Subject: Re: Adams Pulls The Welcome Mat
English proficiency. Cultural assimilation. Education levels. All should be official factors. Things like crime or entitlement - should not be tolerated and frankly, score should be kept to evaluate future applications. Yes, there are groups occupying prison in large numbers, and groups of immigrants and offspring occupying high learning institutions.
Canada, Aus, New Z, so many others employ such standards.

Not exactly. Canada, New Zealand, and Australia don't require English to get a work permit, although you have to show in advance that you have work. In other circumstances for Canada you need to be able to speak either English or French, and AU and NZ have exemptions for other categories, notably students, but also others.

I am not an open borders advocate, but neither do I find your rules (or attitude) particularly helpful. Two quick examples: my wife goes to a nail salon owned by a Vietnamese woman. She came here after the fall of Vietnam speaking no English and without resources (she was temporarily sponsored by a church). She now owns the salon and employs 8-10 people.

We hire a landscaping guy who came from Central America; he is married to an English speaking Mexican woman who handles communication. He started about 10 years ago with a beat-up pickup truck; he now has three *new* trucks, brightly emblazoned with his name (Jesus. Pronounced Hay-zeus) and has a cast of workers who do exceptionally good work. Is he 'illegal'? I don't know, I know he's a hard workers who has achieved success and the American dream. He is learning English, albeit slowly, but he is trying.

I apologize that both examples are cliche, but they are true. It occurs to me that people who are willing to throw everything away and try to come here are probably more motivated than the born-in-America slacker Gen-X-Y-and-Z types who sit reading their phone while supposedly 'on the clock' at some retail outlet.

I don't really know what the answer is, but I am quite sure that you don't have it, and was anyone in power listening to your 'solutions' we would be worse, not better off.