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by smm2000
4021 days ago
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Most good companies have extensive interview process to hire new employees - this is most direct comparison with getting new immigrants to the country. Comparison with having 12-30 million illegals in US is the Caltrain deciding not to eject drunk hobos living under overpass for tresspassing. Instead of getting immigrants compete on education/skills/job experience/employee referrals (aka relatives) like Canada, Australia or NZ, US allows unprofitable, illiterate and low skill immigrants into the country. |
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I don't have the numbers but looking at the amount of illegal immigration into Europe, and looking at what "jobs" most of the semi-legal (refugees, asylum seekers etc.) who also outweigh the amount of high skill labor coming into Europe I won't say this is a US specific problem.
I would also suspect that Canada with it's point based system has the same issue as well. Their immigration system is just more publicized and was given a priority especially during the late 90's and early 2000's since they felt like they were losing the competitiveness with US based companies.
Heck I've been to Canada 3 times in the past 5-6 years and the amount of what i would assume is "illegal" immigration in some of the cities there seems to also be quite high, quite a high percentage of Asian and African decent workers that don't speak English or French and seem to be very wary of people in general.