think immigration

In the late 19th century, rich countries had incomes about 10 times greater than the poorest ones.
Today’s ratio is about 50 to 1.

The key to breaking the political deadlock is to ensure that
the migrants go home, which is why they should remain temporary workers ( About 7 percent of the rich world’s jobs are held by people from developing countries.

For starters, the poor should get another 3 percent, or 16 million guest-worker jobs — 3 million in the U.S.

They would stay three to five years, with no path to citizenship, and work in fields with certified labor shortages. We could ensure that most receiving countries would not allow them to bring families.

Taxpayers would be spared from educating the migrants’ kids. Domestic workers would gain some protection through the certification process. And a revolving labor pool would reach
more of the world’s poor.

Guest work the only way to accommodate large numbers. To insist that migrants have a right to citizenship and family unification, he says, is to let men in the rest of the world go hungry. It is cruel to be kind. The choice is theirs.

Let the poor decide. Letting guest workers in America doesn’t create an underclass.. It moves an underclass and makes the underclass better off. Rich countries have jobs. Poor people need work.