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A problem with skilled immigration is that we have gotten away with fucking up our domestic education system. Professor and grad school salaries are shit now because we know that some smart Chinese or Indian person will be willing to do that for peanuts
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Anonymous 6w

Not really, in my PhD atm. Grad school salaries are shit bc of changes in academic labor laws to allow more adjuncts and prioritization of funds towards increasingly bloated administrations. International students work more in the labs sure, but it’s open application with enforced equal salaries by union arrangements. I was born here and I’m genuinely good at what I do, my international peers are too, and no one wants to work with an incompetent or unqualified person. Standards are necessary

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Anonymous 6w

It’s not the immigrants’ fault tho. It’s the government’s fault for subsidizing it and companies’ fault for chasing the race to the bottom. And it’s not something that can simply be fixed by band-aid regulation and certainly not policies which attack immigrants, we need overhaul and policies which attack businesses.

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Anonymous replying to -> .gaia. 6w

Penalize them for hiring foreigners, scrutinize their profit motives and margins, and if they don’t like the penalties and think of relocating outside of the U.S., threaten to close them out of the American market. Also expand anti-trust laws way beyond their bounds and threaten to break up large corporations if they don’t comply. Also for the hell of it, overturn citizen’s united so they can’t funnel money into the government to put it in their favor

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Anonymous replying to -> .gaia. 6w

Oh yeah of course. These guys are brilliant and help our nation out tremendously. It’s just that they are used as a way to basically gut our education system because we know we can just have some smart people from poorer countries immigrate here who will work harder for less in exchange for a green card. The easiest way to fix this is to make a system that gives green cards before the immigrants come here rather than having them be stuck on some h1b type situation for years before green card

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