Lansing's plan for immigration and Detroit?

[Wesley Mouch]

In the NYT today.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/02/06/op...-solution.html

Their editorial board isn't on board, except as a way of arguing for broader immigration reform.

The NYTimes should consider becoming a regular at DYes. They'd fit right in.

"Such a limited visa program might also reinforce the misguided belief that highly skilled immigrants are the only ones worth the trouble. This is putting a velvet rope beside the Golden Door and saying: We’ll take you, you and you — not you. World-class entrepreneurs and scholars come from poor and blue-collar families, too."

Well, of course having standards excludes some people. We might like to help everyone, but sometimes you just have to work with something imperfect. The Times, like so many here, let their ideology get in the way of getting anything done.

[coracle]

I don't think the idea is to import Science, Technology, Engineering and Math immigrants to find jobs for themselves here in Detroit as much as it is the hope that some [[many) of them will start small entrepreneurial businesses that will employ people already here. If 10,000 of them could each magically start a small business that employed an average of 10 workers then we've got 100,000 new jobs. I've no idea what those start-ups could be - and that's probably why I've never started one myself. It sounds like a good idea but I think it will be a failure because people who can get by without a job don't need/want one. Living off the government is easier.