President Joe Biden’s refusal to adopt commonsense fixes to the historic immigration crisis at the border, other than opening an amnesty pathway for nearly 400,000 Venezuelans, Haitians, Nicaraguans, and Cubans, is helping to draw new attention to a “legalize-and-tax system” to solve illegal…
agents now encounter at checkpoints as they look for a free pass in. Without any new Biden move on the border this year, Kopits is predicting that a record 2.7 million people will try to get in this year.
But, he said, it has to be done smartly, with the price of the visa not so low that anybody can buy one and not so high that it encourages illegal immigrants to sneak in without paying. “The right to work in the U.S. on demand is extraordinarily valuable,” he said, “and visas have to be priced accordingly.”business in California as an example of how not to move forward with his plan.
“The price differential is far above the number Californians are willing to pay. No surprise, customers are returning to black market marijuana, and the legal industry is imploding. California botched marijuana legalization because it ignored the economic realities of producers and consumers,” he said.Kopits said he did some deep analysis to come up with the price of a work visa at $9,000, finding it to be the sweet spot that immigrants are willing to pay to work in the United States.
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