By now most people who are familiar with the immigration issue know how badly our system is messed up for people who try to obey the law. Well, one thing that a lot of countries get right, that we just don't get, is the need to encourage single immigrants, not families, to immigrate. From what I've read on the issue, most of the anglosphere has laws that are biased toward single men and women with skills, as opposed to bringing families over. We should do that here, as it would make for a great policy that would encourage better immigration.
In the past I've castigated other libertarians and some types of conservatives for failing to realize that opening up the borders to more immigrants without controls on welfare and education spending would be an unmitigated disaster in the long run for combating socialistic policies. One of the best things that could be done would be to change federal immigration law to be very open to single people or childless marriages, and very prejudiced against immigrants with children. The logic behind this is simple: their non-citizen children will be a burden on their local and state governments. A single man or woman from India, for example, brings no one who may depend on local and state resources for education. The same is true for a childless, professional couple.
This sort of policy change would encourage immigrants who are productive, and not likely to access state and local benefits until they are a more permanent part of the community. It would also encourage integration by making many immigrants have to date and marry American citizens, and thus become part of our society on that level. This is a reform that we really need to fix our broken immigration system.
In the past I've castigated other libertarians and some types of conservatives for failing to realize that opening up the borders to more immigrants without controls on welfare and education spending would be an unmitigated disaster in the long run for combating socialistic policies. One of the best things that could be done would be to change federal immigration law to be very open to single people or childless marriages, and very prejudiced against immigrants with children. The logic behind this is simple: their non-citizen children will be a burden on their local and state governments. A single man or woman from India, for example, brings no one who may depend on local and state resources for education. The same is true for a childless, professional couple.
This sort of policy change would encourage immigrants who are productive, and not likely to access state and local benefits until they are a more permanent part of the community. It would also encourage integration by making many immigrants have to date and marry American citizens, and thus become part of our society on that level. This is a reform that we really need to fix our broken immigration system.
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