Immigrant on the news
 

I saw a short broadcast today of a male immigrant in his early 20's that came from somewhere in the middle east. They interviewed him and he seemed highly motivated, wants to learn the ways of the new country, acted civilized like any of us natives. He said it very simple in a broken native language, either you want to learn and embrace the new country or you don't. If he keeps his act together he's going to get somewhere in life but at the same time I see 10 of thousands of others who don't, who ignores or don't care for various reasons or who just aren't motivated enough to learn the new ways.

This is the one immigrant who should get asylum, the rest who plays on the opposite field should get kicked out and back to their home country.

Your thoughts?

I think this is a very complicated issue.

We are a nation of immigrants surrounded by more, newer immigrants. I live in Northern California, just north of Sacramento, and it seems everyone here is recent immigrant. On my left is Kent and his Mexican wife (smoking hot btw), to my right is Oscar and they are from Columbia (his two kids just joined the US Army), and the guy across the street is a Highway Patrol officer and he is from Egypt. All of them speak flawless English.

We have some people who come to the US and integrate with our community. At the same time we have others who never do. It some areas there are entire immigrant populations - Chinatown and Little Italy, etc. In some cases it's scary. In other cases it's beautiful.

Years ago I worked with a programmer who was born in Egypt. He wanted to become a US citizen so I helped him study for his test. He invited me to his swearing in. If you are an American citizen and never gone to one of these.... It should be required. It reduced me to tears. People came from foreign countries with nothing but the clothes on their backs, and ten years later they own a house, a business, have a college degree, families, and kids.... These people live a great life because they are Americans.

My issue with immigration is the same I have with overpopulation.

People need to stop migrating to America, and American need to stop contributing to the world overpopulation.
Just stop having kids.
Many people should not be allowed to have kid regardless.

The problems will just get worse.

Automation will remove 30% of jobs, throwing many on welfare. Globalisation has already removed millions of jobs and replaced them with low wage or no job. Migration is just another hammer in the nail of working-class and middle-class lives.

Unless we stop migration and are prepared to pay more to keep people in work, we face the options of anarchy or a police state.

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