Why The U.S. Won’t Put Immigrants To Work

[@Comexcyc849]

I think that the real problem is they set all these difficult requirements for legal immigrants while opening the door for illegal ones

[@spikefivefivefive]

The US has one of the most generous LEGAL immigration schemes in the world.

[@MorpheusOne]

@peterkukluxklan: Do you work for the _`Heritage Foundation`?_

[@darlenerdz1300]

Illegal people as you call them are escaping persecution. If they enter whatever form, they have a right to apply for asylum (PERIOD!). It is the US fault not having the resources to manage the case load.

[@paulaharvey1171]

@@darlenerdz1300and we have a right to deport those not eligible which is most of them

[@paulaharvey1171]

@@kelvinong1908stay packed for 2024.

[@tonyxu7776]

This video needs to correct one thing- student visa is NOT a path. It is legally classified as non-immigration visa and any showing of immigration intent could lead to a denied application. It is often a dead-end road. And it would be unethical to mislead anyone as an “path.” It is no different than an extended tourism visa.

[@ydimkthis]

You can still try to switch onto an H-1B nonimmigrant worker visa from your student visa, and then potentially get a green card. The longer you can stay on your student visa and EAD, the more chances you have of getting selected in the H-1B lottery each year.

[@banditonehundred]

@@ydimkthis both EAD and H1B are supposed to be temporary in nature. Double edge sword for US universities, it’s not like people are dying to come to America for education, the appeal of a higher paying job is what matters.

[@didiss400]

the worst thing for a student is to come to the US with student visa , no path at all

[@banditonehundred]

@@didiss400 hey, don’t you think they are fortunate to get such a great education for USD 200k ?

[@skariaroy5988]

GC for an Indian born is not a option.

[@Seethenhagen]

How quickly they go from "they're not taking your job" into "they should take your job because we don't want to pay the wage/salary that a citizen would expect"

[@domcizek]

SORRY THERE ARE NO LONGER ENOJGH PEOPLE IN THE USA DUE TO THE LOW BIRTH RATE, OVER 10,000 AMERICANS RETIRE EVERY DAY THESE ARE SKILLED WORKERS AND MUST BE REPLACE WITH SOMEBODY, THE YOUNG PEOPE ARE NOT TAKING UP ELECTIRCAL, CARPERNTRY, PLUMBING SKILLS, SO THE ONLY ANSWER IS THE IMMAGRENTS TO REPLACE THEM

[@cheesemaster113]

It went from "there is no such thing as white replacement, that's a white supremacist ideology" to "we are glad that white men are being replace". It went from "they aren't taking your jobs!" to "it's great we have economic migrants taking your jobs and keeping wages down!" It's always the dismissive gas lighting of this countries elites which have killed our country like a slow but deadly poison.

[@RobertL.Peters]

Bingo

[@Jasaub]

Yes

[@RL-Hydra9]

Exactly

[@tywinlannister8341]

I like how companies like to repeat mantra on millions of empty job posts. However, they don't say that they offer humiliating salary and working conditions. It's like if I said that I'm looking for a person to clean my house, work in my garden, be my personal chef and driver, 6 days a week, for monthly salary 1k$ gross. And than I'm very schocked and angry when no one applies, thereafter I scream at the government to allow people from eg India to come to US and work for me (and represent myself as a philanthropist and savior, coz they worked in India for 50$).

[@kellharris2491]

And then we people complain about conditions we are told we are entitled.

[@jackgreen6188]

Exactly and Meanwhile the Cost of Living Sky Rockets....What we need is a Different and New Kind of Leadership in our Country

[@MichaelJones-rn2pq]

The issue is that no society can survive when people can break laws with no consequences. Whether it is shoplifting in San Francisco, crossing the border illegally in Texas, or not paying income taxes from China, then everybody loses faith and respect for the laws.

[@avradio0b]

That's why I never go over 65 on the highway

[@DistrustHumanz]

I am from Arkansas, a very conservative Republican state. Arkansas is a chicken state, which includes Tyson (the world's largest meat producer). Every single chicken plant in Arkansas is comprised almost entirely by illegal immigrants, and every single one of those chicken plants are owned and operated by conservative Republicans. Employing illegal immigrants has been so lucrative for these conservative Republicans, three of them even sit on the UofA board. These conservative Republicans did not employ illegal immigrants (which is, and always has been illegal) because they were better workers, but because they were cheaper workers and more easily manipulated (especuially if they become injured on the job).

[@emman100]

Just the way they like it 🤝

[@useridcn]

And, as a result, you have affordable chicken dishes on your dining table. Oh, just in case you are vegetarian, probably most of the fruit farms in California hire illegal immigrants, too. Don't lie to yourself or try to blame one group of people. WE ALL LOVE CHEAP LABORS AND DON'T CARE ABOUT THEIR RIGHT IF WE CAN HAVE AFFORDABLE FOOD.

[@IssanCaliRefugee]

Yup. Real ID, "build that wall", barbed wire in the Rio Grande, bussing or flying them to Democratic sanctuaries, makes for some impressive theatre. But then they turn right around to actually employ and profit immensely from them.

[@TheGrandHistorians]

Mexicans. immigrants? u know theyre mexicans. do they talk about futbol & beer 🍺? theyre mexicans immigrants. dont just say immigrants like theyre coming from europe and afrika to work 🤣 those bozos womt even work for welfare money

[@TheBooban]

That’s just business. It’s not their fault the US does not enforce immigration law.

[@flyingllama8543]

12 million unfilled jobs. How many of those provide a livable wage for that area?

[@NathanielRHamrick]

first off, 80% of the 12 million 'unfilled jobs' aren't even real. Of the remaining 4 million, you have a great point!

[@thomasauslander3757]

Exactly correct theyare catfishing for database survey..

[@CHIEF_420]

🧂🧂

[@Masterslessons]

Many. There is laws protecting wages. If not, complain about it. It's 2023 people don't want the smoke.

[@Tential1]

​@@NathanielRHamrickthis, this stupid "unfilled jobs" is a way for them to justify migration. It's purely for demographic warfare though. Most populations are declining. So if you steal someone's prime age worker, your accelerate their decline. South America literally can't good economic growth because America keeps eating the pillar of gdp growth, population(other is productivity). We've done it so badly, these countries are now in permanent population decline, aka permanent recession.

[@PaulADAigle]

The biggest problem is the lack of Good Employers. Way too many are undercutting their employees to increase their own earnings.

[@julioblanco]

This sounds like a problem only for their employer. If it paid better wages, this wouldn't be an issue.

[@jackcaffrey8493]

Yea but thats bc everyone wants to be an employee - how many business are you running

I agree.

[@Tential1]

​@@jackcaffrey8493yup, the reality is, it's a lack of people who want to run the business. Everyone wants the money from being an owner. No one wants to run the business. These same people crying about employers not paying enough, would do the exact same thing in the employer position.

[@Tential1]

​@@jackcaffrey8493also, the funny thing is, OK, we import these workers because we aren't birthing enough babies. So now, we destroy another countries birth rate by removing the prime age population from them (I don't believe this is by accident, but a way America has conducted a demographic warfare). I've looked at the birthrates from all over. We are crushing population growth by exporting our culture, and importing workers from crisis that ties back to us way too often. You have to control immigration to coincide with housing growth. We haven't done that... This idea any migration helps is stupid. Also, I find it insane because I don't understand how they juggle Muslim migrants, and their lgtbqia dedication. Whoever is walking that tight rope deserves a trophy

[@ZainKhan-sm8gr]

[UPDATE: US state department has allowed me to rejoin my parents process after reviewing our petition. The comment you will read below is from when I was stuck in a really difficult legal situation.] Waited 17 years in line with my family to finally get a call for our green card interview. Long story short, they told me that I've aged-out from my parents process and that makes me ineligible. The fact that I haven't been in the country of my birth since middle school - finished my undergraduate degree in applied mathematics at Texas - got a job in an American corporation in the software field - makes my current situation unbearable. I'm now stuck in a legal malaise going back and forth between peitions and the USCIS to grant me my friking PR. My family is American. My close friends are American. My co-workers are American. Here I am..no clue what's next for me once my work permit expires in 2025. The fact that I thought about joining the USAF as a reservist and contribute to the republic because of the opportunities it had given me..sigh

[@NikitOS-vv4ks]

Damn... that sucks

[@sitdowndogbreath]

The system is too complicated and too, " I'm following orders too much"

[@asyongmatipid2]

You should try consulting with an immigration lawyer about the CSPA or Child Status Protection Act. And another good advice is never overstay your visa coz it will complicate your ability to find other pathways to a green card. If being sponsored by your company for a GC is out of the question you should also consider nearby Canada which has a far easier system and way more options to stay permanently. Just search for Canada No Job Offer, No Age Limit, No IELTS and you'll get tons of videos about their pathways. Another good thing about Canada is that due to a treaty your social security contributions in the US will have credit up north if you end up getting citizenship there. On top of that, Canadians can work in the US on a TN visa if you find a company willing to sponsor you. Unfortunately, AFAIK it doesn't have a direct pathway to a green card but you can transition to H1-B, L-1, E1/E2 which do have pathways.

[@cheepiong]

Oh wow, this is a tragedy. I am sorry about your situation.

[@specialiseesi6746]

Get married to an American citizen, maybe even make it real, consider that. That´s how many get legalized.

[@deanjamesdrumming9232]

I live in CA and was in a job search for 15 months. Most of these jobs often look for 3+ years of work experience in the same field and/or a masters. Employers aren't willing to take time to teach people things that realistically don't take much time to learn or master. Many decent well paying jobs have 90, 100, 200 or even 300+ applicants. The competition is almost insurmountable. Then there are places also list "urgently hiring" and don't respond for 3-6 months after applying. In addition Ive been denied about a dozen jobs because of my medical history. Also, just because there are jobs open doesn't mean employers are motivated to fill the roles. Employers are likely taking months or years running their company with an over worked skeleton crew because the thought of another 40-50k salary(or three) to pay is too much for them in this zombie economy. All I could get hired at was a job working manual labor for 2.3k a month. Working with illegal immigrants at a golf course. I am the only one who can read and write in English and have a bachelors. Upwards mobility is dead.

[@grim_2000]

THIS. It's next to impossible to get a job nowadays, unless you've already been in it for years. And that's not for some fancy CEO-type jobs, but average ~40k/year jobs.

[@vkrgfan]

Canada is horrific in terms of employment, people with Master's and Ph.D.s are working in construction because of a lack of jobs and the lack of housing, and the immigration continues to flow like the river as if we have enough housing for everyone.

[@carlgharis7948]

My guess is they call you back month later because they had a half dozen or so people they hired and they left. Oh this person is next on the list. Now that says toxic. I remember I applied for a job in late December 2012 just after we agnolage oh the world's not really going to end. Anyway they call me up in April. It's like really you clowns are now calling me. So how many dope sick harioen junkies that you've hired that you had to fire because they were too busy shooting up during work hours theses past few months??

[@lawyerup2280]

Isn't it interesting how different the real experiences of American workers are in these comments, compared to the bull**** propaganda on CNBC paid for by large corporations? Seems almost like we are talking about 2 different countries.

[@baha3alshamari152]

​@@vkrgfan Canada is the second biggest country in the world with population smaller than Poland There's enough room for 1 billion people The problem is that the government isn't efficient enough

[@lalakuma9]

There are plenty of international students with US graduate degrees who can't stay in the US now because it's nearly impossible to get work visas. Right now the US doesn't want skilled immigrants OR unskilled immigrants. They only accept people who marry US citizens. Think about what kind of people that kind of immigration system attracts.

[@tobyhohenzollernfetherston6812]

my mom's half swedish half indian and she recieved her green card pretty quickly 🤷‍♂️ she still ain't a us citizen tho

[@useridcn]

​​​@@mrdkrso? Why do they feel entitled to stay and work legally just because they chose to come and pay for their education at the rate they knew and agreed to pay for before applying for the school?

[@TurdFergusen]

sham marriages, i know of two

[@justalostcause4425]

​@@mrdkrout of state students pay the same price

[@KiingM]

⁠@@useridcn😂 who said they feel entitled to stay????

[@BofaDee33]

I'm an immigrant. Been a U.S. citizen for 37 years. Became a chef, served the Army, pay my taxes, never been arrested. I agree with both sides on the issue. We can't just let anyone and everyone in but, we can't stick to the stupid old laws that are restrictive and preventive. Our birthrates are so low as in my home Country of Korea because no one can fuqqing afford to have children. Start making child care reasonable and affordable and I'm sure people would have more kids.

[@Demopans5990]

Not just cost in money, but cost in time. When you come back from work in SKorea, you head to the bar because it is late, and you are hammered. When you are done with work in the US, you stay stuck in traffic for up to hours at end before you get home

[@spikefivefivefive]

"Start making child care reasonable and affordable and I'm sure people would have more kids." Who says we need more kids? The creators of the Ponzi scheme? Unsustainable birth rates are what is destroying this planet.

[@BofaDee33]

@Demopans5990 all of these are true. We did drink to like 4 am in S. Korea after work. It's a tough work culture there.

[@rissaheads6091]

No it’s because the people there are so unattractive

[@royaldiadem_]

First, just because you never been arrested doesn’t mean you never committed a crime. Second, then let one of these migrants have your job, your house, your car. Or better open your house and let them come stay with you then. I’m sure you will change your position real quick. They should have to apply for citizenship and wait just like everyone across the Atlantic does.

[@ryerye9019]

Workforce participation is declining in the US. Adding immigrants won't solve the issue. Wages need to go up and even STEM graduates have hard time getting into their fields. The job openings are unfilled for many reasons: low pay, poor location, insecure employment, fake job postings, unrealistic requirements, toxic work environment, poor reputation, uncompetitive benefits, etc. You might find a desperate immigrant to fill that position, but even they will quit as soon as they find something better.

[@TheGrandHistorians]

Fake News 🗞️ 📰 only Mexicans work in the agri fields of California and several other states. most of them. this news agency is lying and creating a false narrative 😂😂😂 and u are only complaining about office jobs.get a real mans job. sitting is for women

[@NathanielRHamrick]

Exactly! This video is extremely misleading and should be taken down.

[@luffirton]

So that’s the way it works, if you get a better offer another place then most often people move jobs, it’s a natural part of an economy and it has nothing to do with being a immigrant or a citizen everyone seeks better opportunities and it’s what drives the economy forward.

[@CHIEF_420]

🧂

[@tanasarahdesign3781]

I am wondering how many of the job postings are fake, you may be right. There are plenty of people out here who would like jobs, but they can’t find them. You can apply and apply and get no responses at all. I used to chalk it up to unprofessionalism, but I am now wondering if they are really real jobs at all.

[@elir.torres8642]

There are no 12 million professional good paying jobs open. What we have is millions of unskilled, hard labor, low wage jobs that don't pay enough to satisfy the 3x the rent requirement.

[@baurny7762]

facts

[@wattheheck6010]

No president can solve this alone. Congress only cares about getting re-elected, not solving for solving our most pressing economic problems.

[@WorldIsWierd]

They have solved it by not allow people in the country. Why would they do things their citizen dont want

[@BTrain-is8ch]

It's a feature not a bug. Americans do love some protectionism. Especially when it comes to the labor market. Even when it comes to the low wage manual labor jobs Americans insist that we don't want.

[@khv.repair4347]

why did an American call you a black ass, why? what are not people?

[@alangivre2474]

The question is: what "solving" means? For republicans it means keep everyone who isn't white out, for democrats is keeping everyone in.

[@luffirton]

@@WorldIsWierdbecause many citizens don’t understand the intricacies of the economy

[@swaggery]

It's all fine and good until you realize the only reason employers want immigration is so they never have to raise wages. Which then leads to a plummeting birth rate because people working "well paying" engineering jobs even can't afford a child. Address the root causes first before trading one problem for another.

[@streetdoggz]

The reality here is simple. Labor shortage is the only thing giving more leverage to young workers to negotiate better salaries. 30 years ago it took 2-4x yearly salaries to buy a home, now it's 10x. Boomers already have homes and other assets/capital. Now they are complaining that no one wants to come and work for $15/hour, of course retirees don't want to work themselves. Now they are pushing to let more ppl in to compete with young Americans. Of course there will be declining birth rates, where are we going to raise all the children?? Lots of schools are closing because of aging population. And aging retirees don't care for families, they only care to stay rich until they pass away. "Got mine, screw everyone" mentality, well others can play that game, too.

[@Whoknowsme007]

Nope that's not the Republican philosophy. I have no interest in cheap labor at all costs. We need our young to be able to afford families and better to spend the $150 billion net we spend on illegal immigration to make that possible than to spend it on illegal immigrants

[@domcizek]

SO YOUR MAD THE PEOPLE THAT WORKED 60 YEARS HAVE RETIRED AND NOW ENJOYING A RETIREMENT UNTILL THEY DIE""""???? THAT DONT SOUND LOGICAL, JUST SELFISH ON YOUR PART, THE RETIRED PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO HAVE BABIES, , IMMAGRATION IS THE ONLY ANSWER, GERMNY HAS LET IN OVER 1 MILLION PEOPLE TO WORK, BECUSE THEY DONT HAVE ENOUGH PEOPLE EITHER, OTHERWISE THEY WOULD HAVE TO CLOSE THEIR FACTORIES, DO YOU WANT US TO CLOSE ALL OUR BUSINEESES????/

[@weichen-hc2sr]

In some other countries,$5/hour,and 300k to buy a decent home,which is 30years salary

[@angkhoa1216]

@@weichen-hc2srBruh its 1$ for my country 💀

[@kittiepride7772]

Thats why the Biden administration is doing this, one of the reasons anyway, they know the immigrants will flood the job market and employers do not have pay a livable wage creating higher dependency on the government aka democrats. It gives them more power, THAT is what this is all about.

[@emdcrazycat]

one of the reasons locals can’t fill in some of the available work openings that require a degree is because education here in the US is so expensive.

[@MaxBrix]

I have 3 kids at college. I have no money. Scholarships are easy to get.

[@carlgharis7948]

Require a degree my ass.

[@dbzkings2626]

Bingo! I was waiting for someone to say it.

[@tstcikhthys]

@@MaxBrix One, no they're not. I got rejected to every scholarship I applied to. And two, the point is that having to need to apply for scholarships is per se the problem. The US has really gone the wrong way in education, and its effects are spilling over into matters like immigration. Previously, high school used to be enough to qualify for the majority of jobs which aren't speciality occupations. But with the gradual degradation in high school education, employers noticed that kids were getting dumber and dumber, so they started adding "need bachelor's degree" as an arbitrary requirement to jobs which absolutely don't need a degree at all just as a proxy heuristic to make sure people had the education they were expecting. Of course, given that universities themselves (especially public universities) have been getting defunded over the years has meant that they have been raising tuition, which means that it's been getting expensive for people. So now, you have an economy full of employers who demand degrees for jobs that don't need them from people who can't afford to go to the universities in order to be able to get those degrees, which is being seen as an "independent" problem that needs to be solved by bringing in cheaper workers from abroad. It's just one bad decision after another after another.

[@purdyaldebaran]

Why risk going into debt? Sad😢

[@LIVdaBrand]

Many are ghost jobs too. And they are not paying enough to live. Which is frustrating. No longer is it possible to say “having a job is enough”. “Having a good paying job that is not toxic and does not lead you to burn out” is enough💯. They are cooking the books in this regard.

[@domcizek]

IN THE FUTURE, FAMILIES MUST GET TOGETHER AND LIVE IN ONE HOOUSE, IN ORDER TO AFFORD TODAYS COST, 3 PEOPLE WORK, THE FORTH, STAYS HOME AND COOKS AND TAKES CARE OF THE KIDS, THIS IS ALREADY HAPPENING,

[@CrimsonEclipse]

​@@domcizekthat's kind of like the past or many countries with a culture of multi-generational families. In a sense it's not that bad especially it could help with family bonding because so many people now a days in the west don't even see their parents weekly or even visit their grandparents yearly. And always complaining about they can't find someone to help them babysit.

[@domcizek]

YES, THAT IS TRUE, PEOPLE MOVE AND NEVER SEE THEIR RELATIVES, OR PARENTS EXCEPT ON ZOOM OR FACE BOOK VIDEO, CHILD CARD IS THE BIG PROBLEM, TO EXPENSIVE FOR MOST PEOPLE @@CrimsonEclipse

[@Zedris]

This is not honest report. You cant claim 9-10 million desks that are empty and then compare that to the illegal immigration at the southern border that are low skilled cheap labor workers at best. If this was a real discussion we should discuss the employment and education visa policy to bring people in to the country from all over the world with high skills and not just at the southern border

[@useridcn]

It's CNBC

[@arnoldmbuthia2687]

because educated people know there is no health care, far too many gun related violence, non-existent public transport, and institutionalised racism.

[@IssanCaliRefugee]

Indeed. All these retail, service industry jobs certainly aren't "empty desks". In most cases they aren't even real, as people send out hundreds of applications, don't get offers, and these "jobs" remain posted.

[@TheGrandHistorians]

Fake News 🗞️ 📰 only Mexicans work in the agri fields of California and several other states. most of them. this news agency is lying and creating a false narrative ...

[@XBarajasX]

​@@IssanCaliRefugeethen maybe the problem is you

[@youcainthandlethetruth]

I'm American where are these 9 million jobs at?

[@xiaoka]

Remember when people moved to where the jobs were in WW2?

[@KiingM]

Everywhere. The factory I work at right now has multiple 2nd assembly and 2nd shift primary assembly openings for $15 to $17hr… and it’s a company of 200 people. If my small company in upstate NY has that. How many other factories have those (there are 10s to 100 in my city alone, and it’s not a big town), I can see how in a country this big it can add up to millions of jobs. Question is, are they the jobs you would want?

[@RealGrandFail]

STEM and Blue Collar have lots of jobs. At least those are the jobs I have seen or just start a company if really smart.

[@canering]

They’re low wage, part time jobs. It’s so easy to get a retail or food service job, but they pay bad wages, limit hours, offer no benefits. It’s basically impossible to survive off these jobs. So when they say “new jobs created” yeah sure they’re technically jobs but they aren’t enough to live with the current cost of rent, groceries, health insurance, etc

[@calidreams5379]

There’s plenty if you’re interested but the pay is low and work grueling and the environment may make you want to throw up. As an example go to meat processing plants, farms, in the city restaurants need lots of kitchen help. You’ll be hired right away if you want the job. If you’ve ever worked in a restaurant kitchen, it’s not cool and air conditioned well like the dining area, it’s smoky, hot, crowded with a constant load of work, if there’s no work you get to go home with no pay. Use your imagination for the meat processing plants and imagine working in 100 degree or higher temperatures doing grueling labor in the sun for farm work. Are there plans to literally give away jobs to the immigrant refugees in New York now? Guess where many may end up?

[@Tigerous]

The pay doesn’t support most American families to survive. You can barely rent and own a home. Wages are so low for average Americans that it’s impossible to have kids and raise them properly.

[@miv366]

That’s because housing market is rigged to make money but not seen as a basic necessity.

[@RealGrandFail]

Would you rather make $15 per hour or not work and not afford to survive or Do you want those shiny 6-figure jobs that usually require a STEM degree?

[@Yy-gl8ku]

You don’t need to have kids

[@spikefivefivefive]

All because of the oversupply of illegal labor.

[@danirey425]

​@@ildar5184And you clearly haven't lived here, our wages have stagnated since the late 90's. It's why people are struggling to rent because they can no longer keep up

[@Avsfan23]

We shouldn’t have to lose our jobs to immigrants so employers can hire them and pay them less. Paying an immigrant less should be ILLEGAL. If you want workers you should have to pay them well.

[@mitchelloliver18]

It sucks to say, but these companies would take advantage of the new flood of workers and not have the expectation of raising their wages. People are finding it harder to work either because you need to take on debt to get an education to get a job or the current job needs to pay more to the point where it is probably easier to live on the streets or in cars or something.

[@avocadogaming3942]

Or pay living wages and address the cost to have children? Open boarders will help the rich

[@ChrisControversial]

Open borders help the rich yes but hurts the poor and middle class. Anyone who believes we should have open borders should have a reality check

[@tansin9]

@@ChrisControversial Says who? Even the most anti-immigration economist (George Borjas) admitted that massive unskilled immigration would RAISE real wages for the middle class because of cheaper goods and services. The people who are hurt the most are unskilled Americans.

[@tansin9]

Immigrants are more likely to hire people than the Americans who were born here.

[@prashanthb6521]

This is the apt solution for your country.....for every country.

[@kortyEdna825]

Most Americans find it hard to retire comfortably amid economy downtrend. Some have close to nothing going into retirement, my question is, will you pay off mortgage as a near-retiree, or spread money for cashflow, to afford lifestyle after retirement?

[@carssimplified2195]

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[@Justinmeyer1000]

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[@shannonsally455]

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[@Justinmeyer1000]

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[@shannonsally455]

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[@PuntiS]

This is why I gave up on any idea of immigration, be it the US or Europe. Companies come tooth and nail to try and bring you to their country, but the country itself doesn't want you there. It doesn't want your family there. It only wants your hard earned expertise and taxes. If it could strip you of your skills and leave the human behind, it just would, and it makes sure to make this very clear during all steps of immigration by making everything as hard and humiliating as it can.

[@ianhansen6840]

Too much of a good thing, my friend! Don't take it personally. It's hard to see the country you grow up in change so dramatically. Even a very tolerant and welcoming people have limits.

[@richardramfire3971]

It is unfortunate but true. Canada is worse than both Europe and USA because you will be underpaid while having to deal with high cost of living

[@MarvelousMarvin-nd4sr]

Yes stay home

[@psionx1]

countries never improve if large numbers of people are allowed to just run away to another for an easier life. many expect to be able bring cultural policies like sharia law with them which starts a cycle that can eventually lead you back to square one or worse. europe has no go zones because they imported too fast with out good policy on how to manage such a problem.

[@wise5674]

​​@@psionx1the first part of your statement is not accurate. Many countries improve when their citizens go abroad to earn money and use that money to invest in the home country. It's actually an effective way to improve a country. Secondly, assuming you are American, there is a 99.9% chance that your ancestors "ran away from their country" for an easier life. So that is not a good argument either. Thirdly, Muslims do not make up the majority of people trying to come into the US so that sharia example is also not a good one. Lastly, the comparison with Europe is not apt. Europe took in millions of immigrants without vetting for compassionate reasons. That is the polar opposite of the US system- legal immigrants here are heavily vetted

[@AntiPhonedrone]

I'm an American combat vet that has been denied employment multiple times for being "overqualified" and more often told the employer was "only hiring bilingual candidates" for roofing, construction, carpentry, masonry etc. That was back in '09-'12. I don't imagine the problem has gotten any better over a decade later considering the population of illegals is now tripled or more of what it was then. I miss working in my families trades. I come from generations of builders and farmers, now I can't continue that legacy because I don't speak the language of another country and people being so greedy they'd sell out their own country for a few pennies on the dollar. Traitors hire illegals, Americans hire Americans...or at least people that had the respect and decency to come here legally and learn our language.

[@poisenbery]

I want to point out that the split has NEVER been this even, in the entire history of my life. "Illegals are stealing our jobs" used to be a VERY fringe minority mentality. In the early 2000s, you were laughed at if that was your honest opinion. The fact that it has grown to 51% shows how big of an issue this has become.

[@mansamusatheogjr4177]

I can tell you that as an American without a college degree living in the DMV (dc area) that immigrants are definitely taking jobs from Americans. But this area is filled with lots of suburban college educated folk - the folk that have degrees and vote democrat don't compete with the immigrants for jobs so it's easy for them to say and vote in favor of policies that allow illegal immigrants. In other words they're not forced to live upon their ideology

[@BlairTravis]

1st you do not need college education. OTR needs 200,000 drivers right now and many companies will train you. Unions need workers from painting to hvac. They also will train apprentices while paying them. 2nd it's not democrats / republicans causing the problem. Start with wall st and follow the money.

[@mansamusatheogjr4177]

@BlairTravis wild u sent that reply. I start class a cdl school Sept 5th here in va. And you're right illegal immigration is favorable to big companies for cheap labor. Companies don't want to pay American workers their due wages they'd rather bank in big bucks

[@chickenfishhybrid44]

Exactly.

[@chirsal9487]

yeah ig the ultra democrat Moco/nova/etc Is full of rich kids going to college (most of them dont even know what they're going to do with their degree) but theres still plenty of employment in the area. Employers still prefer US Citizens and theres lots of low skill jobs availiable for US citizens alongside immigrants. Maybe we could focus on making these immigrants legal citizens who pay tax and become skilled workers, and that would help with the cheap labor problem.

[@Masterslessons]

Just move.

[@tobyhohenzollernfetherston6812]

omg just make colleges affordable again and labor shortage will sort itself out. im in $120k in debt for a flipping engineering degree smh.

[@useridcn]

Nope. Should be exactly the opposite. Keep colleges expensive. So those who can't afford or don't want the debt will enter the labor market to be cheap workers so we don't need illegal immigrants.

[@SP95]

I live in a socialist country with lots of free universities and jobs keeps earning less despite the population being increasingly educated or overeducated.

[@NadiaSeesIt]

No thanks to Socialism

[@NadiaSeesIt]

The median wage for engineers is 100k, you'll be alright

[@KiingM]

Sadly that won’t work. The labor shortage isn’t as much about skilled labor as much as it is about unskilled. Construction workers, Factory workers, delivery drivers, farm workers etc etc

[@retest6658]

USA need to learn from Australia regarding immigration policy. Australia doesnt take asylum seekers and refugee. But they can look past that status if they found you skilled enough to fill in the workforce based on each state's Skilled Occupation List. its brilliant.

[@Masterslessons]

Why mention or say anything logically? It's purpose driven to do what they are doing. Just sit down and turn a check.

[@acaicadunkley792]

Australia is an island, meaning that there's less of an opportunity for people in need to just show up. Also, Australia hasn't gone around destabilizing neighboring countries as much as the US has

[@retest6658]

@@acaicadunkley792 did u just look past the fact that Australia used to receive thousands of boatloaders monthly? It all ends when it started turning away those boats. And have u heard recent news about Italy? Did Italy gone around destabilizing other countries? I don't think so

[@punitadatta]

It does though. Politicians are too lazy 🦥 to do the actually hard work of deporting people, no matter what their ideology.

[@orangemanisbad7663]

Australia is kangaroo country 😂

[@RustyShackleford2000]

“The US is running out of workers” really? Then why aren’t wages keeping up with rising costs? Why is it so hard for American citizens to get jobs?

[@gabrielleal9363]

I have been in the US for 6 years coming from Brazil in a student visa. Graduated and I am now working with a work visa which is about to expire. Had a meeting with a lawyer about a green card and was told that the I had only a few options, and they would take a bit long. This country pretty much leaves people no option but marry someone or stay illegally here. Fortunately, I have a pretty comfortable life in my own country and I love Brazil but not everyone is that fortunate and a lot of people stay illegal due to a lack of options.

[@mariejane1567]

going home is an option though

[@nelliehua7992]

i am really flabbergasted how every "migrant" who comes into the US thinks its their home just because they "set foot" on our land. you don't even belong here and you are complaining the government is asking you to leave

[@flavialima5815]

@@mariejane1567 I think it's very much clear she meant no option to get a green card but to marry a citizen. Duh!

[@indy_go_blue6048]

@@flavialima5815 why does she think she's entitled?

[@kool2btrue]

​@@mariejane1567 That could mean certain starvation for some people. Hardly a choice, it's like giving you the choice to walk off a 100 story building, or getting shot in the foot in front of a hospital. Neither is ideal, but one may be certain death.

[@Ruth-xt5js]

I have a friend from the EU who graduated from an Ivy League school with an economics degree and worked at a big 4 consulting firm. After his post-college visa years were finished (3 yrs), he’d lost the green card lottery 3 years in a row and was worried that he wouldn’t be able to stay in the US if his employer wouldn’t sponsor him. That blew my mind…if even THIS guy, who had a zillion advantages and all kinds of in demand skills couldn’t find a way to stay here, how could anyone else have a chance??? The system is so broken it’s crazy.

[@jadler10]

Why would you rather work here than EU!?!

[@VasuJaganath]

@@jadler10 It’s fake. GC doesn’t have lotteries only H-1B has. Employment and merit-based GCs have ungodly wait times based on applicants nationality eg India 11-13+ years. A person from any EU nation should get answer for his GC application in less than 2 years and most likely he will be approved. As far as why work in US instead of EU? EU workers get less than US min wage. EU is designed to keep worker’s poor and society stratified. Having said that Germany is the only EU country worth working in EU in last 10 years (yes even before brexit) and it is currently in deep recession.

[@cerealkiller5983]

Every year there’s 100k visa openings and 300k applicants. Your friend got crowded out by the Indians and the Chinese applying for them.

[@Brockolli3000]

@@VasuJaganath "deep" recession. Then the US was/is also is in a recession, just nobody called it that way here lol

[@richardshipe4576]

​​@@VasuJaganathhe is likely not getting the details of his friend's story, which isn't surprising seeing that most Americans don't know their own freaking immigration policies and naturalization process whenever they yell at foreigners to come in the "right way" I do believe that his friend probably got into some God awful procedural complication though.

[@banditonehundred]

I setup a small tech start up in India. Previously many of our best people would end up leaving after a couple of years to the US. Now that has slowed down significantly, which has been very helpful for us.

[@Masterslessons]

Well there is a job (over paid job) requiring some lite programming far too easy for a lazy american. Come we will give you work visa. A room..

[@codebloke2200]

Tech companies want H-1B workers because those workers are effectively trapped into employment by the sponsoring company. Their ability to stay in the US is contingent on remaining employed by their sponsoring company. It's a version of indentured servitude

[@domcizek]

WELL, IT COST MONEY TO TRAIN A PERSON, THEY DONT WANT THEM TO LEAVE EARLY

[@falsettoandhighnotes6913]

​@@domcizekisn't that true for everyone

[@Dis_is_fine]

My husband literally makes over $200,000 a year and his employer still won’t sponsor his green card, just to give you an idea of hard this is.

[@chunglin_tang]

They'll just argue that some pure-bred American would've did the same job for 300K, and your husband is just pulling down wages LOL

[@missionpehlapageair1holypdf]

It might get worse next year onwards as Trump is poised to come to power again 😅

[@matacabrones4317]

@@chunglin_tang no, the ones suffering from mass immigration into US are the American poors

[@nelliehua7992]

you don't belong here and you're making over double the income of the average american? and you're complaining your life is hard ? i swear to god all the immigrants are the most entitled people on earth.

[@millevenon5853]

I think he should save and go back and retire in his home country

[@ChnesRep中華民國OfTaiwan]

Legal immigrants are entitled to work. Illegal immigrants should not stay. As simple as that. If the law is too restrict the Congress should relax it. You can't enter a house by breaking its window first and ask the host for a treat.

[@VianeyFrias02]

Securing a job as an immigrant world wide is really difficult, how do everyone expect us to survive.

[@VianeyFrias02]

You're right, but without working getting salaries how else can you pay your bills?

[@VianeyFrias02]

Thanks for the info 🙏🏻

[@etaokha4164]

When I came to UK at age 17 my mother had to make sure I got my citizenship because I had 6 months before my visa expires and I'll go back and if I turned 18 it will be harder for her to bring me to the UK so I worked hard and helped my mother by securing a Job in care home and saved up and gave her money to fast forward my stay and 1 month left before I turned 18 ad luckily I got my stay on my 18th birthday and I continued working to support my mother and paid her back for the loans she took out and I missed out on college because my mother needed me to pay her back which I did but I was just happy I got my stay and after 5 years in uk I got my citizenship and this time without the help of my mother I worked my ass off and made my own way and age 21 I moved out and started my own family and my mother is 80 and retired and I am grateful to her and the sacrifice she did for us to get our stay in uk before she retired and now she's enjoying her retirement and both her kids are grown and got family of their own and our kids automatically became citizens and out children gave citizenship to our partner. Like my sons dad got his stay through his child and paid less money and now he is a free being thanks to our child together. A happy ending

[@mikelarry2869]

Find your way home and figure it out running away solves nothing

[@DickyNuts]

we don't

[@aaronowens8941]

They need to hire Americans before this. I know plenty of qualified and functional Americans who are struggling to find jobs that are being filled by foreign bodies.

[@tony_georgiev7]

My family and I own a business here in the US through the E2 Visa system, despite creating many jobs in the US and paying taxes we have no path to permanent residency (let alone citizenship) unless one of us marries an American Citizen. Would love for congress to explain how this makes sense.

[@TheGrandHistorians]

come work in the fields of California come work where white and melanated kangz refuse to work at.

[@ardbeg9143]

Grow your business enough to get an EB5. It’s not an easy path, but it is a path

[@TheGrandHistorians]

​@@ardbeg9143and make sure to refuse hard labor jobs and just leave em to the meixans. cause all guys are good at is KZbin and google.

[@TheBooban]

Most countries, you just stay 5 or X years and you get a passport or a 5 yr residency. How long have you been in the US? And then, what does it matter? Your children will be citizens and you can retire presumably in the US or back in your home country.

[@tony_georgiev7]

@@ardbeg9143yes that is a potential path, they recently increased the investment req to $1.8mil which is more than I can currently afford and I’m worried it will continue to climb even as our business grows. Also, from what I have heard from the immigration attorney the wait times from EB5 are pretty crazy

[@danirey425]

Wages simply haven't kept up with inflation, that's what this "labor shortage" truly is. Adding cheaper immigrant labor solves nothing

[@Acbuyfinds]

most real comment

[@deborahkish5411]

All American citizens should stop paying taxes! We are paying for Unvetted Illegal Immigrants!

[@googleuser2426]

Solve this problem by taking people off of disability, and force these people to go back to work. There are some people who truly are disabled ie: those with cerebral palsy etc. But there are many people, I have spoken to personally, that are on disability benefits that can go and shop all day or work on the side for money under the table in the exact same feild they used to work in. What about those who have eaten themselves so fat that they can not get out of their chair? Guess what happens when you don't have money to eat, you lose weight and are able to move again. Juat saying let's look at who WE are giving free money to before taxing MORE, those who are already struggling to survive and feed their families. STOP bringing immigrants for Citizens to support.

[@jamesonmooon2]

how about stop welfare as well. some people get pregnant because they rely on the possibility of getting it

[@mithicash1444]

One gentleman said it best, we should be looking for young and healthy adults, preferably with a skill. Not just everyone. When my family applied to a green card from Bulgaria both of my parents had to show proof of a work skill/experience. My mom was a pastry chef for 20 years and my dad worked in construction(interior design/renovations) for just as long.

[@jazhiel17]

They aren’t skilled labor, anyone can make pastries and hammer in nail. 🤣.

[@neverevenheardofit]

No one that's anti-immigration would see your parents as skilled labor

[@jackass17s]

Go back to bulgaria.

[@rodrigocortes3641]

Lolol

[@coolboss999]

​@@jazhiel17Awww cute. I wanna see you design a home then and build it yourself with no skill 😍

[@Fellowtellurian]

"Meanwhile office desks sit empty" everyone knows that the desks are empty but the jobs are STILL being done right? It's not like the business is going under. The commercial real estate business is going under, that's all.

[@domcizek]

PEOPLE HAVE MOVED TO FLORIDA, AND NOW WORK FROM HOME, THAT IS WHY THERE IS NOT ENOUGH HOUSING FOR THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE HERE AND WORK A NORMAL JOB

[@kushfabio]

Transfer of wealth usually occur during inflation and market crash at times like this. So for me,this is time for aggressive investment. The more stocks drop, the more I buy. I'm just focused on making better investments and earning more as recession fear increases.

[@Sandragreta]

Find quality stocks that have long term potential, and ride with those stocks. I have found it takes someone who is very familiar with the market to make such good picks.

[@greta-c8k]

A lot of folks downplay the role of advlsors until being burnt by their own emotions. I remember couple summers back, after my lengthy divorce, I needed a good boost to help my business stay afloat, hence I researched for licensed advisors and came across someone of utmost qualifications. She's helped grow my reserve notwithstanding inflation, from $275k to $850k.

[@MarkJohn-e4d]

How can one find a verifiable financial planner? I would not mind looking up the professional that helped you. I will be retiring in two years and I might need some management on my much larger portfolio. Don't want to take any chances.

[@greta-c8k]

Svetlana Sarkisian Chowdhury is the licensed fiduciary I use. Just research the name. You’d find necessary details to work with a correspondence to set up an appointment..

[@Maxwellpaul2]

Thank you for the lead. I searched her up, and I have sent her an email. I hope she gets back to me soon.

[@richardspillers6282]

There are jobs nobody wants to do, nobody wants to do them because the pay is awful. In a lot if those jobs the pay is only awful because the employers have gotten away with paying slave wages forever.

[@Robert-oo5xo]

Receiving $2,220 a month from the US taxpayers to do absolutely nothing... I wouldn't wanna work either

[@JasonBorn-j3y]

I need this life

[@vector712]

As a Canadian my two biggest fears for the long term health of our economy is if US immigration policies becomes more like Canada's or if Canada's immigration policies become more like the US's.

[@theonlycaulfield]

The Canadian economy is already spiraling, the Canadian healthcare system is collapsing and Canadian property prices are rising to the point where housing is more expensive for young professionals relative to the US, given wages. This is largely due to how the Canadian population has increased 30% over the last two decades. Despite this, Canada is building less new housing relative to its population than any other developed Western nation. It would benefit if it stopped the unsustainable immigration, when there is not enough housing stock built, or being built. The current health of the Canadian economy is already solidly into a state of decay. Long term, it will likely only get worse.

[@cerealkiller5983]

Canada is a damn ice box for 9 months of the year so it needs to relax its immigration policies as much as it can to attract as many skilled workers as it can

[@beatrizcastelobranco4713]

@@cerealkiller5983 😂😂😂 right?

[@richardramfire3971]

Canada is going down fast. Wages are lower than the USA and cost of living is higher and getting even higher

[@indy_go_blue6048]

And yet Dictator Trudeau keeps getting back in office again and again and again and again. You get what you vote for.

[@kayrealist9793]

The most idiotic thing our country does is educate foreigners in our top universities and not allow them to contribute in our country. If we allow foreigners to be educated at out top universities we need to give them the option to contribute to our country. We need all the brightest of the world to contribute to our country. It's what keeps our country number 1 economically. The will of the people who wish to work hard and make our country better.

[@Masterslessons]

Other countries the education is better. It's just american education get you a slot at the local job.

[@ibukunoguntoye3056]

America universities aren't free last i checked, these foreigners pay top dollar for that education- calculate how many billions that contributes to the US economy directly and indirectly. Hence, the US government has no right to hold the foreigners against there will if they so choose, to relocate back home or other places to work.

[@Masterslessons]

@@ibukunoguntoye3056 most are smart and go to JR colleges with higher acceptance rate to a university. They will dominate it better than the local boys and girls, using Financial aid; propelling them to university. Cost is rather lower than you would think and they took you seat in class. Just saying

[@ibukunoguntoye3056]

@@Masterslessons I get your point. It's a conundrum that has no easy panacea.

[@rossta3949]

We don't need more college educated paper pushers running policy. We need more America first candidates that understand that illegal immigration lowers the wages for these skilled construction positions. If we had less people coming here living off our tax money and diluting wages, the market would be paying better for these positions.

[@redspectre-v9z]

If I was looking for a place to immigrate, the US would be probably the last one. No public health care, extremely toxic society, workaholic mindset full widespread...

[@luffirton]

I think there should also be a work visa for skilled workers in industries, construction (specialty fields like electrical, water ++) and specialty maintenance (trains, planes, diggers, tunnels boring machines ++) Many of these professionals have education that exceed or can rival a bachelors degree or more in length and that should be recognized and they can bring important new perspectives to these areas.

[@Masterslessons]

There is. What rock you live under?

[@Ryanrobi]

Agreed as well as for agriculture skilled workers, not talking about seasonal onion pickers but dairy herd managers, mechanics truck drivers etc.

[@Masterslessons]

What's keeping America together is skilled jobs and mostly union making up nearby of 25 million workers. Allowing more skilled jobs to go lower paying non union jobs will damage the middle class workers keeping America strong. No other country can handle that, and America is no different. In theory this sounds good, sure, but chase logic and statistics and this is a way to stamp working class out. Skilled workers are always going after top tier programming jobs and it's given to people with work visa and they spend their money away from the United States. See the issues.

[@julianfme]

It makes sense. The thing is that LatAm companies are not planning on letting these skilled employees leave to the US. Plus, the workers that are skilled in those areas, they might not know any English. And for you Americans, English is more important than skills in the labor itself.

[@funnykenji]

Look at New York, they are bringing in Unskilled people that can barely speak English, what are they going to freaking do, if I wanted to hire them I can't because they have no skill, can't train them because of language barrier, even they have some degree of skill still can't do anything because language is already and issue. Why work permits are not distributed to the existing potential workforce that graduated from university or already qualify to apply for work visa + with employer already/willing to provide the job? These people are ready to build and reinforce the economy. International student is just long term tourist visa for United States. Come in do your time spend your money and leave because you are too smart for us. This killing the economy in the long run.

[@christopherstimpson6540]

If you apply legally for immigration it costs thousands, takes years and you need a lawyer to figure out the system. If you just pay the Mexican cartel a "fee" you will be in the USA in a day and on a bus to NYC. Those working illegally still must pay taxes and are provided an Individual Taxpayer ID Number or (ITIN) which just happens to have a card and number sequence exactly like a Social Security number, so most just say that's what it is. So basically, we gave our immigration system over to the Mexican cartels and that's where it is today. The cartels were also given a code to access the appointments on the CBP One app, so of course they charge a fee to get the appointment now too. If this was "hacked" they system would have been shut down and fixed, but no. This is business as usual.

[@ella2234]

You do not need a lawyer and too much money if you know English very well and have the brains to go through the paperwork. I applied for my green card without a lawyer (just like a dozen of my friends upon the completion of their PhD studies here); all forms have very detailed instructions. Application fee plus some costs for a medical exam -- all our expenses.

[@christopherstimpson6540]

@@ella2234 Okay, so you don't need a lawyer if you have a PhD.

[@danelston9317]

I was an international student with an MS and a MBA. Only one in my class to not have a job offer before graduating, I was also the only international student..... it is incredibly difficult. The average immigrant in the USA is about 10 years behind in their career compared to host country folks.

[@spikefivefivefive]

What would make you think you're entitled to a job in a country simply because you studied there?

[@NeoShameMan]

​@@spikefivefivefivecompetences? Meritocracy?

[@Baloohnz96]

That make sense I’m 27 and I feel I’m 19 compared to my peers in terms of careers and job opportunities

[@donsph]

​@@spikefivefivefive- if you're the govt, it's more beneficial to keep those students that received high level American education and contribute to the economy than send them back home. That's just basic common sense. Unlike most entitled Americans who are lucky just to be born in the right country but are a burden to the system.

[@engineered-mind]

Facts - my cousin took 20 years and is now 43 to get his GC through H1 B and regrets it everyday (health, lost income etc)

[@lSeKToRl]

Did they really just interview a guy from the Heritage foundation. LOL. Why not just get Marjorie Taylor Green instead.

[@100c0c]

It's trite to interview the same 5 Democrats with the same viewpoint.

[@manubhatt3]

He seemed to make the most compelling and sensible arguments.

[@hermitthedruid]

@@manubhatt3 Yeah, his arguments are compelling and sensible as long as you leave things like compassion, equality, and anti-bigotry off the table.

[@manubhatt3]

@@hermitthedruid The problem with compassion in this case is that once you start being compassionate, there would probably start occurring a exploitation of your compassion rather than a true proper requirement of compassion. I don't see bigotry anywhere in his comments and regarding equality, first try implementing that properly inside your country before start taking the headache of applying that to immigrant applicants.

[@v.a.993]

They also interviewed a guy from the Cato Institute.

[@dss5295]

Reduce illegal immigration, Increase skilled immigration. Prioritize workers with: 1) US experience in sucessful companies 2) US education 3) Relevant foreign experience and education

[@mstyah]

The same with the UK. Why don’t they put them in jobs where demand is high? Let them contribute to society.

[@special1740]

US has made it difficult for young people to have children, so now it is just cheaper to import “ready cheap” families from abroad.

[@KaijieChiang]

Also for foreign student studying PhD in the US, the US would rather have them stay and deliver their talent, instead of cultivating the talent PhDs for other countries

[@domcizek]

THAT IS WHY THEY COME HERE, IF THEY CAN AFFORD THE TUITON, THEY WANT TO IMPROVE THEIR COUNTRY, THAT IS WHERE THEIR FRIENDS AND FAMILY IS

[@special1740]

The reason why US prefers immigration through family reconciliation, is b/c US does not have social benefits. If an immigrant has family around, they can help him out in times of need. If you bring in a person just for work, without family, then that person will end up on a street if they are out of a job.

[@didiss400]

wtf

[@cerealkiller5983]

Lmao that’s right, God forbid you get seriously I’ll tomorrow here in the US and end up with a $200k bill the hospital will chase you to the end of the earth to make you pay, American or not.

[@domcizek]

YOUR RIGHT, PLUS IF THEY HAVE A FAMILY, THEY MAY WORK HARD AND NOT CAUSE TROUBLE LIKE A LOT OF SINGLE MEN COMING TO THE USA

[@sonnyng9701]

It may seem like a cruel system compared to other developed countries like those in Europe benefits are much more generous ($1800-3000+ per month compared to one-time $400 welcoming money distributed by NGO or church like Lutheran Ministry). But it places the onus on the sponsors/family and put tremendous pressure on the new immigrants to find employment and, just as important, mingle and adapt to their new life--swim or sink! This means learning English ASAP and INTEGRATE into main stream culture/interact with other Americans. This is why immigrants in the US, except undocumented aliens who often don't have any formal structural support/pathway to integration, actually fare much better than those in Europe who tend to congregate in large ghettos and take a long time, if ever, to fully integrate and become productive citizens.

[@special1740]

@@sonnyng9701 You also need to take into account territorial size of European countries. US is larger, there is more space here to claim your own. Whether you want to or not, the smaller sizes of European countries force newcomers into ghetto areas, unless they can afford properties among the locals.

[@Brockolli3000]

US immigration is pure arbitrary. Somebody with a law degree, MBA, honors and job offer from JPM will not necessary be able to stay due to the H1-B lottery.

[@dennyv4716]

We have the workers. Is just that people don't want to work for slave wages, but we have illegals who would be more than willing

[@ManuelLopez-ev7ud]

I was born and raised in Mexico. My mom and siblings are all naturalized U.S. citizens. I was not able to get my green card due to my age. I was 18 years old, and wanted to serve in the marines. However, I was never allowed to do so. Went to college on an F1 visa, and wanted to create a business using and E2 visa, but when I learned that neither of those options are a path to permanent residence - I decided to pack my bags, moved back to my home country, and decided to go to school online. What hurts the most, is that soon, I will reach the age limit for the marine corp, and it breaks my heart that I will never be able to join.

[@Yy-gl8ku]

Can’t you serve in the Mexican military ?

[@khv.repair4347]

the statue of liberty has collapsed a long time ago, hold on america...

[@khv.repair4347]

why did an American call you a black ass, why? what are not people?

[@milessampson3942]

You were born and raised in Mexico. Serve in their military.

[@ILovePancakes24]

You are still eligible, but the system makes you wait 20 years. America is no longer the spring chicken it used to be

[@joshinya66]

They were saying mere weeks ago "the replacement theory " is a false conspiracy theory. 😂

[@OldSchool4U]

Biased report! I saw firsthand Eastern Indians with Master degrees selected for highly paid, state government positions in Sacramento California over American citizens who also had graduate degrees! All in the name of “diversity” in the workplace. Every country should decide requirements for entry & migration! I would love to live in Guernsey. However, as an immigrant I’m required to have 200K in savings to prove I can financially care for myself. Only those with critical job skills can bypass this financial requirement! United States cannot afford to feed and house 7-10 million economic migrants (including getaways) who have showed up here illegally during Biden’s presidency!

[@quizlers]

I don't want to hear from the Heritage Foundation on the subject of Immigration. All they want is to keep America rich, white and conservative.

[@wrestlerx8494]

Do the migrants who claim to want to work in the US realize that most jobs in the US don't pay enough for a person to support themselves? This means that the migrants will continue to get government subsidies because they can't afford to support themselves with a job, which will result in them taking from the economy than contributing anything. Most likely though they already plan to rely on government support in the face of low wages, which is why they might suppress wages by agreeing to work for less money than the next guy. Then they will just use food stamps and state insurance in lieu of paying for their own food or healthcare.

[@Militantreturns]

Immigration is not the problem. But Illegal immigration is

[@Lyrandar]

I want there to be a labor shortage. It might force companies to actually compete on wages and give us non suit folks some cash for once. My disagreement with immigration is purely economic, the presence of immigrant labor makes workers compete for jobs instead of companies for workers. It favors suits.

[@fanniinnanetguy653]

Inflation is already high enough.

[@harlepas]

Exactly

[@harlepas]

@@fanniinnanetguy653inflation is better than unemployment

[@3d1e00]

The issue has nothing to do with anything about migration. Back in the 60s and 70s we were on the cusp of investing in automation and infrastructure required to increase productivity and decrease head account requirements. Thus optimising around reducing work force numbers due to natural demographic shifts. That didn't happen, greedy business moved manufacturing out of country to reduce costs. Greedy government shifted low value service based work to the front. Now we sit at the end of this process with no innovation in manufacturing, and domestic work forces with no skills required to transition to local high productivity manufacturing. So now we are again going down the path of stupidity by importing large migrant work forces. So now we will have poorly integrated migrant populations with very different cultural values. This happening at a point of instability causing societal shifts that will cause wide spread domestic conflict. This will lead to systemic collapse which is what we are seeing now. There isn't any solution to this. We are screwed in the west.

[@seanhuntsman7834]

Oh they are working alright . Went into wing stop and the whole place was immigrants . The knew just enough English . When they didn’t understand me, they got one person to translate. I feel this is going to be the norm. Thanks Biden . Let’s do this the right way. A few months ago it was a different group of people working in there. I wonder what happened to those people who worked there? I wonder how the owner of this WS got these people to work so fast? Lots of questions need to be answered and a lot of questions need to be addressed. I’m assuming though that people still care about America and what’s happening 🤦🏼‍♂️

[@weaboo_8965]

Great but people like me who want to find work cannot find work because I live in a dense city, they require you to have experience to even get into these jobs and I'm faced with the problem of jobs needing you to have experience to work, but I cannot get work experience if no one hires. So it's just a infinite loop of issues where I live.

[@indy_go_blue6048]

Sad. Young American citizens have been facing the same problem for the past 40 odd years. Millie whiners don't realize how tough we had it trying to get jobs and experience from the "greatest gen" who also worked into their 70s.

[@domcizek]

TRADE SCHOOL IS THE ANSWER, FOR ALL THE YOUNG AND MIDDLE AGE PEOPLE

[@weaboo_8965]

@@domcizek I heard it from my fellow friends too! Definitely the way to go but I want to head into nursing so not for me 😔

[@Blue-d3t1c]

America is not just an economy, it is a culture and immigrants impact this. I immigrated to Germany over 20 years ago, my partner, though technically a German, is a daughter of immigrants and raised as such. We both try to embrace the culture, but one look in our fridge and pantry and our immigration influence becomes clear.

[@tstcikhthys]

*The US, not "America". *affect, not "impact".

[@dlewis8405]

I did not hear any specifics about what industries have a shortage of workers. Pretty vague reference to 9 million empty desks. That is just because everyone is working from home😂

[@khv.repair4347]

the statue of liberty has collapsed a long time ago, hold on america...

[@BlairTravis]

Try doing some of your own research ie; reading and comprehension Desks can be the drivers seat, standing at bedside, knocking tin on a workbench .American Hospital Association study : total supply of RNs decreased by more than 100,000 from 2020 to 2021 -American Trucking Association (ATA) ; has reported the trucking industry will need to hire roughly 1.1 million new drivers in the next decade (or about 110,000 drivers per year) to keep up with the current industry demand.The construction industry will need to attract nearly 650,000 additional workers on top of the normal pace of hiring in 2022 to meet the demand for labor, according to a model developed by Associated Builders and Contractors.

[@Masterslessons]

They need more hamsters on the wheel. As inflation is high, the more unskilled workers working, the more money they can make on a inflation market and just laugh at you

[@domcizek]

WELL, START WITH THE SIMPLE ONES, HOTELS AND MOTELS, THEY ALL NEED ROOM CLEANERS, SOME OF THEM ARE CLOSING OFF ROOMS BECAUSE OF A SHORTAGE OF CLEANING PEOPLE, AND RESTURANTS , ALL NEED WORKERS, SOME ARE CLOSING OFF ROOMS BECAUSE OF NO WORKERS, AND HOUSING, , THEY NEED WORKERS TO BUILD THE HOUSES, THAT IS WHY WE ARE SHORT ON HOUSING IN THIS COUNTRY, THOSE ARE JUST A FEW, I GET 10 JOB OFFERS FROM THE EMAIL SITE, INDEED, EVERY DAY, ,

[@greencoffee8224]

Congress needs to act this has nothing to do with the president… our immigration policy is broken. And yes, we do need immigrants into this nation… it is the driving force of our economy

[@giancarlonyt]

put immigrants to work in food production/agriculture = cheaper food prices. put them to work in kitchens/bars/restaurants: cheaper everything, put them to work cutting hair, mailmen, cashiers. Most Americans don't like those jobs anyway

[@tanvi1756]

And then all of a sudden AI comes and disrupted both sides of the border.

[@Metaris]

The Age of Easy Money is over. Most of this huge surge in job openings will be going away. The last thing we need to do is knee jerk to flooding the labor market over a problem that inflation measures are sorting out already.

[@Masterslessons]

I see and know countless people making easy money. Nothing is changing. The poor think it's the end of the world. You

[@jerryrichardson2799]

Yep, CNBC is here for the top 1%. There are millions of people in this country with college degrees in the working poor.

[@kayrealist9793]

You do understand that a college degree does not guarantee a job right? lol

[@Masterslessons]

Did you apply?

[@maxmad123]

Maybe if the republican Supreme Court (elected from Trump a few btw) would have not annulled the amnesty for human debt? Or blocking similar bills republicans in the congress? Biden wanted to make a bill for lowering tuition rates! And then the cynical republicans rant about the situation as if their innocent.

[@Anna_Raphael]

I live in Southern California where there are many ethnic groups of Asian immigrants, the problem I see here is that many of them cannot speak English, and have no desire to learn English, or adjust to American custom and culture. They operate as if they were in their home countries, so why are they in the U.S.? I came to the U.S. because I like the American culture and custom. I hate to see California turn into little Asia or a communist state where people have no idea what human rights are, or have any concern about what the direction of society will be in the near future. Some only care about themselves and their families, with the mind set of getting as much as possible from others. I moved from Asia to the U.S. because I don't want to be in Asia. I also hate to say that our politicians here sold us out to China and Taiwan, they betray their oaths in office, and should be removed from their positions.

[@hyphydan]

Same thing up here in the Bay Area, maybe worse. All they care about is milking MediCal IHSS and Welfare/Section 8 - bringing their elderly parent/cash cow to the USA.

[@laopang91362]

Because many didn't come here to work.

[@madmachanicest9955]

The main reason is people already living here are screwed over by imagrent layber as it undercuts the job market. The reason many jobs are not being filled is the skill training need is unaffordable or no one is willing or able to work for the pay offered.

[@mikea5745]

"imagrent layber" it's spelled immigrant labor. The US provides education through high school, and many GED programs. You could easily go back to school and finish your high school education. You're squandered a first world education. It's not the fault of immigrants that you are uneducated If an immigrant can come from poverty, get a third world education, travel across a continent, and work far harder than you, then they deserve the job. Compared to an immigrant, you've had every advantage in the world, yet they're better at the job and work harder than you. You're just entitled and lazy, asking for free handouts. Why should someone else be denied a job when they're willing to work for it, unlike you?

[@IssanCaliRefugee]

I have an MA and 6 years' teaching experience. I heard they need teachers. Well, it'd take me about $3k+ of extra courses and exams to qualify. Maybe a little help with that? Nope. I guess they don't need teachers badly enough.

[@JT_771]

Immigrant LABOR (not sure what this 'layber' business is) isn't anywhere near the supposed negative impact that some people think.

[@ILovePancakes24]

corp-republicans lie and tell you its imagrents when its really that they want to cut your pay and hire someone else cheaper for that 4th quarter bonus.

[@chriscunanan]

@@JT_771 You think billions in remittances don't even have significant effects on local economies? Most people don't know the term, let alone the amounts drained from local/national circulation.

[@cliffbarber1642]

I agree that for America to grow and thrive it needs to have a reformed and streamlined immigration system not unlike what seems to be the consensus of the experts interviewed here. However, before looking at immigration to solve the labour shortage I would want to take a much harder look at how we link up out of work groups of people here in the US with work opportunities. In particular, the unemployment rate among young black men and women in my city of Chicago is close to 70% on average in the poorest and most violent areas of the city. Why don’t we double down on efforts to get this group into jobs the country needs also serving to lower future government social services that this group may require if they don’t find careers to serve them and their families? It’s a win-win for America. BTW, it would likely result in a dramatic reduction in the violence that plagues cities like Chicago. I’m all for reformed immigration policies, but let’s mine for workers here as first priority.

[@Firecracker876]

They rather just replace those people with immigrants. They are doing an intentional change in demographics of America to lower black populations and increase hispanic and Asian

[@Masterslessons]

And world hunger can be solved today. We know. But won't happen.

[@seanthe100]

I get what you're saying, and the groups in Chicago should be invested in to work. However, in the currently workforce participation for black Americans is 64% higher than the workforce participation for the total US population winch is 62.6%, for white Americans workforce participation is even lower at 62.3%. A cherry picked minority population is not going to make a huge difference as black are already employed at higher rates than the US or whites.

[@yvonneplant9434]

We can't fix the unemployment you mention without fixing illiteracy. We're failing at the latter.

[@LiberalAsshat]

We should not be allowing foreign laborers into the country when unemployment among American blacks is 70% in many major cities.

[@KatharineOsborne]

So I lived in the US from 1994 to 2011. First I was on a student visa and got my university education in the States. Then I was on a Trade NAFTA visa for about six months (I quit that job because it and where I was living was affecting my mental health). Then I was on an H1-B for 2 years at a different company, who then had mass layoffs. I was hired by a third company on an H1-B but the US government lost my paperwork and didn’t tell my employer for ELEVEN MONTHS. During this limbo time I couldn’t work or leave the country. My employer paid my rent and gave me mall gift cards so I could get food. It was horrendous. I stayed there for two years before I was fired for speaking out about how employees were being treated badly by a new policy (long story, but I lived in an ‘at will’ state and I was dumb for sticking up for my principles). So then I was an ‘illegal’ immigrant for the rest of my time in the US. For 4 years I worked for a company that didn’t care. Then I worked as an independent contractor (I’m a programmer), and did odd jobs on the side like photography and book editing. And I left in the Obama years as amnesty looked increasingly remote. And the irony is I have aunts and uncles who became US citizens without living in the US because my grandmother was a US citizen. But because the law that allowed them to do that had an arbitrary cut off date before my mother was born, she could not become a US citizen through that route. I have generations of American ancestors (literally going back to the Mayflower) and I could not become a US citizen. Oh and to clarify, with H-1B the visa is attached to the job, not the employee. However if you immigrate via H-1B, you can only have that status for 6 years, by which time you need to start the green card process. If you switch jobs, you have to start over. And at the time I was on the H1-B, the processing time for getting a green card was seven years. The math ain’t mathing. I hope it’s changed. When I was an immigrant the US system was hopelessly broken. Now I am a UK permanent resident. The UK system isn’t great, but it isn’t completely dysfunctional (yet). I try to discourage anyone wanting to immigrate to the US; don’t put yourself through that nonsense unless you come from some really horrendous country and have no other options.

[@ILovePancakes24]

Yeah the system in America in absolutely horrendous and last updated in the 80s

[@Masterslessons]

No one asked.

[@ILovePancakes24]

I asked@@Masterslessons

[@agentorange20]

The USA doesn’t need ‘immigrants en mass’, it needs the right ones who have the requisite skills and experience, who enter legally and lawfully and while not overwhelming or undercutting US citizens and US labor who should have first preference for said jobs.

[@matthewdaza2453]

find the solution for why people aren’t having kids. Ingesting more immigrants is only the short term solution with negative long term consequences

[@maleekajones5893]

Pay people livable wages and maybe people will take jobs and keep them.

[@sebastiangruenfeld141]

Sure mass immigration is good for the economy but is it good for the target countrys people? Canada admits half a million immigrants per year while native Canadians cannot even afford a home. More people means more competition for limited resources (housing, jobs, day care places, ect). We need to stop thinking of people as resources to be exploited for economic growth. Eternal growth is not sustainable. Furthermore, who are we to take away the skilled immigrants from other countries? Most immigrants from Africa to the US have a bachelor degree or higher. Don't you Africa needs those skilled people more than the West does? Do Africa and other developing regions not deserve to improve their standard of living? Siphoning off the skilled workers from poorer regions is just another example of the West's neo colonialist practices.

[@Worldaffairslover]

If new immigrants are competing with you for housing then you native citizens have been slacking

[@sebastiangruenfeld141]

@@Worldaffairslover Yes, because we all can work 6 figure jobs and no one has to do essential jobs like construction, retail, ect.

[@Whoknowsme007]

@@Worldaffairslover no and this is the scary part of what we mean by this replacement theory. You all are used to having very little and you're used to living under oppressive societies so a little bit more and a little bit more freedom seems like a big game to you but to us it seems like the oppressive poverty that it is. That's the reason why it seems like they want to replace us.

[@jadler10]

9 million infilled jobs….. what jobs? You mean the low wage retail or fast food jobs which don’t have benefits or pay enough to make ends meet?

[@kittiepride7772]

Biden has let in 8 million immigrants and only created 2 million jobs, most of which were full time positions cut down into part time positions.

[@arebolar]

This video forgets the issue of productivity and salaries. Cheap immigrant labor discourages investments in productivity by lowering salaries. Without immigration, producers would be forced to invest in tools to make workers more productive and workers would benefit with higher salaries. Jobs would be occupied by US citizens because today there are many people in the US who could work but don’t because salaries are unattractive to them. Cheap labor from abroad perpetuates this situation

[@arturoborbon8466]

I am a Banker, and I see a lot of immigrants seeking asylum. Not just from latin America but also Europe, Ukraine and Russia. But the government and news always talk about the brown and black communities.

[@special1740]

Much fewer people seek asylum in US from Europe. In fact, many Europeans do NOT want to come to US, b/c country has no guaranteed free healthcare. Most people that come to US come from areas where the standard of living is at the level of North Korea.

[@z-greatwhatever1586]

I see tons of pregnant women… and tons of newborn babies in Las Vegas. Most of them don’t speak English. They like the government handouts.

[@lynnerussell4263]

Exactly and a lot dont speak English that are coming across the border

[@tobyhohenzollernfetherston6812]

huh? my mom's a white passing biracia (half indian half swedish) and she's barely fluent in english. Yet she has never experienced microaggressions, racial profiling etc. which a poc would face. yall just hate black and brown people 😒

[@jbalien20]

We need boomers to get out of the way. It's actually cheaper for our economy for them to retire as soon as possible. Millennials are more forgiving and would open more opportunities for others than boomers ever had.

[@Whoknowsme007]

Your parents taught you insufficient respect

[@danielhn93]

Exactly. The boomers need to get out of our way so we can actually flourish. The longer they stay, the more competition and less resources we have to live with. They had their fun and enjoyed a prosperous life, but now as they are close to their deathbed, they continue to hog up the things we need.

[@johnsamuel1999]

I wish the us made it cheaper and easier to immigrante legally especially for those who do bachelors or master in the us

[@spikefivefivefive]

So you think the US owes you something before you have even become a citizen? We don't owe you a thing.

[@Masterslessons]

Nah.

[@didiss400]

Nah

[@MaxBrix]

It's because we need more homeless people so bad we have to get them from other countries.

[@eyanosasioux9575]

As a immigrant and over 30 years here in the US I can say that my fellow Americans are not as hungry as I am to create, to make more money, to empower one’s self. Immigrants like me we have one single advantage. We are hungry we will do whatever it takes to take the opportunity. So to my fellow Americans get hungry or your job will be more ours than yours.

[@rd9102]

I like how they slipped in the climate change BS like it has something to do with anything about this conversation.