Andrew Yang on Immigration

Last night, the Democrats had their second debate on CNN. One of the debate participants was Andrew Yang. The participants were asked by one of the debate moderators about what they would do to stifle illegal immigration. Except for Yang, the Democratic participants foamed at the mouth to out-do each other in advocating that they were both for "border security" and allowing the illegal immigrants to enter the country unimpeded. That translates into holding two divergent opposing views at the same time. In turn, that translates into the respondents avoiding to answer the question by being disingenuously on both sides at the same time. Leaving the other Democrats behind, I move on to Yang's response.

Yang had a novel response, that was also Realpolitik. Yang (in part) responded: "If you go to a factory here in Michigan, you will not find wall-to-wall immigrants; you will find wall-to-wall robots and machines.". Though never explicitly expounded on by Yang, my interpretation of that comment is that the continued mass importation of (illegal) low skilled and poorly educated immigrants by the Democrats into the US will turn out to be a huge mistake. The reason is that these immigrants tend to have poor education and tend to lack today's work skills. Consequently they will be unable to find work in the US and will end-up being on taxpayer funded welfare. Unfortunately, the debate moderators never further delved into Yang's response. Yang's response, which could have been further discussed, implies that we could make legal immigration into the US skilled based. That would add to this countries economic base.

Additionally, we live in an environment of hyperbolic word parsing. Surprisingly, the media has evidently been silent on Yang's remarks. Had a Republican made a similar remark, that person would have been vilified by the media and accused of racism, xenophobia, and numerous other phobias.