I'm not sure how much of this I agree with, but I would have agreed with a lot less of it before I read it. So in the interests of passing along a good persuader, I give you Aporia's Increasing Skilled Immigration Would Be a Mistake.
When asked, 71% of Trump supporters want to increase high-skilled immigration to the United States. This isn’t a priority for most of Trump’s coalition, but one wealthy and disproportionately influential faction has consistently and publicly advocated for increasing high-skilled immigration, to the point that Trump himself has endorsed giving green cards to all foreign students. This faction is the libertarian-adjacent tech-right, whose support for Trump is motivated by concerns about regulations, freedom of speech and averting California-style political dysfunction in the rest of the country. They are making a fatal mistake.
I didn't remove the links for this post, but I didn't read them myself.
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'Skilled' and 'university student or graduate' are not the same thing.
A fair point. I wonder if foreign university graduates are more retrainable, though.
In biotech it has only worked to lower wages. I do not know how that benefits Americans. We have been producing more PhDs than there are jobs for a long time already. I've interviewed newly minted PhDs applying for research assistant jobs that require only a BS degree.
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