Rain Trueax

I've a blog friend named Rain and I highly recommend that you look in on her blog https://rainydaythings.blogspot.com/. She is a beautiful writer. Covers religion, history, politics and nature, and she does it extremely  well. I've been absent for a while and I've just started to reconstruct some of my old favorites. First thing I discovered was that Rain recently wrote an excellent article about "IMMIGRATION". So good that it led me to look beyond the headlines and I discovered several facts that I had wrong or twisted. 

For example I learned that the largest number of immigrants in 2016 came from India, followed by China and Mexico. I had thought Mexico or China would be first. Also that restrictive immigration laws in 1921 and 1924, coupled with the "Great Depression" and World War II, led to a sharp drop in new arrivals. I thought this happened after the great depression. Wrong again.

Then, since about 1970, the number of immigrants has risen rapidly with increasing numbers largely from Latin America and Asia - made possible by the Immigration Act of 1965, which abolished the national origins admission quotas. Between 2010 and 2016  almost 43.7 million immigrants have entered the United States and about half of them were naturalized citizens.

The remaining half, about 22 million, were:
                 1.  lawful permanent residents
                 2.  unauthorized immigrants
                 3.  legal residents on temporary visas (students and temporary workers)

Another fact I found that surprised me was that in 2016:  
                  1.  30 percent of the 38 million immigrants aged 25 or older had a bachelors 
                      degree or higher, and 
                   2.  of U.S. born adults over 25, the average was 32 percent.

In 2016 Educational attainment varied widely by country of origin:
                    1.  78 percent arriving from India had at least a bachelors degree.
                     2.  74 percent arriving from Taiwan had at least a bachelors degree.

                     Note: By comparison just under 32 percent of U.S. Born had a bachelors
                     degree of higher.

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Unsupported comments from blogs:

@ About half of all agriculture workers are now undocumented immigrants.

@ The VISA Lottery Program brings in about 50,000 immigrants per year.

@ Most citizens believe "chain migration" should stop and be replaced by "merit migration"

@ Americans generally support a path to legal residency for most illegal immigrnats.

@ Family separations occur when adult immigrants illegally cross America's borders with children and are judged as criminals. This law has not been enforced until recently, and is now considered unsatisfactory, wrong, and a bad law.  I question this?

@ Today the adults go to jail before being returned, and the children go to 

properly established holding locations before sent back to their families.

@ Most immigrants are fairly religious and oppose unlimited abortion.

@ Hispanics IQ scores are lower than whites and higher than blacks.

@ If you import low average IQ populations you become a low average IQ country.

@ Many Americans beleive that if those who employ illegal aliens were also crimals and punished, it would discourage many from coming to this country.

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My take

We Ameicans have a problem. We want immigrants to come to us but not in numbers that would unbalance our national standards. We appear to agree that human beings from around the world have roughly similar abilities to make a positive contribution to civilization. The notion that we should restrict immiigration by nationality, by intelligence, by educational attainment, by religion, and so forth - is probably not what we should be doing. What then is the answer to uncontrolled immigration and overwhelming numbers of immigrants.

First, and urgent, we must establish more carefully reasoned immigration laws - and erase the present ones.

Second, we should not restrict the numbers of immigrants from any country, area, or religion. 

Third, to protect our (hard fought for) general economy and standards of living we do need to restrict the numbers of immigrants.

Fourth, we should permit:

1.    No habitual criminals, and none that have had a criminal instance within the last five years.

2.    We should have preference for a family or member of a family that has an American citizen to sponsor them.

3.    All immigrants should be required to become American citizens within one year, and renounce their allegiance to their original birth country at the time American citizenship is granted.

4.     All immigrants should agree to recognize ENGLISH as the nations language and learn and speak it at home and in public.