Jophiel wrote:
I said my reason: I think it's stupid for the US government to create a legally sanctioned class of jobs that, by intentional design, are completely off-limits to any American citizens.
That's not what I'm advocating at all. There's no law preventing an employer from hiring an American citizen and paying all the associated taxes and whatnot if he wants. If he believes he needs a higher quality of labor than he'll get hiring someone "under the table", he'll do that. It's the employers choice. My suggestion is to make it legal to hire someone with one of these Visas in the same under the table manner that they're being hired right now.
This relieves the economic pressure differential. It's self correcting in that as the numbers of people with these visas increases, the wages they can get for jobs at which employers are willing to hire them will decrease. We could presume that this might affect other areas, but it likely wont. Any job requiring skilled English speakers is going to prefer to hire people who meet those criteria. This *only* affects those jobs which don't, which is a pretty small subset of jobs right now, and are primarily being worked illegally right now anyway.
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I can't imagine that you would accept the government using that same system for anything else and find it pretty funny that you'd argue for it here and then blame "The Left!" for it not happening. Are there a whole bunch of prominent Republicans out there advocating for this that I just don't know about?
Prominent? Probably not. Why does that matter? Is that a pre-requisite for an idea to exist and perhaps even be a good idea?
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Erm... ok? I haven't heard anyone (besides you in this thread) make a claim that the answer is to create a bunch of "We don't have to pay you minimum wage" visas, much less anyone from my "side" fighting against the idea but apparently thinking so makes you feel better.
Um... Because it's my idea? I know you like to think that I get all my positions and ideas from Conservative pundits on the radio and Fox News, but you're wrong. I'm not telling you what the consensus Conservative position on immigration reform is. I'm telling you what
my position is. And yes. It's not what you'll hear the folks on the radio talk about. Shocking, I know...