Ask Slashdot: Reasonable Immigration Policy For Highly-Trained Workers? 357
davidwr writes "What are a reasonable temporary-worker or immigration-visa rules to apply to workers whose skills would quickly net them a 'top 20th percentile wages' job (about $100,000) in the American workplace, if they were allowed to work in the country? Should the visa length be time-limited? Should it provide for a path to permanent residency? Should the number be limited, and if so, how should we decide what the limit should be? The people affected are already likely eligible for special work-permit programs, but these programs may have quotas, time limits, prior-job-offer-requirements, and other restrictions. I'm asking what Slashdotters think the limits and restrictions, if any, should be. (Let's assume any policy to keep out criminals and spies remains as-is.)"
Re:Are the hars working and honest? (Score:3, Funny)
More importantly, can they spell?
"Hars working", sheeesh.
Re:I wasn't aware it was hard for them getting in (Score:5, Funny)
I was with you until your hyperbolic Mayflower comment. Half of them died before the first winter was over ...
Obviously, they did not have the appropriate skill set. They should have been turned back.
Re:With unemployment where it is at, send them hom (Score:4, Funny)
If I may make a modest proposal here... why send them home? Consider this: 40 million Americans live in poverty. 3.5 million American children are at a risk of hunger every day! Meanwhile, foreign workers are rich in fats and protein - a good part of which, I must add, coming from them being well-fed and well-cared for in an American society, courtesy of the American taxpayer! How can you possibly support shipping all those valuable nutrients to third world countries like UK and Germany when American citizens are dying without them? Not to mention all the CO2 emissions produced by planes flying them back.
Think of the children! Think of the environment!