President Trump was the target for sharp criticism after enacting a temporary but ongoing ban on immigration from predominantly Muslim countries. While President Trump has certainly earned his share of criticism for hostility to immigration, Americans shouldn’t forget that the Democrat Party plantation hardly cares for immigrants either. Both parties want a central strong state and naturally oppose the libertarian concept of open borders. It’s still a hardly-spoken of secret on the Left that President Obama’s administration deported 29% more undocumented immigrants than George W. Bush’s administration.
Democrats will oppose open borders just as easily as the most conservative Republican. Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton both voted for the Secure Fence Act of 2006. Democrat Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren just recently introduced a bill that removes the per-country cap on H1-B visa applicants, but it also more-than-doubles the minimum salary of applicants to $130,000. If passed, the only other way applicants can get their H1-B visa is for the company hiring them to pay the government an extortion fee of 200% the applicant’s annual salary. Therefore, companies would be paying three times for the value of one highly skilled worker. This economy-killing legislation could have been pulled straight from a chapter of Atlas Shrugged.
Physicist Michio Kaku claims that the ongoing Information Revolution has a weakness, and that weakness is America’s educational system. “If the stupid index of America keeps rising every year… how come the scientific establishment in the United States doesn’t collapse?
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