I find it interesting that the very same people who claimed to support only skilled legal immigration are all but banning it outright. Meanwhile, they are expediting H2 visas for unskilled migrants.
At any rate, the history of this issue is clear: America benefits from immigrants, always has. At least if we look at American history in economic/growth/technological terms. Of course, that neglects the social element, which seems to be the salient factor for many.
It's almost as if the nation can only handle ~15 percent non-native population before xenophobic sentiments rise to the fore. America seems to bounce up against that threshold throughout its history.
To cull those people, here uninvited, who add to the fabric of our society and are otherwise law-abiding contributors, is tantamount to shooting ourselves in the bloody foot. America, We the People, are the less for it because their lives and contributions embody the very justification for America’s genesis and our place in the world to begin with.
I believe, though it would certainly slow the roll of the culling, we would be better served to practice “Catch and Release” for those folks here uninvited but who positively contribute in all other ways. Yes, they may spend some time in lock-up while ICE does their due diligence to determine if they’re keepers, and if so, issue conditional green cards on the spot; the condition being they return to their contributory lives and complete the naturalization process within n-time else get deported.
Yes we would have to enhance the naturalization process to ensure those in it through legal means remain first in line but such that the process can handle more workload. And yes, it is going to cost us —- for a while. However, I believe the value of positive contributors to our society far outweighs the cost to keep the keepers.
Finally, I know where there is nearly one billion dollars available to fund such a worthwhile exercise; sweep the uninvited incarcerated felons from California’s prisons. The 2025-26 budget commits over $100,000 per incarcerated individual and there are over 100,000 illegal aliens in the prison population. Sweep them out and send them to El Salvador at $26,000 per head represents a huge savings. Repeat in every State’s prison system and pool the committed monies to fubd saving the keepers makes a helluva lot more sense to me relative to actual return on investment in cash, effort, and American social value.
Any rational opposing arguments anyone would care to float? If none of consequence, start talking it up and writing letters to your elected representatives. Maybe this pogrom against high-value keepers can be tempered before it is too late and we have done irreparable damage to our collective foot.
There are folks who positively contribute to society by joining and there are those who contribute by leaving. Any argument there? Okay then. Those who are here, residents according to our Constitution, are subject to due process whether the current administration likes it or not. Any argument?
What’s supposed to be a program to recruit top tier global talent descended in to a morass of Indian consulting chop shops that spammed the h1b application process with a bunch of low quality positions and candidates.
The imposition of the $100k application fee combined with changing it from a lottery to prioritizing by salary will restore the h1b program to its intended purpose. Companies wanting to recruit top tier talent and pay for it will no longer get undercut by app spammers.
The rest of the anglosphere went all in on "mediocre white collar workers from India" for the last decade and it was a total disaster. We don't need theory anymore, we have empirical results.
Beyond that. East Asia has an IQ advantage on the west and yet they massively under perform (total factor productivity, frontier discovery, and total fertility rate are all massively lower). And that's East Asia, which is MASSIVELY better than some shithole like India.
High IQ people need more than IQ. They need traits that allow for positive sum entrepreneurial ingenuity and cooperation. Otherwise their IQ gets appleid to Red Queen races at best and scumbag exploitation at worst.
It’s common knowledge that East Asian iq is 105 versus the white average if 100. Despite this all of the mature west east asian societies have topped out at like 60% of our gdp/capita despite cannabilizing their future demographics and working themselves to suicide.
Indian iq is a more complicated because they are a caste society that has had highly separate breeding pools for a long time and not a single race. The rough consensus is that the average iq is 76. There might be some minorities with a higher average, say the Brahmins in the 90s somewhere.
In the last decade or so other anglosphere countries like Canada or the UK made a big bet that India had a deep talent bench and that the higher castes had jew level iqs, but they turned out to be wrong. The talent drop off is pretty sharp once you start to increase quantity.
I find it interesting that the very same people who claimed to support only skilled legal immigration are all but banning it outright. Meanwhile, they are expediting H2 visas for unskilled migrants.
At any rate, the history of this issue is clear: America benefits from immigrants, always has. At least if we look at American history in economic/growth/technological terms. Of course, that neglects the social element, which seems to be the salient factor for many.
It's almost as if the nation can only handle ~15 percent non-native population before xenophobic sentiments rise to the fore. America seems to bounce up against that threshold throughout its history.
I’ll continue, thank you very much Substack.
To cull those people, here uninvited, who add to the fabric of our society and are otherwise law-abiding contributors, is tantamount to shooting ourselves in the bloody foot. America, We the People, are the less for it because their lives and contributions embody the very justification for America’s genesis and our place in the world to begin with.
I believe, though it would certainly slow the roll of the culling, we would be better served to practice “Catch and Release” for those folks here uninvited but who positively contribute in all other ways. Yes, they may spend some time in lock-up while ICE does their due diligence to determine if they’re keepers, and if so, issue conditional green cards on the spot; the condition being they return to their contributory lives and complete the naturalization process within n-time else get deported.
Yes we would have to enhance the naturalization process to ensure those in it through legal means remain first in line but such that the process can handle more workload. And yes, it is going to cost us —- for a while. However, I believe the value of positive contributors to our society far outweighs the cost to keep the keepers.
Finally, I know where there is nearly one billion dollars available to fund such a worthwhile exercise; sweep the uninvited incarcerated felons from California’s prisons. The 2025-26 budget commits over $100,000 per incarcerated individual and there are over 100,000 illegal aliens in the prison population. Sweep them out and send them to El Salvador at $26,000 per head represents a huge savings. Repeat in every State’s prison system and pool the committed monies to fubd saving the keepers makes a helluva lot more sense to me relative to actual return on investment in cash, effort, and American social value.
Any rational opposing arguments anyone would care to float? If none of consequence, start talking it up and writing letters to your elected representatives. Maybe this pogrom against high-value keepers can be tempered before it is too late and we have done irreparable damage to our collective foot.
There are folks who positively contribute to society by joining and there are those who contribute by leaving. Any argument there? Okay then. Those who are here, residents according to our Constitution, are subject to due process whether the current administration likes it or not. Any argument?
What’s supposed to be a program to recruit top tier global talent descended in to a morass of Indian consulting chop shops that spammed the h1b application process with a bunch of low quality positions and candidates.
The imposition of the $100k application fee combined with changing it from a lottery to prioritizing by salary will restore the h1b program to its intended purpose. Companies wanting to recruit top tier talent and pay for it will no longer get undercut by app spammers.
It didn't work.
The rest of the anglosphere went all in on "mediocre white collar workers from India" for the last decade and it was a total disaster. We don't need theory anymore, we have empirical results.
Beyond that. East Asia has an IQ advantage on the west and yet they massively under perform (total factor productivity, frontier discovery, and total fertility rate are all massively lower). And that's East Asia, which is MASSIVELY better than some shithole like India.
High IQ people need more than IQ. They need traits that allow for positive sum entrepreneurial ingenuity and cooperation. Otherwise their IQ gets appleid to Red Queen races at best and scumbag exploitation at worst.
It’s common knowledge that East Asian iq is 105 versus the white average if 100. Despite this all of the mature west east asian societies have topped out at like 60% of our gdp/capita despite cannabilizing their future demographics and working themselves to suicide.
Indian iq is a more complicated because they are a caste society that has had highly separate breeding pools for a long time and not a single race. The rough consensus is that the average iq is 76. There might be some minorities with a higher average, say the Brahmins in the 90s somewhere.
In the last decade or so other anglosphere countries like Canada or the UK made a big bet that India had a deep talent bench and that the higher castes had jew level iqs, but they turned out to be wrong. The talent drop off is pretty sharp once you start to increase quantity.