To avoid losing the context of my previous comment in this chain, here is the relevant excerpt:
> I don't think it makes sense to have an immigration system based solely on "high skill", because not every member of a family should have to be "high skill" for the entire family to move to the US.
Now moving on to what you said:
> Why shouldn't we try our best to make sure only net positives get in, and make sure they can't bring net negatives with them?
Making prospective will-work-as-a-condition-of-immigration human beings who provide for their families choose between
(1) staying outside of the US,
(2) sending their families better income from the US only to eventually leave the US and return to worse job opportunities, or
(3) sending their families better income from the US while resigned to live permanently separately from their families (semantics note: vacationing to visit one's family on the rare occasions when one can afford to do so does not count as "living temporarily with your family")
is inhumane: a nation should not permanently hold continued legal immigration status hostage to require will-work-as-a-condition-of-immigration human beings to undergo the potential mental, emotional, and social suffering of being physically apart from their families. There should be at least one additional option:
(4) having to work for a capped, meaningfully finite duration of time before one's family members can immigrate without being forced to take the will-work-as-a-condition-of-immigration pathway.
How is it “inhumane?” People who don’t want to leave their families behind, especially extended families, can simply choose not to immigrate. It’s not “inhumane” to make people stay in their own countries.
hn_acker|22 days ago
> I don't think it makes sense to have an immigration system based solely on "high skill", because not every member of a family should have to be "high skill" for the entire family to move to the US.
Now moving on to what you said:
> Why shouldn't we try our best to make sure only net positives get in, and make sure they can't bring net negatives with them?
Making prospective will-work-as-a-condition-of-immigration human beings who provide for their families choose between
(1) staying outside of the US,
(2) sending their families better income from the US only to eventually leave the US and return to worse job opportunities, or
(3) sending their families better income from the US while resigned to live permanently separately from their families (semantics note: vacationing to visit one's family on the rare occasions when one can afford to do so does not count as "living temporarily with your family")
is inhumane: a nation should not permanently hold continued legal immigration status hostage to require will-work-as-a-condition-of-immigration human beings to undergo the potential mental, emotional, and social suffering of being physically apart from their families. There should be at least one additional option:
(4) having to work for a capped, meaningfully finite duration of time before one's family members can immigrate without being forced to take the will-work-as-a-condition-of-immigration pathway.
rayiner|21 days ago
rangestransform|21 days ago