Trump’s Trade Focus Muddles His Immigration Agenda
The president appears too focused on keeping out foreign goods rather than foreign nationals
Why does President Trump, contrary to his own administration’s policies, keep defending “high-skill” immigration?
In my latest column, I argue this strange rhetoric is caused by the president’s obsessive focus on making trade deals:
So what’s going on with the president? The most likely answer is that his laser focus on trade deals is clouding his rhetoric. Many of the countries he’s negotiating with want their citizens to continue to migrate to America. Trump, apparently caring more about maintaining a barrier to foreign products than foreign nationals, appears to be catering to these sentiments. In other words, he’s willing to prop up H-1Bs and student visas in order to make trade deals.
That should concern right-wingers. Limiting immigration matters more than random tariffs on Korean goods. The administration needs to get its priorities straight if it wants to make America great again.
Read the rest here.
Let’s pose the following about the Trump agenda.
1) he wants the low quality brown trash out
2) he considers the Indian consulting shops bring in very low quality h1bs a subset of low quality brown people
3) he genuinely wants to get genuinely skilled workers to come to the USA, especially if they have unique manufacturing skills
4) he needs to appear to be “not racist” while simultaneously deporting a lot of people and making big changes to the h1b system