This is just... wrong? We want smart people here in the US. We should poach them and entice them to come here by all reasonable measures.
Plus, people aren't having kids like they used to. So you need to replace population somehow. See also: Japan.
Plus, people aren't having kids like they used to. So you need to replace population somehow. See also: Japan.
I fear in Australia we are creeping towards a regressed, more limited form of democracy. Foreign workers who come here not as free agents, but within the constraints of a specific work contract are an ever increasing fraction of the population - a fraction that skews heavily towards non-professional working class - and have no access to political representation.
This leaves them vulnerable to exploitation, and that exploitation is used as an economic lever against the entire population.
I believe bringing people to work in our economies without a clear fast path to full citizenship is eroding citizenship for all.
Agreed. But ~90% of all permanent residencies approved have nothing to do with education or employment. It's just family reunification.
Also a good thing in and of itself.