This morning I read a post on Breitbart that at first was quite distressing. This was even more the case when I considered the title they gave the article.
EDIT: Note my premise here was incorrect as what I was talking about applies to H-1B Visas, not H-2B.
The List: 17 Senate Republicans Join Democrats to Demand Joe Biden Import More Foreign Workers
Then I went into the comments and I encountered this one. It wasn't unique as it was the general sentiment I seemed to see in the comments.
I wrote a reply to that which I would like to share here as it is a different look at the issue. It might not surprise those of you that read my works to see me analyzing it in such a way.
While I don't like this I find myself thinking of a reason someone like Rand Paul might do this. I can do so without blaming ideology or bashing Libertarianism. Instead of attacking I try to determine a possible reason. I actually came up with one.
Our education system is rotting. It is being overrun by woke nonsense, CRT, and focus on emotion rather than reason. It is an environment where grading too harshly can be racist, math can be racist, and 2+2 can equal 5.
We have a huge number of job openings right now. There are more jobs open than there are people unemployed. People just don't want to take the jobs or they CAN'T take the jobs because they don't know how to do the jobs.
What happens when we outsource all of our chip manufacturing, our pharmaceutical drugs, etc. How does someone in the U.S. get on the job training and experience when those jobs are not in the U.S.?
Yet we are demanding those jobs be brought back to the U.S... Who is going to do them? Who has the experience? If you bring the jobs back and you don't bring people that can do those jobs until U.S. citizens once again have that training then those jobs and what we are trying to do with bringing businesses back would fail. These particular visas are how you can get experts and bring them in. In some cases it is the only place right now that we can find some types of experts. Once they are here if we have U.S. citizens training with them we could turn that around.
Don't always assume the worst... there is a big difference between these visas and illegal immigration.
The above text is quoted but it is my reply that I made a few minutes ago. I wanted to share it here.
Reading the comments it made me see how quickly those on "our side" can react to a headline and what seems as cooperation. If you like Senator Rand Paul (which I admit I do) then rather than immediately thinking he sold out I decided to try to think of a reason you might do what he did and still not be selling out.
What I wrote above explains a very valid reason as far as I am concerned...
There is a flaw in my thinking...
Everything I was basing this on actually applies to H-1B visas, not H-2B. With that in mind I don't see why it would be a good thing to vote as Senator Rand Paul did. Anyone have any ideas?