The public sentiment towards the proposed immigration fee increases is overwhelmingly negative, with many viewing these hikes as excessive financial burdens that could deter international travel to the US and further alienate potential visitors. There is significant frustration over the implications for tourism and the perception of the US as an inviting destination, alongside deeper concerns regarding immigration policies in light of the current political climate.

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Specific_Box4483

I thought there was no such thing as inflation anymore.

Key_Dragonfruit599

At least they didn't skyrocket the price like the court did with 42B that went from $100 to $1600

Best-Plankton771

ahhahahahahahahah... but guys *i thought inflation was gone and PRICES ARE DOWN* based oN tHe lAtEsT eCoNoMic dAta 😂

It's funny that news like this truly shows you how the economy is actually doing.....

H_rusty

I would pay 10x more if they also processed it 10x faster

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Your chance is 1% for the initial selection. Then, 50% chance of your case number getting current because not all selectees have their case numbers go current, meaning not all selectees are issued visas. So that’s a total of 0.5% chance to get an interview at your local US embassy/consulate. 

Now if you happen to be lucky to fall within that 0.5% chance and somehow miraculously got scheduled for an interview, your chances of being issued a visa are 0%. 

Unless you have a second unbanned nationality, you will not be issued a Diversity Visa as a passport holder of Yemen. It’s just not gonna happen. I say that as a Syrian winner of the Diversity Visa. If the Assad regime didn’t fall in December 2024, Syria would’ve been on that ban too. Good luck.



At your interview, you will be given a 212(f) refusal sheet and your case will either be put on 221(g) or be put on final refusal. You can overcome the refusal if the ban is lifted but the ban has been sitting solid with no legal challenges to it.

CXZ115

It doesn't matter where you're applying from if Yemen is your only nationality. You're still subjected to the ban and won't get dv visa approved.

Alarming_Tea_102

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Then they should clarify or state clearly what are the requirements to get 1, 3 or 5 years visa. Not the current system where you have no idea why you got 1 year again and someone with the same of lower qualifications than you got a longer one

ramenwarrior_

Actually the dumbest shit I've ever seen. Yea sure let's raise the renwal fees for actual residents but keep the tax free laws in place. If anything should be changed it's abolishing this tax free shit everywhere for tourists. But no let's fuck over the actual tax payers instead. 

Rrblack

Make sense.
Keep giving 1 year visa to foreigners = 30,000 yen per head every year = sweet money for the government without alienating any of their voters

nicetoursmeetewe

Great.  Will they also raise salaries to Western levels?

Diligent-Run6361

They’re making foreign residents pay more and then using that to support foreign tourism? That’s actually bonkers lol.

superloverr

Stupid stupid government. They really want us out of here. I can understand a small increase, but this is huge.

IntotheWilder25

“the increased revenue would be applied to measures against overtourism (tourism pollution)”

Hmmm

kuroko2424

I guess they really want to get rid of low-paying jobs for foreigners, 40k/year for ALTs is going to be a steep increase in fees from what I understand.

franciscopresencia

Salty_Loan

Let me get this straight. You are basing the new fees on the levels of other countries that have vastly higher salaries in general than Japan, yet we have to pay those inflated prices based on foreign pricing in Japan while making a Japanese salary?

Fuck you very much.

wowbagger

Someone has to pay for all the LDP politicians’ brothel trips I guess.

Corkmars

&gt;speeding up immigration inspections and enhancing Japanese language education

I do not believe this for one second, but I really hope they do it.

Kasugano3HK

Cool, that's food right out of the mouth of my two Japanese kids. Asshole move.

redditscraperbot2

Wtf?!?!?!
They're really insane, 100k is almost half the salary of an Eikaiwa teacher or somebody working in a combini/restaurant, just saying.

peachy_yuna

In a time where conbinis would’ve stopped functioning if it wasn’t for the immigrates they’re making it harder and harder.
This country really needs immigration and it needs to support who comes here and wants to contribute.
I guess they will learn when it’s too late.

radrok

As if it isn’t already hard enough to get PR!

lushico

This is just a proposal right? I doubt they will pass this when they need more foreign labor. Its a fact Japan cannot run away from. This does nothing to combat tourism

GenkiGirlGrooves

Didnt they just raise the fees last April, from 4000yen to 6000yen? And theyre making it almost triple/quadruple the amount? I'm sad. At this point, if this fee schedule will be realized in the next fiscal year, I legitimately hope to get a raise. Otherwise this is going to hurt my meager paycheck/bank account -\_\_-

riotgrrrlwannabe

I wouldnt mind if it's progressive: 1year 10k, 3 years 20k and 5 years 30k. And with clear guidelines as to how to achieve them. As it is, it sounds more like a publicity stunt for next year's possible early elections than an actual thought through policy proposal.

UnintendedPunther

stupid when the visa system isn't comparable to western nations.

western nations treat even "temporary" visa-holders as "potentially permanent people" and make them pay accordingly - meanwhile japan treats any long-term visa holder as "definitely temporary" and often times asks them to justify their stay here with yearly renewals. the process basically starts from scratch if you change visa types too and any good will you've built up with immigration basically gets reset, so if you have a 3Y visa of one category and want to switch to a different category you'll be bounced right back to 1Y visas for an indefinite period.

if you change jobs even if your new job is covered by the visa category you're under immigration needs to know extensive details. same with renewing a student visa after changing schools or a business manager visa if you retool your company. the need to justify your stay here is constant and "well I've built my entire adult life here and have a spouse, pets, a home, and good behavior to the degree I don't even have a single traffic violation" isn't even going to help you (unless your spouse is japanese and helping sponsor your visa)

I've been stuck on 1Y visas my entire time here which is coming up on a decade btw, which creates a lot of stress since I'm working, needing to file my own taxes because of overseas assets and equity(takes 1-2 months to sort out every time), and the visa renewal itself takes another 3-4 months. So that's 6 months of my year where I've got administrative shit going on in the background that eats up a significant amount of time, money, and requires a decent amount of paper-chasing. Oh and since im on 1Y visas I need to also update my info. with every bank, payment processor, mobile provider, the MyNumber Card system, and anything else that might need KYC every year too! 

meanwhile my friends who are immigrants in the west(AUS, CA, and USA respectively) tell me that their visas are basically tied to their employment/school so as long as they have employer or school sponsorship they can stay in the country without having to interact with immigration much, and when they do things can be handled through a web portal or work/school envoy...

great job japan, make living here even more of a pain in the ass.

Ok-Print3260

Will this effect working visas? Like humanities visa? Sorry if stupid question.

Frequent-Maximum8838

Well I didn't need this huge knot in my stomach but now I totally have one.

No-Dig-4408

Looking on X at what a lot of Japanese are saying and sadly a lot think that these increases are too low. Sad to see the current sentiment.

jferrisjapan

Wait....is the PR price for application only?


Because if they also increase the extra fee you gotta pay to receive the card....lots of people that are waiting on results are now suddenly hit with a gisnt expense. 


But...guess i should apply next month before the increase rather then never applying and wishing i did later in the futere...

sketmachine13

Those this effect how much you need to pay for renewing the pr alien card too? Either way 100k is really fucked up, prepare to see more illegal resident just because they can't or don't want to pay for this shit.

Bitter_Spray_6880

Literally every day, some new crap targeting foreigners in some random ass way…. I’m so sick of this already

DoomedKiblets

So glad I’ve already got my PR

But like, rich foreigners doesn’t equal better. All you’re gonna do is have empty closed down revolving sushi 🍣 and conbini because there’s nobody willing to staff them…I’m in Nagoya where there’s tons of knowledgeable expats working at Toyota and Boeing from all over the world, a majority Brazilian driver trucking industry, tons of Turkish contractors/construction businesses, factories up the wazoo…who are going to do those jobs? 

What will they do then? There aren’t enough working age Japanese and the ones that are, don’t want those jobs, they’d have to raise the pay (but oops stagnant wages) AND no one wants to have kids

This woman (PM) ain’t gonna last the year 😂🤣

KawaKurisu

Nobodies getting that random 3 or 5 year visa now

sjbfujcfjm

PR was like 5,000 yen, wasn't it? 

So... a 1900% raise instead of just taking away tax-free purchases? 

Why does dystopia have to be so fucking dystopian?

the_nin_collector

The permanent residence fee is one time? And what is it now?

Wespie

Hmm might leave. There are opportunities for much higher salaries elsewhere in places that aren’t as unwelcoming.

rustytromboneXXx

And I'm a student 
.



Fuck me right up the diaphragm

wololowhat

So...now the government don't even want educated and skilled foreigners from developed countries? What's happening here?

Tokyoboy1984

okay, so many comments are saying "yeah, stop being so nice to the foreigners!" and it's like "uhm, you do realize that if it's so expensive, the number of illegals will INCREASE, right? The harder you make it, the less people will go through the proper procedures.

Raising the bar for LEGAL TAXPAYING workers is idiotic. And so many Japanese people are lapping it up because for some reason they think that we residents don't pay taxes (?!) Ugh. Maybe it's a good thing because it makes me like Japan even less because of their stupid old-minded government. Not that any other country is better but this is just seriously unfair.

kyarorin

Thats actually one way to reduce immigration. Make foreign residency fees 1 million yen and PR 10 million. Sanseito would be 😊 glad

TheConqueror345

Also gonna raise salaries to match western levels?

DMYU777

I hope this wakes pro-Takaichi foreign residents up. This is just the beginning.

SittichaiS

They just can’t solve the real issues. So, they want to divert the public.

ObjectiveWish325

If Japan wants to change the fees, they should match those of countries with comparable salaries, not countries who pay 2, 3 or 4 times as much as standard.

AiRaikuHamburger

It’s almost like they don’t want foreigners to renew  😒

Top-Art1730

What if im allready permanent before this implementdoes that mean i dont need to pay 100k yen?

Kind-Masterpiece8026

If they raise the salary up to western levels standard then I wouldn't mind paying that much money for extension.

finalarks88

I acknowledge these fees are shitty for everyone but they really are quite low in Japan if you look on a global level. I’d rather everywhere else brought them down to Japan’s level to be honest, rather than the opposite.

My wife’s permanent residency application for the UK was £2k or so, I think. And that was on top of having to get 2x spouse visas over 5 years… total cost of easily £8-10k I think. So in that context, 100,000 yen for what should hopefully be your last ever residency related payment is pretty cheap in comparison.

In the UK it’s almost certainly done as a deterrent to stop people from certain countries and in certain fields of work from achieving PR. I suspect that Japan might deter a few more people with this but it’s not quite at the level of “genuinely unaffordable for loads of people” in the way that some foreign fees (eg UK) are

randomjak

Watch me and my three kids singlehandedly save the entire japanese economy

Valou_h

Great, already love that I’m living month to month working full time while doing side gigs because I sometimes wanna eat fresh vegetables and chicken. Cant wait to shell out more money I don’t have!

Fantasneeze

I’m pretty sure that if ¥ 100,000 is a burden that Japan does not want to give or renew a PR. 

Think like Japan.

Expensive-Claim-6082

Is the PR renewal ¥100000 as well? Or just the initial application?

IkayakiequalsYazayai

"通常国会に提出する方向だ"

It seems like this still needs to go through the diet and it isn't certain it will be submitted. Economically intelligent members of the diet(who do exist) know for a fact it will deter the cheap labor the country needs to keep the gears rolling.

5ggggg

A lot of PR application will come in the coming months so everyone wants to avoid the new prives from next April

TamponBazooka

Phew happy I applied for PR last month lol

nopenotodaysatan

Make sense. I hope they mean to raise the salaries to the US level, too, right?

Competitive_Window75

I think the most disgusting thing about the new policy is that the companies who employ the cheap labor, WILL NOT be affected by this policy change at all. 

Take English teaching, most alt and eikaiwa will absolutely not even fund the flight ticket, let alone visa fees or travel to the immigration office or embassy, which is quite some way for some, so it comes directly out of the workers wallets in many cases, before they even got their first pay check. Even the managers get their pay salary ripped out of their hands and it goes pretty much to the top dog.

At least in the us the company will pay $100,000 dollars a year. In the UK I heard that companies must also pay a small fortune. Europe I don’t know.

But Japan…

So the companies will be able to continue their cheap exploit labor and reap the benefits because the companies will not take any responsibility at all.

After all, it was the companies that demanded the true slave wagon, which is the 6 month specific skills visa for training.

That’s why I’ve always said on Reddit, don’t take the job that doesn’t offer HSP support. If they don’t offer it, they’ve got their hand deep in the slave pit. Maybe HSP will be scrapped soon too.

I just don’t understand how the younger generation don’t see all this and just see the shiny anime, kawaii, temple, kimono fantasy land that they do.

Substantial-Host2263

Fresh-Persimmon5473

"forced deportation of illegal overstayers"...the hell, don't charge me for that. I'm not responsible for any other foreigners here, but knowing my renewal fee is going toward kicking out people who couldn't renew, and perhaps someone else's renewal fee covering the cost of kicking me out if one day i can't pay it...that doesn't sit right at all with me.

Puzzled-Art-956

RLkoltrane

EloWhisperer

Next Japan to adopt min wage to $25 to match US /s

Both_Analyst_4734

I've been living here for more than 10 years. I never paid much attention to xenophobic people but since corona their sentiments are different. 

Now it's very different. I know that all governments love to use the "blame foreigners so locals some pay attention on actual problems". But now it's different.

So many people are praising this change saying that because of the cheap yen it's affordable for foreigners without spending a second on using their brain to think - we get salaries in jpy, not everyone has a big salary. Fighting over tourism somehow resulted in fighting tax payers who also bring a lot of money to health insurance.

I hope many people will leave. Will find a better life with better salaries ava will start paying taxes on other countries. I hope that cheap labor foreigners also choose another country. I know many will stay for various reasons but I do really want people to leave and tourists to stop coming. Japan has a huge soft power so I don't think this will happen but I just want all these xenophobic people to really see what Japan is without any foreigners

PS I think that fees are low but they match salaries that aren't increasing. But I don't mind if they made it 10k per visa and 15 or 20k for pr. That's affordable.
1900 percent increase is... Wild

liasorange

I think Japan is just mad that Germany has a higher GDP then them now. 


It must be the immigration fees! That'll secure our third place slot again! 

Is_Sham

I agree to an extent.  I think the biggest reason we've let things get this bad is that the vast majority of people are not picky when it comes to what they buy and consume.

I'm in my 40s, and I know maybe one or two people who take the time to research a product before buying.  Most people I know just want the new gadgets and only shop for price.

That has led to more and more companies taking shortcuts and cutting costs.

Now, it is difficult to find a brand that is trustworthy.  Everything is cheaply made and only lasts a few years.

Take Beats by Dre, for instance.  They were some of the worst headphones you could buy.  For the same price as those plastic pieces of crap, you could buy real audiophile headphones that don't make your ears bleed.  Yet, Beats By Dre became a billion dollar business preying on gullible consumers.

Until enough individuals decide enough is enough and refuse to blindly buy something to scratch an itch, corporations will continue to cheapen out on everything but the prices.

I mean, all those stories about working conditions being so terrible where they make iPhones and did that stop people from buying smartphones?  Not at all.  

We are satisfied by saying, "corporations are so evil," and then we go and buy it anyway.  

Until we learn some goddamn self-respect, things will just continue to get worse for everyone that isn't at the top.

1ndomitablespirit

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Same in Europe and probably Australia, Canada, etc

gonuda

Two countries in particular have over one BILLION people and can supply a limitless number of immigrants. And they’ve been limited in the number of green cards yet H1B migration continues every year.

We can “solve” the problem by building housing? Sure, if you want urban sprawl and destruction of your rural areas.

Salty_Permit4437

10000% agree. Just last week microsoft and other tech companies announced layoffs while simultaneously increasing h1b hires.

every immigrant here is competing with you for jobs, housing, and college seats(the ivys are 30% foreigners now FYI).

you want affordable housing? you want to stick it to the boomers? kick out 50m immigrants.

octaw

This isn’t an opinion. It’s a fact.

Look at what California refugees did to Austin.
Look at Mexico City protests right now.

AeraSteele

Boomers basically sold out their children’s future for slightly more luxuries.

HiveMindKing

I see a lot of houses for sale that just kinda get left to rot because no one can afford them. An average mobile home in my area is upwards of $600k I don’t live in a particularly rich area either

ycey

I dont know that this is unpopular- I think many are recognizing that neoliberalism (what you are calling globalism) has been a huge failure. Particularly anyone under 45 or so is recognizing this.

I invite you to look up videos of Ross Perot and Bernie Sanders when they were considering passing NAFTA in the early 1990s. Many of these things were forseen decades ago. I wish your solutions could be implemented but at a time when giant corporations can lobby and due to the citizens united court decision stating that political donations are "speech", I just dont see it happening. What you are advocating are for workers rights - this is something the capital/donor class is entirely opposed to.

We are actively dismantling our public education systems and making college more and more expensive. And then the donor class makes a case for importing H1B workers, many of which enjoy free public school and free or very cheap university in their countries (India is the one I think of the most.)

clem_kruczynsk

&gt;When a corporation closes a factory in Ohio where they paid a worker $25/hour and opens one in a foreign country to pay someone $2/hour for the same work, they aren't being "efficient." They are profiting from that person's desperation. You know what other economic system was built on profiting from "labor arbitrage"? Slavery

They are always profiting from a person's desperation.

That is how capitalism works.

That is not how slavery works.

MinuetInUrsaMajor

BTW I got banned on the regular UO subreddit for this very post. Go figure.

SingleInSeattle87

How would this work for a company like Apple? They contract out manufacturing to Foxconn in China, India, etc 

Seems like a situation that tariffs could be designed for.

Tak-Hendrix

This is a popular opinion at this point. Might as well say no more H1bs

That_anonymous_guy18

If what I said resonates with you and you want to do something about it: join our politically active subreddit that I started: AmericanTechWorkers . No you don't have to be a tech worker to join. You just have to align with our political goals. We're trying to change the Immigration and Nationality Act to better favor Americans. Yes we are pro-american-worker and we're biased towards American workers over foreign guest workers. We don't hide that. What we are not is "anti-immigrant". Being critical of immigration policy is not the same thing as hating immigrants. Please don't conflate the two.




Vibe check: why are nobody's comments addressing the 1:1 mandate for h1bs to Americans and instead are only focusing on immigration itself?  It's weird how supporting the people already here gets you branded “anti-immigrant.” Since when did caring about domestic workers make you the villain? Feels a bit like the “pro-life” types who fight for the unborn but ghost the child after birth. Shouldn’t supporting all vulnerable workers, including the ones already here, be the progressive thing to do?

To address a few of your points:

1. Raising minimum labour costs from $2 to $7.50 implies a 3.25-fold increase in labour-related manufacturing costs. Materials and logistics may remain stable, but a 325% labour increase must be absorbed somewhere. Are you comfortable with product prices nearly tripling to accommodate more domestic factory workers? Your job may not change, but consumer costs will rise substantially.

2. Do you prefer that educated Americans pursue high-skill, higher-paid roles, or would you rather market conditions push more of them into life-long manual labour? Is it desirable to reallocate talent away from professional/managerial/innovation sectors and into US factories?

3. With current US employment levels relatively good, what problem is being solved by these interventions? Why incur two new costs — labour scarcity and inflation — when there isn't really a problem at the moment?

4. Immigrants tend to live in denser households — more people in a smaller house. In contrast, older Americans often occupy large homes with unused rooms, once they have retired and their kids have moved out. Why then take measures against immigrants, instead of elderly Americans?

5. Immigrants often lack advanced qualifications, making them a good match for low-skilled roles. These jobs pay better in the US than in their countries of origin, so it's actually a better life from their perspective. If immigration is reduced, those same roles will instead fall to Americans — reducing higher education and increasing Americans trapped in low-wage labour. What do you see that justifies Americans being pushed towards de-skilling and lower wages?

6. If your full plan is realised — production shifts back to the US, immigrant labour is restricted, and Americans fill low-paying jobs — the result will be significant price inflation. When mobile phones cost $7000, the rich are pretty unaffected. But average Americans, especially those now placed in lower-income jobs, will bear the burden disproportionately. Are you aiming for a society with very high inequality between the rich and average person?

In essence, I think your goals are pretty decent — better wages, higher domestic skill, improved access to housing. But your methods ignore all the predictable real-world downstream effects. Perhaps you're content with widespread inflation, downward mobility and rising inequality. More likely, you’ve listened to too many right-wing YouTubers who don't explain the fundamental economics — and are mask-on racists/idiots

Mr_Valmonty

I think the reason his opinion is unpopular is that it only captures a relatively small portion of the variation in the situation. In response to your proposed mechanism, one could ask whether you would oppose an American corporation building factories wherever labor is cheapest and most available within the United States? How about US territories, like Puerto Rico or Guam? Why is that situation different?

Actual economists have spent a lot of times studying this, and, again, there is only partial support for what you are suggesting. When labor is offshored, the cost of producing products goes down, and poor people in the US can actually afford things they would not otherwise be able to. Don’t believe me? Check out how much it cost to buy children’s toys and clothing 30 years ago versus now.

The real problem is stickiness: it used to be that an American family could survive off a single person doing manual labor. They could afford a home, a car, and many other conveniences. Now, that is nearly impossible, because the cost of labor(by this I mean its market value on a global scale) has gone way down. The answer to this is to try for some sort of retraining or re-structuring of the shift in the labor market. But the US seems unwilling to engage in this sort of process.

The irony is that artificial intelligence is starting to do this to white-collar jobs, and a lot of people who were used to relatively cushy lives are going to be facing the same global economic pressures as the working class has for a very long time. It’s unknown with the outcome of this will be, except it will be painful for a lot of people, unless US labor policy gets ahead of the problem. But it will bring prices down for a lot of goods and services for most of the rest of us who can manage to make a good living with whatever positions are available.

GrazziDad

I think it would be better to focus on building/reforming laws on housing instead of focusing on immigration. It only temporarily fix the problem, and be very costly. I agree with your stance on foreign guest workers, and i think they should be paid as much or even more than other workers, since it's even harder for them to leave their job and live a life in a foreign country.

Glittering-Glove-339

Your analysis is off on the price of housing. The reason why housing is so expensive in America is because of corporate interference and zoning laws. 

When the only thing that is able to be build a single-family homes and every new building has to have 50 parking spaces it creates a flattening of the real estate market meaning though the man will go up but supply will remain low.

thundercoc101

Does anyone remember shortly after the pandemic circa 2022 when salaries were exploding and you could jump from job to job to job demanding higher pay and benefits? I left a job where I was getting paid 80k for years(40 hrs + OT) and secured a similar job paying 130k salary(40 hrs) …instant 50k pay raise. Funny how it coincided with a time when borders were clamped shut and travel into the country restricted. Employers couldn’t have that though….they flooded the country the last 3 years to take back the balance of power.

Responsible_Pin2939

The "hidden" story of US outsourcing, is that in the US, parasites literally re-wrote the entire field of economics around the turn of the century to hide their parasitism and even the phenomenon of parasitism.  

Other countries have dealt with their parasite problems more effectively, which naturally makes them more attractive to hire workers and invest capital.

For example, in the US, employers hate having to pay off the "health insurance" mafia, which makes hiring Americans a lot more expensive, contributes heavily to outsourcing to other countries, and the prices go up every year.  

But because the "health insurance" mafia has more money than God, they can always bribe and bully their way into maintaining and expanding the extortionate status quo.

The capitalist/kleptocratic media frames the problem as high "labor costs" making it more expensive to hire Americans, but a lot of it is actually higher "health insurance" mafia costs, and higher housing/rent costs.

xena_lawless

I agree that paying someone overseas $2/hour is exploitation.  I don't think that's a very controversial opinion.

I agree that H1B's are abused to get less expensive workers who'll have less mobility.  I don't think that's a very controversial opinion.

I disagree on the housing.  If it was simple supply and demand, they'd build more housing to meet the supply.  Why aren't they?  Follow that thread and you'll have your answer.  It's unlikely that it's "because too many of the customers are immigrants."

fingerofchicken

That's right folks, you know who made San Francisco and New York so expensive? Illegal Guatemalans.


They're just so damn wealthy from picking crops and cleaning hotel rooms, they show up and rent all the $3000/mo apartments!


OP definitely didn't base their theory on feels! All those million dollar town houses are owned by janitors! /S


I don't know how cons take themselves seriously...

didsomebodysaymyname

Partially agree



&gt;So here’s my other simple rule: The 1-for-1 Mandate. You're a company that wants to sponsor an H1B worker? Fine. For every single H1B visa you're granted, you are legally required to pay for the full college education or trade school certification for one American citizen to be trained for that exact same high-skill job.

This is the part that I agree with but the mechanism doesn't have to be so detailed. Simply, make the payroll tax paid by the company 300% of what it is for an American. This money can be pooled and used for retraining purposes. 

&gt;Any American company operating in a foreign country must pay its workers the U.S. median wage for that equivalent job. If the minimum wage here is $7.25/hour (which is already a joke), then that's the absolute global minimum an American company can pay any worker, anywhere. No exceptions. 

Sorry, this is ridiculous. The *easiest* objection is you said 'American company'. So Toyota can employ workers for $2/hour and then ship their card to the US. Even if you put a 100% tariff ( I hate, hate the idea of tariffs) it would be cheaper than any American company. There's a lot of other reasons why no government ever proposes this idea.

&gt;We have a catastrophic housing crisis. 

I don't think it's catastrophic if you compare globally but that's beside the point. The best way to reduce housing costs is to actually build housing. It's really that simple. Austin's doing it despite massive growth and lot of it from immigrants.  We can easily build enough housing for the 1 million legal immigrants the US brings in each year and a lot, lot more extra.

scylla

Maybe it was the endless market growth funding pensions. no?

cumjared

Unchecked immigration does have the impact of driving down wages in sectors where there is an oversupply of cheap foreign labor. More immigration also drives up competition for housing and services.

HistoryBuffLakeland

It changed the world (not just US) in many ways beyond things becoming more expensive. It’s a profound change in society.

mikeber55

Sound like great ideas that will never happen but talking about them is a good start.

DrakenRising3000

I agree with you. Roger and Me with Michael Moore covered this.

SirCatsworthTheThird

The US Department of Homeland Security announced significant increases in immigration fees, impacting various classes of travelers.

US Immigration Fee Increases for 2026

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