even though nothing in america any longer can be apolitical it is unfair to say that people on the left love immigration. more accurate politically would be that people on the right (smartly) realized that it is election-advantageous to make immigration a political issue. hence on the button - several months before every election cycle there goes a caravan of immigrants that all MSM starts following from El Salvador and what not.
america needs immigrants, both ones coming through the soutern border as well as those flying in to JFK with the view of Statue of Liberty. both political parties are money-lobby driven and immigrants, both blue and white collar, are good for business.
When you have a mass of unemployed or underemployed citizens and you tell them (or show them) that the solution you concocted for their problem is to bring in more workers (directly expanding skilled immigration programs and in the case of illegal immigration... turning a blind eye) you made it a political issue, these people are now likely at odds with your discourse.
I can get behind the argument that MSM uses it this on every election cycle, but to deny that the US workers (both blue and white collar) are getting negatively affected by this is putting on a blindfold.
> ... both blue and white collar, are good for business.
That is a truism, of course more people consuming is good for business. The problem is defining "business", its side effects, and who owns it. There is a whole bunch of work on assessing the impact of immigration on local populations (a lot of it propaganda tbf), but reality is that something that benefits Twitter, Amazon, or Microsoft bottom lines might not be aligned with the interests of the workers in the same geographical areas, and this money might not trickle down at all (btw the failure of trickle down is a very common leftist argument...)
Bezos being able to import a bunch of devs might make him and the landlords in Seattle a bit more rich, but benefit none to Joe the recent graduate that needs a job to pay the bills and cannot really afford to retrain on another field with a more favorable supply/demand ratio.
I can get behind the argument that MSM uses it this on every election cycle, but to deny that the US workers (both blue and white collar) are getting negatively affected by this is putting on a blindfold.
not arguing this at all, I believe that H1B program is absolutely horrible for US workers and should be fully scraped or re-written to a law that makes sense. at present it hurts US employees and creates modern-day white collar slavery than only benefits the landlords and no one else
america needs immigrants, both ones coming through the soutern border as well as those flying in to JFK with the view of Statue of Liberty. both political parties are money-lobby driven and immigrants, both blue and white collar, are good for business.