Social Mobility: Does the U.S. have a problem?

[Canadian Visitor]

The problem with enforcement is we now have a large part of the country protesting to abolish the very agency that enforces the laws when it comes to employers,that is thier back door into expanding employment of illegals.

If ICE went after EMPLOYERS, instead of the employees they would achieve the desired outcome without all the bad press, and at much less cost.

How about if we say and do what other countries do,if you are caught in this country illegally it is an automatic 10 years prison,you have no rights because you are not a citizen.

What country in the developed world has this penalty?

Canada will deport you, not jail you indefinitely.

Why would you want to keep someone in jail, never mind compassion, its expensive.

Say what you want,Trumps rhetoric worked,when he took office the Mexican crossing dropped to almost nothing,the ones at the border are from every other country that are playing Americans like puppets in order to cross.

Mexican migration has largely been net to Mexico over the last several years. [[vis a vis the US)

That happened long before Trump.

The current issue is w/folks from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala.

....which in turn opens up the low wage jobs for high schoolers.

Why do we want HS aged teens working during the school year? Studies show they are LESS likely to graduate, and less likely to go to college when you do that.

Summer jobs yes, year-round no.

Capping access to cheap labour, including HS students helps raise the average wage of those who remain.

I would suggest limiting the work hours of anyone under 18 without a HS diploma to a maximum of 12 hours per week, and no work before 4pm on school days, or after 9pm on school nights.

I will leave it up to Pams group to come up with a feasable healthcare solution,keeping in mind the disarray that everybody's universal healthcare is crashing in some form or another.

Whose healthcare is in disarray? Overall care here, and in most other OECD nations is excellent.

Yes, we have wait times for elective procedures, and it would be nice if they were shorter, we've also got some crowding in some hospitals, which is being addressed.

But overall the care is good.

At any rate, not relevant as I don't see the US going the full S-P route anytime soon, the question is what steps in that direction can be passed that will move the needle.