▲ | BrenBarn 11 hours ago | |
I'll take your question in good faith. What I want is for people to be free to immigrate to the US if they are a) not known to be dangerous; and b) prepared to commit to the US and support it. That means I am more in favor of permanent immigrants than of migrant workers. In general there should be a low bar to clear to have a path to citizenship in the US. I think it makes sense to have various requirements that must be met along that path; I'd be fine with, for instance, laws that require people who are in that process to register, meet periodically with some official, pay an extra tax, etc. I also would support requiring immigrants to formally and effectively renounce any other citizenship upon receiving US citizenship. But the goal should be to get people to actually move here, permanently, not just be here. That is what improves the country: people committing their hearts and souls and investing their lives in the place where they live. So many of the great immigrant stories from the past took this form. I find it ironic that so much rhetoric focuses on ways to legalize migrant labor, because that seems like exactly what we don't want. |