[aiisahik]

What kinda immigrant are you talking about? The immigrant they are housing in NYC hotels who arrived with 3 kids from Venezuela?

Or the software engineer with a US college degree paying $>50k / year in income taxes to state and federal government?

Because you know that they are only restricting the latter type of immigrant.

[rayiner]

I think the immigrant with three kids from Venezuela is probably easier to integrate in a way than a skilled immigrant who was typically an elite back home. I think the latter folks are more likely to bring their culture with them and try to change America.

[Apocryphon]

Software engineers are notoriously apolitical, even if that has been changing gradually. Plenty of technical "elites" remain separate, aloof from social life. Are foreign born doctors trying to "change America?"

[aiisahik]

You're right actually. Have you seen how many Australian coffee shops there are in New York? Crikey! Changing America one cup of flat white at a time. Tough work.

[selimthegrim]

Let’s not even start on Australian sushi places.

[geodel]

> paying $>50k / year in income taxes to state and federal government?

Because anyone else employed for that role/ income would've not paid income tax or any other tax at all. Its to immigrants credit that they pay taxes when they could simply chose not to.