Report suggests U.S. prosperity depends on increasing opportunities for immigrants
The Partnership for a New American Economy, a group of bipartisan mayors from across the country, released a report Tuesday that showed immigrants in the United States with degrees increase job opportunities for native citizens. However, current policy in the United States can make it difficult for foreign-born workers to establish themselves in the American workforce.
According to a recently released report, economic prosperity in the United States may be dependent on allowing increased job opportunities for immigrant.
A bipartisan group of mayors from across the country, the Partnership for a New American Economy, released four key findings from new research on immigration and the the economy.
- Immigrants with advanced degrees boost employment levels.
- Temporary foreign workers also increase employment.
- Immigrants largely do not "take our jobs."
- Foreign-born workers pay more in taxes than they receive in benefits.
While many are concerned about the current job market in the U.S. and the effect immigration will have on it, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg's chief policy advisor, John Feinblatt said there is no need for concern about immigrantion shrinking the number of available jobs.
"It just isn't the case," Feinblatt said. "I mean, the American Enterprise Institute, which as you know is a conservative think-tank, just put out a study with our immigration group that showed just the opposite. In fact, it showed that immigrants with advanced technical degrees that they earned in the U.S. created 2.6 jobs for Americans, so for every one foreign graduate from a U.S. university in science, technology, engineering or math fields, that meant 2.6 jobs for Americans. And even look at the other end of the spectrum: Every farm worker that we hire from a foreign country creates two to three jobs for Americans. Why wouldn't we want those jobs?"
Claudio Carnino, an Italian technology entepreneur, was denied funding for his start-up company because investors feared it would be hard for him to stay in the country, as there is no assurance that immigrants can return to the U.S. after their visa expires. Carnino instead decided to open his company in Chile.
"Chile is investing in 400 start-ups every year, giving them $40,000 for free, just in exchange of being here in Chile for six months. Plus the money — they are really helping because they are in creating a hub of technology here in Santiago, the capital, where we have a lot of access to experts in the field. We have access to a lot of other people doing the same thing, doing start-ups, so we are helping each other. And plus, there are big companies here that invest in start-ups and make partnerships with those start-ups," Carnino said.
Carnino commended Chile for investing heavily in foreign companies. John Feinblatt thinks many foreign countries are handling immigration better than the U.S.
"For instance, they are providing green cards to graduates of their universities that graduate in STEM fields. They are creating visas specifically for people like Claudio, what we call entrepreneur visas. If you've got someone with a great idea, and American capital to support them, we ought to give them a visa and see if that business has a chance of working," Feinblatt said. "But let me make this real. You know, all the economists estimate that, for instance, there will be about 780,00 openings in engineering and tech jobs. Well, if you look at what the U.S. is producing, they're only producing about 552,000 by the year 2018. That's a 230,000 gap. We're going to need to fill that in some way. It used to be the gold rush; now it's the talent rush."
With immigration reform and the economy being two key issues for the upcoming presidential election, it is likely that some policy change is forthcoming in the near future.
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WE CANNOT AFFORD TO ALLOW MORE POVERTY ENTER THE UNITED STATES.
Employment visas should only be granted to professional people and STEM workers (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) workers to the U.S. in an expedited process. The Constitutional TEA PARTY is gaining in power and will unseat liberal Democrat-Republican pro-illegal immigration politicians, derailing open border zealot ideologies. Lastly we must oversee all elections, as Democrats are indifferent to illegal aliens voting, which is carefully hidden; surf the Internet for information on voter fraud and ID theft that has been gaining momentum in the last two decades. Read the latest regularizes by zeroing in on Florida.
Alabama, as Arizona and the 48 states are up against the wall of harsh forced unfunded mandates by U.S. courts. Every state is confronted by billions of dollars to pay for illegal immigration in public welfare. The cost to Alabama for Costs for Illegal Aliens as studied by The Federation of American Immigration Reform (FAIRUS) it was $2.7 billion dollars owing to the growing illegal alien population. But of course nobody knows the true amount as figures for population and the costs to support these people are kept subdued. But the majority of Americans are well aware that according to studies of FAIRUS and other pro-sovereignty organizations, that annually the expenditure is well over $113 billion dollars. In addition organizations have completed their own studies, that if another Amnesty was enacted we would raise our U.S. treasury deficit from 16 Trillion dollars, by another 2.6 trillion dollars. Many groups and media aspire to offer information about the movement and costs of illegal immigration into this country, but much is not factored in to taxpayer’s outlay and intelligence which can be found at the websites of American Patrol and NumbersUSA.
Sen. Marco Rubio, Mitt Romney had better stick to their principles, and they promised the taxpayer that passages of new negative immigration laws will not be tolerated, but only those in the best interests of the people. Americans are frustrated with the draining of their money to subsidize any person who crosses the border, including the escalation of births to illegal aliens and then claiming citizenship when the annual figure is 400.000. Any thoughts of gaining passage of Amnesty by either party will condemn the majority of states to even more need for health care treatments, hospital inpatients for dialysis and serious surgeries all for free. These are more costs dumped eventually on taxpayers of uncompensated care from the central government. Awarding education for hundreds of thousands of illegal children, who can claim citizenship under a very shaky law, which is destined to reach the Congress thanks to Rep. King? In less than 15 years are schools are overrun by illegal children who cannot speak English, necessitating more time spent by teachers and therefore affecting the failing grades across the country in education.
Of all the politicians that must be thrown out of office, Senator Harry Reid of Nevada must go. Not only has he derailed a amendment to stop illegal aliens living in this country, receiving mostly fraudulent IRS child tax reimbursement, to the tune 0f 4.2 billion dollars, he has done nothing to halt the influx of foreign nationals occupying Nevada. The tired old lawmaker has guaranteed that those working in this country illegally will be sustain in receiving billions of dollars in tax reimbursement for children that are not even present in this country. He is responsible for stopping ICE from raiding the building construction sites, but clandestine inviting mass illegal aliens into the state. The TEA PARTY must adjoin to seat a new younger Senator leader in his place, as he is just one of the liberal-Democrats, involved in wrecking this country’s economic return.
By passing another Comprehensive Immigration Reform would devastate our economy. ICE prohibited programs as the Democrats Dream Act, the Sanctuary policies has its costs, to all taxpayers and further encouraging the exploitation of the American low income worker. Less enforcement also has a negative impact, as Obama administration stands down from proceeding with large scale ICE raids or the deportation of all individuals. Years of complete indifference by both political parties to securing the borders, interior ‘seek and detain’ has allowed large influxes of criminal illegal aliens, with many reentering time and time again. The fact that illegal alien expectant females are procuring even more billions of dollars in education and schooling for their children, if once stepping on to U.S. soil, or disguising their pregnancy when alighting from aircraft, with a design to take advantage of the ‘Birthright Citizenship’ law badly manipulated from its original intent.
There are obstacles in Congress by both sides of the aisle, but even so 59 bipartisan sponsors to amend this law. Similar is to mandate the very controversial E-verify bill, that instead of voluntary for businesses, so it becomes the rule of the land. That every business, no matter how large and small must authenticate their workers, showing they are eligible to work in the United States. This is a very strength of every voter, to stop the continuation of these wrongly enacted laws, to amend Birthright Citizenship, so one parent must be a U.S. citizen, by birth or naturalization. All voters must fight back and demand from your Senator or House Representative that E-verify must be implemented permanently and Birthright citizenship be amended.
Neither new law costs money, but will save absolutely billions in YOUR taxes. The controversial publicity around ‘Chipotle’ is typical of businesses that think they are above the law, when hiring workers. Cheap labor is for profiteers, who have no conscious hiring foreigners, when there are thousands of legal Hispanics who would in this recession; jump at a chance of a job? As an addition ‘Secure Communities’ is now a mandatory law, so all suspects taken into custody will have their fingerprints sent to Homeland Security and ICE. But we must push the idiots in Washington, to pass mandated E-Verify and the amendment to the Birthright Citizenship Act.
E-Verify as nationwide push of enforcement have a 98 % successful program, that detects foreign labor and unable to verify, they will start to expedite departure to their home countries. All these policies, rules and regulations is the agenda of the monumental growth of the Constitutional TEA PARTY splinter group of the Republican Party. Both entrenched parties are nervous of this rise of a national party, which they cannot control.
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