Tell It Like It Is
In today's Pioneer Press, Mark Yost continues his series on the causes of outsourcing. Today's focus: immigrants. In short, we're getting the wrong ones. Instead of basing entry on our national interest (that is, inviting in those likely to contribute positively to our way of life), we're basing it on other factors, like being nice and making sure recent immigrants get to bring with them every nut from their extended family trees.
Interesting stuff, of the sort not usually found on local editorial pages. Beyond the ideological perspective, you've got to love the way Yost serves it up straight, no chaser. Excerpt:
The net result of the 1965 change in immigration policy is that today's newcomers are dumber and less entrepreneurial than those immigrants at the turn of the last century who contributed so much to the economic hegemony of the United States.
The local Left is used to a little more mollycoddling, a little more sugar coating than that. Actually they're used to not hearing this perspective at all. As such, I expect to see squeals of protest and calls for fines and suspensions on the Letters to the Editor page. The only question is what they'll find to be more offensive, the characterization of recent immigrants as "dumber" or the characterization of American economic hegemony as a good thing.
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