“Before 1882, immigration to the United States was barely regulated at all. Passports weren’t required, and 98 percent of all immigrants to Castle Garden in New York Harbor were admitted. Citizenship was not as easy to acquire, but the concept of illegal immigration did not yet exist. Almost anyone who wanted to move to America [...]
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Bailout? Best would be more H-1B visas.
February 11, 2009In my last post I wondered what, if anything, our stimulus bent President and Congressmen were stimulating to make our country more productive, because only new production, or GNP growth, will provide new wealth and along with it more jobs. As things now stand the jobs that the stimulus package would create will not be [...]