Comments by "Snack Plissken" (@snackplissken8192) on "Why Is Immigration a Problem in the U.S.?" video.

  1. If Covid-19 was the cause of the mass immigration into the US, why did it start in 2021, and why is it increasing as the virus has been decreasing and the effects of Covid policies have been wearing off? The immigration started ramping up when the Remain in Mexico policy was abandoned, and it rose again when the Covid Title 42 Program that allowed for the expulsion of asylum seekers ended. Legal immigration is way too hard in the United States and needs to be made easier as illegal immigration is made harder so that the delta between the two will shrink. This will make human trafficking (which goes hand in hand with drug trafficking) less profitable, while allowing higher immigration levels that businesses want. Of course, reforms in higher education to focus on useful education would reduce the need for skilled immigration and reform of public benefits and wage controls (like allowing welfare recipients to do low paid work while keeping their benefits) would help to reduce the need for unskilled immigrants without hurting the young and the poor. Also, blaming the poorest people in America, the young and underprivileged minorities, of deliberately attacking unskilled illegal immigrants by applying for entry level jobs is a morally repugnant argument. Hiring a Venezuelan to work under the table so you can avoid hiring a black person for minimum wage is the kind of thing that both the left and right find offensive, albeit for not entirely overlapping reasons.
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