I'm reading an article about how a Japanese city council member is advocating that no social support go to non-citizens in his city. Regardless of their legal status to be in that city.
That sort of article always gives me "King for a Day" ideas...
America is a lot more complicated than Japan for immigration, granted.
We have some solvable problems, though.
An issue that a lot of people have is the large number of foreign nationals on our various welfare programs.
A significant number of those people are here because they have a relative who is legally here and working. H1B gateway to bringing in the entire extended family.
A small change would fix some of it.
Just make the people brought in under the family reunification portion of the statute ineligible for all the programs they're currently abusing.
YOU need your family here? Fine, YOU support them.
I know this method works because we've done it before.
We used to pay $x per child to American Indians living on the reservation. Said Indians started having large families until it was getting to be a budget problem for the agencies tasked with administering the reservations. So a two-child limit was imposed on the payment. Suddenly, it was rare to see a third child... Notice that nothing banned them from having more than two kids, just that there was no stipend for #3.
I also don't have a problem taxing into oblivion foreign nationals living here.
You cannot be a second class citizen until you are actually a citizen.
I want strong incentives for people to become Americans once they land here and to just as strongly encourage those who cannot to leave.
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