Commerce's Carlos Gutierrez offers incompetent immigration advice

Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez recently pimped "comprehensive" immigration "reform" in Louisville and offered some incompetent immigration advice:

Countries such as Germany, Japan and China are facing future population declines, and are using immigration as a way to fill jobs and maintain their economies, he said. The U.S. "can stand out from the past" by doing a better job with immigration than its global competitors, Gutierrez said.

I'm going to assume they meant "stand out from the rest" instead of "past", otherwise it makes even less sense. Of course, China's view of labor is not exactly consistent with the American ideal, although some forces' desire for cheap labor come close. Japan's guest worker program is also not the American ideal, and Germany - obvious to everyone except Gutierrez - has a huge problem both with a failed "guest" worker program and also with Muslim immigrants transforming their society in unhealthy ways.

"We have the advantage that we have dealt with immigration for over 230 years and we should be able to deal with this wave of immigration in a very successful and effective manner as we have done in the past," Gutierrez said.

It's obvious to many that today's immigration is not the same as yesterday's. If he's really concerned about policy - and not just a hack - he'd address those issues.

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There have been centuries of experience with immigration, but only decades of mass illegal immigration, culminating in 9-11.
The burden of proof is actually on those who who propose additional massive increments of hostile immigration.
We've been getting away with it, is not a reasonable argument, and especially not when since 9-11 in particular we haven't been getting away with such disloyalistic irresponsibility.
Why can't officials be for America first, are they traitors or something?

Countries such as Germany, Japan and China are facing future population declines, and are using immigration as a way to fill jobs and maintain their economies, he said.
How many immigrants are admitted to Japan and China? My guess is very few;I'd like to see some documentation of this.
Also I'm sure that any immigrants/guest workers admitted to Japan find it very difficult to become citizens unless they are ethnic Japanese. And, of course, neither Japan nor China has birthright citizenship.

Also the US assimilated the last "Great Wave" of immigrants (1880's-1924)in part because 40 years of restrictive immigration laws, the Great Depression, and WWII gave it time to do so. I'll skip another depression and WWIII but bring on 40 (at least) more years of restrictive immigration laws!

The logic is also quite fallacious; didn't slavery work for more than 230 years?
Just because some policy worked in the highly divergent circumstances of the past does show that it will work now, or be good.
We've never had immigrant groups like the latino immigrants coming in at half the pay per person of the majority, that is, until the tolerance and encouragement of illegal immigration started.