Trump campaign adds caveats to his green-card proposal for noncitizen college grads (msn.com) (This link will eventually expire at MSN, unfortunately).
“[What] I want to do, and what I will do, is you graduate from a college, I think you should get, automatically as part of your diploma, a green card to be able to stay in this country. That includes junior colleges, too,” Trump said in the episode, which was taped on Wednesday.
This is kind of where things will eventually head since we no longer have sufficient births in the U.S. to maintain our labor pool and to generate income taxes to pay for future promised benefits. The result is the U.S. will undergo a large demographic shift.
- In the early 1970s, just 4.7% of those living in the U.S. were born abroad.
- Today, 15% of those living in the U.S. were born abroad.
- By 2040, 100% of U.S. population growth will come from immigration as births – deaths is then a negative number, meaning the U.S. population born in the U.S. is shrinking.
- By mid-century, perhaps 20+% of the U.S. population will be foreign born.
Universities prefer to enroll foreign students – the University of California and the University of Washington increased the percent of enrollment coming from foreign students – because foreign students pay full tuition. Couple this with the demographic of a smaller young cohort, but that many Americans are questioning the cost of college and whether it makes financial sense. Universities have a strong bias to support the “staple a green card” to the diploma proposal.
This means profound social changes for the U.S. as the U.S. already lacks a common shared culture. (Basically, the U.S.’s primary cultural attribute is “freedom”, but that too is under pressure – look at the last 4 years and the push to censor online speech.)
Further, due to changing values, impressions and media propaganda, being born in the U.S. may be seen as a negative attribute versus those who are international, multi-cultural, global and speak 2 or more languages, and are able to navigate global cultures with greater ability, and to identify and pursue global opportunities. In some work fields, this is already true.
This will accelerate in the next 5-10 years as the % of those who are international (foreign born) increases; the % is already at the highest level in 200 years and is only climbing higher.
