Visas/Green Cards

Question:

instead of all the green cards/visa why not educate the people that were born here. You were great until this section. Vote going elsewhere. - Jed (Oakley, CA)

Answer:

Jed, I’m sorry I lost your vote because of this issue. But I will still reply.

I agree that we need to improve our education system to produce more STEM graduates, and have addressed your idea in the comments section of my X post about Legal Immigration Reform, which has over 64,000 views and 111 comments. The truth is that we have an immediate shortage in critical fields like healthcare.

Because of our broken education system the shortage will only get worse with aging baby boomers, chronic disease epidemic, growing substance abuse, and a rapidly increasing immigrant population, which threaten to overwhelm the healthcare system in the next 1-5 years. We need to maintain sufficient skilled workers or healthcare costs will increase for all Americans and quality of care will drop. Supply/demand.

That said, after my platform was released, I have made a few adjustments, including making all quotas market-driven. If there is a recession, quotas should be reduced in affected sectors to protect American jobs and those already here on visas.

I am working on a platform to fix our broken education system and hope to release it by the primary. I agree that this is the long-term solution, but will take years to push necessary reforms and properly-incentivized block grants through Congress. Without visa programs, Silicon Valley and companies that have created trillions of dollars of wealth and hundreds of thousands of jobs for Americans would not exist at the scale they do today. We need to fix our education system (and deeper cultural priorities and values) before we eliminate the programs.

Please note that I also have a Zero Illegal Immigration stance, which is in stark contrast to all the other candidates who are vague and have not proposed how to solve the problem. Twelve million illegal immigrants entering between 2021-2024 is a towering problem compared to 85,000+ skilled legal immigrants per year with a fair path to permanent residency.

I hope you will vote for who you believe is the best overall candidate, with the most stances in line with your own.

This is my full video on Legal Immigration Reform.

Submitted: 2/11/24
Answered: 2/12/24