We noted in January that some think that the way to beat our enemies–in that case the Chinese–is to admit more of them. That “can’t-beat-em-then-become-em” notion has now made its way into the Biden White House. Only this time it has to do with our undeclared and unprovoked war with Russia.
Buried in an April 28 funding request to the tune of $33 billion is a request by the White House to amend section 203(b)(2) of the Immigration and Nationality Act. The change would eliminate the requirement that Russians with advanced STEM degrees have an employer before applying for a green card. It would also charge Homeland Security with expediting the Russian graduates’ requests.
In the fevered imagination of Joe Biden, this will create a sort of brain drain of Russian talent to the United States, which will “undercut Russia’s innovative potential, benefitting U.S. national security.”
What’s missing–and what’s always missing from Biden’s clever ideas–is any concern for American workers. Cadging a job in high tech for American graduates in competition with an estimated 1.5 million workers from India, China, and elsewhere was already tough enough. Now Biden wants to add hundreds of thousands of Russians into the mix. (According to Forbes, in 2016 Russia had 561,000 STEM graduates.)
In the words of Mark Krikorian of the Center for Immigration Studies, the message from Washington is that “Uncle Sam wants YOU to suffer wage depression … to ensure that a larger portion of Ukraine is under the government of Kyiv but not Moscow.” Krikorian continues:
It’s not a vital U.S. interest whether some districts of eastern Ukraine are to be run from Moscow or Kyiv. [This war] is the kind of ugly European power politics that our Founding Fathers wanted to keep us out.
Joe Biden may or may not win his war with Russia, but for now he’s racking up lots of victories in his war on Americans.
For more, see Breitbart.