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TAP Legal Immigration


POLI the AI, asks, "Where can we agree?" TAP allows States to Terminate (close the tap), Accelerate (tap world markets), or Pause (tap the brakes) on Local Legal Immigration. TAP would allow counties to funnel immigration requests up to the State. State politics will decide what numbers to approve. There is controversy around immigrant crime rates but legal immigration crime rates appear actually lower than US citizens'. States will work in two-year requests in off-election years to de-politicize immigration. Immigrants must stay in their host State or reciprocating State until reaching full residency or citizenship. ONE PARROT thinks national immigration policy has stopped serving our needs. THE OTHER PARROT thinks immigrants change our communities too much for the worse. PolicyKeys™ IS A REAL-LIFE ROLE-PLAYING GAME. Predict whether each Role (click) will have a majority say (click) YES or NO. Finish all eight Roles, and (click) Submit for the Editors' & POLI's Answers.


Should States Control Their Own Immigration?

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Let’s get horizontal, Politics 4.0 makes strange bedfellows

Turn your phone and your perspective horizontally
Widen your views, literally and figuratively
Politics is a landscape not a self-portrait
You’ll need both your left and right thumbs
Widen your views — left and right
Let’s knock down some figurative silos
Let’s sit on the 50 yard line, not just one end zone

POLI the AI, asks, "Where can we agree?" TAP allows States to Terminate (close the tap), Accelerate (tap world markets), or Pause (tap the brakes) on Local Legal Immigration. TAP would allow counties to funnel immigration requests up to the State. State politics will decide what numbers to approve. There is controversy around immigrant crime rates but legal immigration crime rates appear actually lower than US citizens'. States will work in two-year requests in off-election years to de-politicize immigration. Immigrants must stay in their host State or reciprocating State until reaching full residency or citizenship. ONE PARROT thinks national immigration policy has stopped serving our needs. THE OTHER PARROT thinks immigrants change our communities too much for the worse. PolicyKeys™ IS A REAL-LIFE ROLE-PLAYING GAME. Predict whether each Role (click) will have a majority say (click) YES or NO. Finish all eight Roles, and (click) Submit for the Editors' & POLI's Answers.

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YES key

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    11M open jobs Americans don't want
  • 3
    Social Security fund needs workers
  • 5
    Immigrants expand our world-view
  • 7
    Negative birth rates hurt economies
  • 9
    Immigrants have a great work ethic
  • 11
    Lack of skilled workers hurts business
  • 13
    More Immigrants means more customers
  • 15
    US workers can move up the ladder
  • 17
    Nudges US companies from offshoring
  • 19
    Increased revenue from income taxes
  • 21
    US workers tired of mandatory overtime
  • 23
    States get to choose
  • 25
    Immigrants have a lower turnover rate
  • 27
    Bilingual workforce helps global business
  • 29
    Legal immigration will supplant illegals
  • 31
    Labor shortages causes supply shortages

Majority of the Role?

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  • Urban PT Workers
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  • Caregivers
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  • National Lenders
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key NO

  • 2
    50% of Americans are under a living wage
  • 4
    Labor markets are highly unpredictable
  • 6
    An Immigrant might take my promotion
  • 8
    Immigrants may skip to another State
  • 10
    Immigrants start competing businesses
  • 12
    Difficult language issues in the workplace
  • 14
    States may clash with counties & industry
  • 16
    Some States may take in too many
  • 18
    Some communities may feel pushed out
  • 20
    Increases demand for housing and rents
  • 22
    Might lower wage growth
  • 24
    May effect swing vote districts
  • 26
    May strain local government services
  • 28
    Many immigrants don't share our values
  • 30
    Controversy breeds profits
  • 32
    Immigration needs to be political
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