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Monday, July 31, 2023

A Broken Immigration System

America’s Broken Immigration System
https://www.cnn.com/videos/title-2438386

Don’t Blame Canada for Raiding America’s Tech Talent
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/08/01/canada-is-raiding-the-us-for-tech-worker-immigrants/8e06b5fc-3066-11ee-85dd-5c3c97d6acda_story.html
A dysfunctional immigration system is causing high-skilled foreigners to move north. Maybe US policymakers will notice.

 
Lionel Shriver notes:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-problem-with-the-bibby-stockholm-barge/
New York’s asylum seekers are provided with free health care, free NYC ID, help enrolling children in free public schools, free food, free legal counsel, as well as free accommodation in a city whose average rent for a two-bedroom flat is over $5,000 (£3,900) a month. Bike New York gives asylum seekers free bicycles.
Alas, these gratuities are not free for benefactors. The city is leasing each of the Roosevelt’s 1,025 rooms for 36 months at $200 a day, totalling $219,000 per room. For each migrant family, the average cost of emergency hotels is half as much again at $339 a day. The city expects to spend a budget-busting $4.3 billion on recent migrants

Immigration Backlashes Spread Around the World
https://www.wsj.com/articles/immigration-backlashes-spread-around-the-world-142124bc
Collapse of Netherlands government is latest sign of discord as immigration surges to record levels, fueling populism 

America’s broken immigration system has spawned a national fight, but Congress lacks the political will to fix it.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/06/19/bidens-dilemma-at-the-border