need. There’s a shortage of legal vegetable pickers but is that due to the wages or small worker pool. Would stopping the illegal hiring practices force wages up and more people would pick vegetables?

          • jimbolauski@lemm.ee
            42·
            10 months ago

            There are many liberals that want to work for a living, I’m sure more of them would pick vegetables if the wages were higher.

            • Neuromancer@lemm.eeM
              210·
              10 months ago

              I can’t see the liberals wanting to pick vegetables at any price. They tend to thumb their noses at physical work.

              • PizzaMan@lemm.ee
                2·
                10 months ago

                If I could, I’d rather making my living gardening.

                But good on you for speaking on behalf of others that you don’t understand in the first place. /s