Print ArticleThere are those who are asking the question (Quote): "Should the U.S. allow for more lenient immigration policies toward highly skilled workers?"
In other words: Should we in the US continue "excepting" our way out of being a Nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity, and thus further into being a nation based on "making exceptions", such as that in a "caste" system (caste: separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank, profession, or wealth etc." from The American Heritage Dictionary), and thus also continue further into falsely claiming and pretending that much more to be a nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity?
If the answer to this question is "Yes", then why did we ever bother with our Revolutionary War to, among other things, separate ourselves from such systems where "exceptions" based on such things as "profession/skill level, etc." are the rule, and instead become a Nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity where any child born here could grow up to be "President" and nobody had to worry about the government making and imposing exceptions for anybody, such as that based on "skill level, etc"?
Likewise, if the answer to the question at hand is "Yes", then what about the disincentive such "making exceptions" presents to the overwhelming majority of native-born U.S. citizens, (including both those who are currently students and those who are already either in or legally elligible to be in "the U.S. workforce"), against their pursuing any education/training to become "highly skilled", and indeed against their pursuing/completing any "continuing education/training" to be always "more highly skilled"?
Also, what about the specter such "exception making" creates of, in effect, reducing business/job market opportunities in favor of "highly skilled immigrants" and thus against native-born U.S. citizens, whether there may or may not be such as "an employer´s job market (more job applicants than there are jobs)" at any given time?
Now it should at least begin to become evident that to say "Yes" to the question at hand would lead to continuing to "except" our way out of being a Nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity, and into "exception making" inequality under the law and unequal opportunity, after we fought our Revolutionary War to, among other things, separate and distinguish ourselves from such "exception making" systems!
So the answer to this question is most definitely no! It is time to stop this "excepting" our way further out of being a Nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity, and further into being a nation based on "making exceptions" based on "profession/skill level" etc, no matter how "politically expedient", etc, such "making exceptions" may be to anyone, including certain power-hungry politicians.
"We The People" are already shocked, amazed, and increasingly infuriated by formerly unimaginable "exception making" public and national policy propositions, policies, and practices which, when implemented, repeatedly prove both the folly of it and the fact that such "social engineering", and the promotion of it, is so convenient for power-hungry politicians for their gathering and cultivation of thus beholden, obliged, and dependant voters.
Thus of course "We The People" should be infuriated and determined to the point of action to stop such "making exceptions" so subversive to equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity.
So again the answer to the question at hand is "No" precisely because we must stop "excepting" our way out of being a nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity, and into being a nation based on "making exceptions", such as that based on "profession/skill level", no matter how politically expedient such "making exceptions" is for certain politicians and their allies.
Indeed we must finally insist "No more making exceptions" and/or making "special" or "new" laws accordingly; insist upon both equality under our Constitutional laws which are based on Judeo-Christian and Universal moral principles, and therefore insist upon the likewise most moral, equal, and just course of action there is...the vigorous, equal enforcement of the immigration laws we already have, without exception.
In other words: Should we in the US continue "excepting" our way out of being a Nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity, and thus further into being a nation based on "making exceptions", such as that in a "caste" system (caste: separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank, profession, or wealth etc." from The American Heritage Dictionary), and thus also continue further into falsely claiming and pretending that much more to be a nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity?
If the answer to this question is "Yes", then why did we ever bother with our Revolutionary War to, among other things, separate ourselves from such systems where "exceptions" based on such things as "profession/skill level, etc." are the rule, and instead become a Nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity where any child born here could grow up to be "President" and nobody had to worry about the government making and imposing exceptions for anybody, such as that based on "skill level, etc"?
Likewise, if the answer to the question at hand is "Yes", then what about the disincentive such "making exceptions" presents to the overwhelming majority of native-born U.S. citizens, (including both those who are currently students and those who are already either in or legally elligible to be in "the U.S. workforce"), against their pursuing any education/training to become "highly skilled", and indeed against their pursuing/completing any "continuing education/training" to be always "more highly skilled"?
Also, what about the specter such "exception making" creates of, in effect, reducing business/job market opportunities in favor of "highly skilled immigrants" and thus against native-born U.S. citizens, whether there may or may not be such as "an employer´s job market (more job applicants than there are jobs)" at any given time?
Now it should at least begin to become evident that to say "Yes" to the question at hand would lead to continuing to "except" our way out of being a Nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity, and into "exception making" inequality under the law and unequal opportunity, after we fought our Revolutionary War to, among other things, separate and distinguish ourselves from such "exception making" systems!
So the answer to this question is most definitely no! It is time to stop this "excepting" our way further out of being a Nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity, and further into being a nation based on "making exceptions" based on "profession/skill level" etc, no matter how "politically expedient", etc, such "making exceptions" may be to anyone, including certain power-hungry politicians.
"We The People" are already shocked, amazed, and increasingly infuriated by formerly unimaginable "exception making" public and national policy propositions, policies, and practices which, when implemented, repeatedly prove both the folly of it and the fact that such "social engineering", and the promotion of it, is so convenient for power-hungry politicians for their gathering and cultivation of thus beholden, obliged, and dependant voters.
Thus of course "We The People" should be infuriated and determined to the point of action to stop such "making exceptions" so subversive to equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity.
So again the answer to the question at hand is "No" precisely because we must stop "excepting" our way out of being a nation based on equality under the rule of law and equal opportunity, and into being a nation based on "making exceptions", such as that based on "profession/skill level", no matter how politically expedient such "making exceptions" is for certain politicians and their allies.
Indeed we must finally insist "No more making exceptions" and/or making "special" or "new" laws accordingly; insist upon both equality under our Constitutional laws which are based on Judeo-Christian and Universal moral principles, and therefore insist upon the likewise most moral, equal, and just course of action there is...the vigorous, equal enforcement of the immigration laws we already have, without exception.
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