Immigrants

Polls show that 73% of Americans want legal immigrants and this is presents an opportunity. Illegal border crossing during the eight years of the Obama administration and the four years under Trump averaged less than 50,000 per month. The past three years under Biden the average was 200,000. The new plan to fix the border calls for allowing 150,000 illegals per month. While this seems like a good move forward coming down from 200,000 to 150,000 it is not a solution. One group that is concerned about illegal migrants is unions as they see these people putting pressure to lower wages. The beauty of legal immigration is not only that it controls the issue but it can be merit based meaning the new immigrants will be people with high tech skills and will not directly compete with union workers. Canada has a merit based system and allows for 500,000 legal immigrants per year which would be the equivalent of 5 million per year in the United States. Canada requirement are Be under 30 years old. Hold at least two Bachelor's degrees or a Master's degree. Be able to demonstrate moderate to high English and/or French language proficiency (Canadian Language Benchmark [CLB] level nine or higher) Have at least three years of skilled work experience.