Chips or Fries?
AI or Clogged Pipes?
You can’t make this up! The two individuals pegged to create more government efficiency and have railed against immigration are lobbying for more immigrations for tech and science workers. I wonder why?
Is if because employing highly educated, foreign workers on special visas is how they both make their billions.
What about the people who work in US agriculture laboring to get produce out of the fields and to the markets so we can put them on our tables? Do Musk and Ramaswamy not equate food supplies to semiconductor chips?
How about the people who build our houses and commercial structures, repair our plumbing, replace our roofs, and build our roadways? The actual craftsmen whose skill and expertise American workers quit acquiring decades ago?
Should those foreign workers be included in the special immigration system?
Just this week, I had a plumber from Honduras solve a problem at my house. He was sent because my normal plumber is stuck in Mexico where he went to get his green card renewed, as is required. Our broken immigration system has stranded him for 6 months with no date for the situation to be resolved. All the while his American-born wife and kids have to make do without him and his income and family contributions.
What is different about the Mexican American plumber and an Asian or South Asian engineer? Is it because the plumber won’t make either of those two people more wealthy? Keep in mind that many of the workers at Mara Logo are on special visas!
And keep in mind that these guys are claiming a shortage of highly educated American workers, while they promise to shut down the Department of Education. If our students are getting out of college lacking in critical skills, why are they $1 Trillion in debt? Maybe the foreign workers are favored because they can be held hostage by their immigration status and under threat of being sent back.
If it is not clear to everyone, it should be. We are a nation of immigrants, but some are treated better than others. I contend that the contribution of a tech worker is not as valuable as the contribution of a plumber or farm worker. Try to eat a semiconductor wafer or unclog your sewer line with a pharmaceutical!
Questions
How many of you came into contact in the last month with a foreign worker or paid someone of unknown legal status, maybe to clean your house, fix your plumbing, make you a taco?
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Having lived in México for almost 9 years, we’ve met many bicultural families, some who live in both countries (MX & US). We’ve also met a few deportees through the years and as a whole, Mexicans are some of the kindest, most hardworking people I’ve ever met. I can’t imagine growing up in the US, then getting the rug pulled out from under you when you’re sent to a country with such a different culture (not better or worse, but just different than what you grew up with). It will be interesting to see how the next four years will play out for the two countries…
I couldn't agree more, but the first thing America needs is someone who can fix broken political parties. We have one that has thrown a bearing, and the other one throwing pity parties for itself.