![]() ![]() Think you would have had the same benefits and opportunities? Not saying we shouldn’t let some big guys in but if you look at the makeup of the school that I went to now vs. ![]() back when I graduated it’s very clear there are spots being taken up by high achieving people from overseas. Some of this is good but there does need to be limits to keep opportunity for those born here. If there were better basketball players that could beat me, then the coach should have selected them.Sure that might be good for the school and for the alumni who care about their team winning but it’s not good for the guy who is a US citizen who didn’t make the cut. It removes opportunity for people born here who quite frankly should be first in line.Taken to an extreme there is very likely enough people in the world of higher caliber (you have billions to select from) and motivation than those in the US to be able to take every single slot in our schools or for that matter entrepreneurial opportunities. Nobody thinks that there shouldn’t be some people that are allowed here (or that it benefits us (sure it does) or raises the game if sports). This article is part of the Debatable newsletter.But there is no question that limits are needed it’s only a matter of where the line is drawn.And try telling the high school kid that doesn’t get a slot because he isn’t as good as some kid from overseas who took it. You can sign up here to receive it on Wednesdays. President Biden came into office promising a decisive break from the harsh immigration policies of his predecessor. “We’re going to work to undo the moral and national shame of the previous administration that literally, not figuratively, ripped children from the arms of their families - their mothers and fathers at the border,” he said shortly after his inauguration. ![]() In particular, he pledged to “restore humanity” to the asylum system, which under President Donald Trump had become a tool, his campaign said, for “bullying legitimate asylum seekers.”Īnd yet it was only this month that the administration announced it would end in May a Trump-era emergency public health order, known as Title 42, that allows authorities to turn away unauthorized migrants from the nation’s borders, effectively depriving them of their right to claim asylum. ![]() The order has been used to carry out more than 1.7 million migrant expulsions. The reversal is of a piece with a larger disconnect between the president’s rhetoric and his government’s policies on immigration, which has earned him attacks from all sides: from Republicans and moderate Democrats who warn of chaos at the southern border and from progressives and immigration advocates who have criticized the administration for failing its mandate to construct a more humane immigration system. The mess Biden inherited - and the mess he madeīiden has made good on some promises to reverse his predecessor’s crackdown on legal immigration, such as rescinding a proclamation banning the entry of foreigners on work visas and extending the time that foreign graduates can work in the country. But when pressed about the southern border, the White House has blamed the previous administration for having “completely dismantled the asylum system.”Īs Sarah Stillman reported for The New Yorker last year, the Trump administration did indeed severely weaken the asylum system, often in ways that were invisible to the public. ![]()
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