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sc94597 on 26 November 2015
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Lawlight said:
sc94597 said:

The economy isn't a zero-sum game. Often immigration creates more opportunities, especially for people interested in higher-level positions. 

Your solution costs a larger drain on the economy than just letting people come here and make something of themselves (like all of our ancestors have done.) The protection, food, water, etc will be funded by taxpayer dollars and/or inflation. Both of these harm the livelihood of American taxpayers much more than the small possibility that somebody who doesn't speak English and doesn't have any first-world skills: technical or labor, will steal jobs from Americans. These people who come here will have to create new jobs to survive that take advantage of their culture and their skills.


Ther'e's a difference between a refugee and a skilled migrant. In Australia. 60% of refugees could not get a job after 5 years in the country and just live off of the tax payer's money.

Which is my point. They aren't going to get a job unless they build their own business or develope their skills as many other immigrants do. For example, I recently read a story about Iranian-Americans who have a family rug making business fighting eminent domain. In the U.S there aren't as extensive welfare programs that refugees can take advantage of, so in order to survive they are going to have to be innovative and creative like the thousands of immigrants (many of whom were refugees from religious persecution) that have come here in the past. Also half of the funds to bring them here are privately contributed. I can see Syrian restaurants, Syrian crafts and materials, etc becoming a thing here like the many other cultural businesses. That should be enough to sustain themselves for a generation, and then future generations become americanized. The issue for Europe (asylum) is different from the issue for the U.S (refugees) in both scope and the type of people coming over, as well as the nature of business and overall economic differences.