Has limiting the amount of asylum seekers or people coming over the border to claim asylum crossed your mind?
The number of asylum seekers is a tiny proportion of overall immigration of all types so we can basically ignore it.
Population vs housing imbalance in California is not driven by immigrants anyway. The bulk of those people are citizens born to citizens or green card holders. Even if you could stop illegal immigration and simultaneously remove all non-citizens and non-visa holders right now today... that only punts the problem down the road by less than a decade.
You don’t think that many people coming into the country has an impact on housing and rent prices?
The people coming over the border are doing so to escape poverty and harsh conditions from their respective country. I don’t think telling them to go buy a new house is gonna work at current US prices, and if you want the government to provide these new houses, then you really need to consider what the effect would be on inflation housing 9 million people at the current housing market would be.
The US has a dry foot policy specifically for Cuba, encouraging people to seek asylum in the US.
The US involvement in Central America - from Honduras in 2009 and before that encouraged migration and asylum servers, but that bell is hard to unring.
Has building more housing crossed your mind?
Importing masses of unskilled labor puts downward pressure on wages. This is basic supply and demand.
Citation needed
> They’re just not willing to work for pennies
What jobs pay pennies?
> This is basic supply and demand
In a universe where more people in the country doesn't also increase demand, sure. That's not the universe we live in though.
“Pays Pennies” is a common English phrase that means “a job that doesn’t pay well”. I.e. jobs they pay at or slightly above the minimum wage.
Why should native workers be displaced by those seeking asylum simply because the people seeking asylum are willing to work at OR BELOW minimum wage? I sympathize with their plight but to pretend that many of them aren’t economic migrants vs those who are actually fleeing imminent danger seems naive.
And before the argument is made: I absolutely support crippling fines for those employers who KNOWINGLY hire under the table to skirt minimum wage laws.
https://www.epi.org/blog/immigrants-are-not-hurting-u-s-born...
>>1) The unemployment rate for U.S.-born workers is the lowest rate on record ( 3.6% )
>>2) The rate of U.S.-born individuals aged 25–54 with a job is at its highest rate in more than two decades
>>3) Immigrants only make up 18.6% of the labor force.
By any metric you look at , it become obviously clear that immigration is not causing high unemployment among U.S.-born workers.