Immigration
"Immigration is not just compatible with but is a necessary component of economic growth." (Dave Reichert)



Immigration is good. It is the natural flow of people across the world, within or between countries, and offers to regions new skills, techniques, knowledge, and diversity. Our forefathers understood that and this is why America had a free immigration policy for decades before beginning to restrict it. The greatest booms in our economical history were made during free immigration periods that provided new labor, new consumers, and new producers to the United States. In fact, what immigration brings is a dynamism of the national economy. Unfortunately, the current leadership in Washington believes that free immigration can only bring less job opportunities for citizens, violence, and a loss of patriotism.

Every year, thousands of people from dozens of foreign countries come to America in hope of a better life, a new start with new opportunities. Yet, their demands are often met with denial and reject by national authorities. One tragic example is that of the MS St. Louis, a ocean liner that carried 930 Jewish refugees from Germany in 1939 and that was denied access by US authorities, leading to its return to continental Europe and the following execution of many of the refugees during the Holocaust. Who are our leaders to deny people from living in the same country as them?

What we need is a true immigration reform that involves more open borders.
  • Relax immigration laws to allow more people into the country. More immigrants means more jobs, more consumer spending, and new business opportunities to introduce dynamism into our economy.
  • End welfare distribution to visa or Green Card holders. Immigrants shouldn't come to the United States for free health care and education but rather for working and economic opportunities. 
  • Reduce the size of Immigration Services to deal with the problem of bureaucracy. The latter brings not faster but slower results and many incoming immigrants have been waiting for years for a simple visa that would allow them to work legally in America.
  • Today, there are dozens of millions of people living illegally in the United States. Their deportation would be costly, unfair, and inhumane. However, there should be no amnesty as they would too easily be entitled to government help, which many people still oppose as the money comes from citizens' pockets. In exchange, the government should give a short period (of four years) during which all illegal immigrants should be able to ask for and receive a working visa.
  • End the subsidies to those companies that want to build a fence on the border of Mexico and the United States. There was no fence before George W. Bush and the situation on the border was not as tragic as it is now. If individuals with property on the borderline wish to put fences on their own, they should be entitled to, but the government of the US has no business in subsidizing a fence that is useless anyway.