I know how to solve the problems of the US&A.

[onodera]

Go back to your unrestricted immigration policy. Let anyone settle in the US just like in the 19th century, just don't let them claim any welfare benefits or apply for other social programs.
1. This solves the problem of illegal immigration by definition.
2. This lets you bring manufacturing back from Asia, improving your trade balance and economy.
3. This improves your reputation all over the world.

Any drawbacks?

[kentonio]

You'd end up with a permanent underclass of poorly paid, unsupported immigrant workers? Oh yeah, they already have that with the Mexicans..

[Felch]

I support a more open immigration policy. The only undesirables are notorious criminals, the infectious, and those loyal to hostile, foreign authorities.

[regexcellent]

Go back to your unrestricted immigration policy. Let anyone settle in the US just like in the 19th century, just don't let them claim any welfare benefits or apply for other social programs.
1. This solves the problem of illegal immigration by definition.
2. This lets you bring manufacturing back from Asia, improving your trade balance and economy.
3. This improves your reputation all over the world

Any drawbacks?

Mexicans are happy to come here and work for low pay so I don't see why we should stop them.

[Kuciwalker]

Go back to your unrestricted immigration policy. Let anyone settle in the US just like in the 19th century, just don't let them claim any welfare benefits or apply for other social programs.
1. This solves the problem of illegal immigration by definition.
2. This lets you bring manufacturing back from Asia, improving your trade balance and economy.
3. This improves your reputation all over the world.

QFT.

[Kuciwalker]

You'd end up with a permanent underclass of poorly paid, unsupported immigrant workers? Oh yeah, they already have that with the Mexicans..

Yes, precisely like the last time we had an open immigration policy!

Oh, wait...

[Kuciwalker]

By the way, onodera, there's another benefit: it would provide a massive boost to housing prices, substantially reducing our debt overhang.

[Hauldren Collider]

Go back to your unrestricted immigration policy. Let anyone settle in the US just like in the 19th century, just don't let them claim any welfare benefits or apply for other social programs.
1. This solves the problem of illegal immigration by definition.
2. This lets you bring manufacturing back from Asia, improving your trade balance and economy.
3. This improves your reputation all over the world.

Any drawbacks?

[Dinner]

We so need to loosen our immigration policy it isn't funny. ABC recently ran a story (the video is still on their website) about an Israeli immigrant who went to Stanford then wanted to start a travel website which was named "One of the top 20 start ups in Silicon Valley in 2011". This guy was investing money, started a business which was profitable and growing rapidly, he was creating jobs in America... And then they denied his visa application and had him deported. WTF? After ABC ran the story the immigration officials changed their mind and decided to let him in afterwards but how many more people are there like this? Right now to immigrate legally it often takes 10 years and something like $40,000 to $50,000. That's just insane and completely retarded so it's no wonder so many people opt to do it illegally because the legal way is so damn difficult.

We also have hundreds of thousands of foreigners who attend US universities, get advanced degrees, who want to stay (thus improving the US economy), but we refuse and kick them out. That doesn't even remotely make sense. If highly skilled people want to stay in the US then we should be making it very easy for them to do so but we're not.

http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/deported-stanford-grad-back-us-14978530?tab=9482931&section=1206834&playlist=1363932

[Hauldren Collider]

Holy ****, Oerdin didn't even blame Republicans

The immigration issue is bipartisan stupidity in the US btw.

[Dinner]

You're twice the hack I will ever be so stuff it.

[OneFootInTheGrave]

no drawbacks except that Americans of 21st century feel like Native Americans of 19th century in the face of unrestricted immigrations... they fear that they might end up being put into concentration camps and removed from their land to make place for the immigrants, new diseases may come to wipe them out like what happened to their predecessors and who knows what else...

[pchang]

Does Onodera want to emigrate again?

[onodera]

Does Onodera want to emigrate again?

Again?

[DinoDoc]

Let anyone settle in the US just like in the 19th century,

Once the Federal Government got control over immigration policy in 1875, they immediately started to set quotas.