Comments on: Lack of vision on immigration and Constantine’s Edict of Milan https://marylandreporter.com/2014/09/16/lack-of-vision-on-immigration-and-constantines-edict-of-milan/ The news site for government and politics in the Free State Wed, 17 Sep 2014 19:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.2 By: Dale McNamee https://marylandreporter.com/2014/09/16/lack-of-vision-on-immigration-and-constantines-edict-of-milan/#comment-12806 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 19:18:00 +0000 https://marylandreporter.com/?p=23568#comment-12806 What I’d love to hear is how allowing unskilled/low skilled, illiterate, disease bearing “immigrants”,etc. benefits America ?

Also, these same persons WON’T become physicists,engineers, or any other high skill/high knowledge workers… They’ll be cheap labor to displace middle-class American workers…

They are draining our already “overtaxed” welfare/public services and what do we get from them ?

Mr. Douglas worked in Juarez,Mexico… How prosperous were its citizens ? Also, did he read Mexico’s draconian immigration policy towards immigrants. legal & illegal ? Mexico DEMANDS that immigrants have skills that improve Mexican society… It means that the immigrant should have a job or a certain level of income before they come there…

The US should have such a policy…

]]> By: paul rankin https://marylandreporter.com/2014/09/16/lack-of-vision-on-immigration-and-constantines-edict-of-milan/#comment-18869 Wed, 17 Sep 2014 13:49:59 +0000 https://marylandreporter.com/?p=23568#comment-18869 Although I agree with many of the points put forward by Mr. Douglas, he, like most other political commentators, offers not specific policy solutions but a number of time-worn tropes the likes of which we hear everyday from politicians and bloggers on both sides of the aisle. For example, here is a beauty: “We must find ways to integrate, reach out, share experiences, befriend and communicate.” OK. Let’s do that. Unfortunately, even after communicating and befriending, we are still left with all the same problems; a massively porous border; an oddly constructed immigration law that gives “rights” to some illegal immigrants but not to others, and regulations that prevent the emigration of needed technicians and scientists (e.g. computer programmers).

I respectfully ask Mr. Douglas to write a follow-up piece that outlines in specific some solutions to these problems. Such an article might start a useful dialogue.

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