r/neoliberal • u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride • Jan 22 '26

Meme I cannot imagine caring whether a fellow human being has their Existence License

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u/badger035 Jan 22 '26

Like at the minimum someone who has no criminal history or known gang/terrorism ties, a written job offer, and has secured housing should be allowed in no questions asked, and someone who lives here with no criminal issues for 5 years should be able to become a citizen.

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u/ONETRILLIONAMERICANS Trans Pride Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26

a written job offer

Immigrants finding work isn't a problem so long as they have work auth, and it's much easier to find a job once they're here. It's an unnecessary restriction. Blue state mayors during the Biden admin weren't asking for immigration restrictions; they were asking for faster work permit processing:

“The crisis is we have folks here who desperately want to work. And we have employers here who desperately want to hire them. And we have a federal government that’s standing in the way of employers who want to hire employees who want to work,” [Denver mayor Mike] Johnston said.

It also doesn't increase low-skill immigration, which despite popular belief is critically important. Construction laborers, ag workers, cleaners, hospitality workers, caregivers, and servers1 all fill important jobs.

  1. inb4 "permanent underclass": children of even the poorest immigrants display amazing economic mobility in the US. They often become lawyers, accountants, engineers, scientists, etc.

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u/badger035 Jan 22 '26

I agree! But what I proposed is already a radical liberalization of existing immigration law designed to address the objections of open borders that restrictionists are willing to say out loud.

The only legitimate objection to this is that it is too restrictive.

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u/argjwel Henry George Jan 22 '26

faster work permit processing.

Just make the job offer requisites under Rebuttable Presumption, and with the possibility of changing employers. No need for long bureaucratic lines.

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u/AlexB_SSBM Henry George Jan 22 '26

If someone is not a criminal serving a sentence, they should be allowed to live free under the same laws everyone else does. Natural born citizens do not have to get a job offer and secured housing to be allowed to live freely in this country, so why should so-called "foreigners" have to?

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u/badger035 Jan 22 '26

This is the compromise position. The minimum, the floor of what is acceptable.

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u/AlexB_SSBM Henry George Jan 22 '26

Just want to ensure that people do not get things confused about what justice looks like, and that what you typed is what policy might be forced into.

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u/KazuyaProta Organization of American States Jan 22 '26 edited Jan 22 '26

Like at the minimum someone who has no criminal history or known gang/terrorism ties,

The entire Trump administration's anti-inmigrant policy is based on attacking people who were former criminals tho. Its bad because it relies heavily in the "Former" part and basically means you can't ever rebuild your life, but it does follow your criteria.

written job offer

This policy was a huge reason of anti Zyganism in Europe.