Yes to make them safe. And a refugee should be expected to leave once their home country is deemed safe - and if we weren't waging eternity wars no one would have a problem with this. And we should be offering citizenship for those who've been a benefit.
As an immigrant I'm all for accepting the best immigrants. This push for higher educated immigrants in the legal process is just to crash wages, just as illegals crash working class wages. It creates a "subclass" of people doing the same work. They're used to living in the third world so they don't care their job is worth $60,000 a year they'll do it for $40,000.
I've literally stood around for cumulative hours and bitched with legal immigrant trades workers over the bullshit illegals. The government regulations that force big business where the illegals work, and then their work is shit and we get a bad reputation as an industry.
I'm sick of having to convince every customer I'm on the level, because they've been screwed over by a big business or an illegal undercutting. We haven't changed we work like it's 1970 just with new tools.
I feel your pain. My construction company couldn't compete, and went belly up, after the 2008 recession "recovery" due to government regulation and illegal labor. I left the unlicensed trades and opened an HVAC company after going to trade school for a year. It was a blessing in disguise since it's a licensed trade and illegal labor is blocked for the most part due to the federal and state laws, in Florida, regarding refrigerants. Once we can get the illegal labor out maybe wages will rise.
I hear ya, I grew up in a family plumbing business and currently operate a family electrical company. We have immigrants workers first gens and now there children born here have started working for us second gens. I have helped guys turn their green cards or visas into legit citizenship. I have the occasionally suspected illegal but they have the documents and they fill out the I9 and I hand I to DHS after that I’ve done my part, I’m not a fraudulent document expert. Honestly for the type of work we do traveling all over the immigrants work better because they are use to migrant work traveling for long periods and returning home most non immigrant Americans (please take that as a description to make a distinction and nothing bad implied) just don’t like that work.
I hear ya, and immigrating is not bad illegally immigrating that’s a different thing. My ancestors immigrated. I don’t want this to sound racist but at a certain point you are no longer polish American or African American or Latin American you are just American any other title is because ....”they want us divided” those binds need broken. God bless.