Oddbean

The state steals from you to bailout banks, fund their war machine all around the world and hire 87,000 agents to spy on your venmo account. Then psyops you into thinking it's immigrants fault, don't fall for it anon

Immigration processes (like most government processes) are terrible and slow by design. If service is poor and wait times are high, they can get a bigger budget and hire more bureaucrats. An endless cycle. My humble answer, fire all the bureaucrats and privatize the process. Pay private companies a set amount for each case they handle, and have clawbacks if they admit anyone they should not have or who ends up committing a crime.

You're right. US Immigration process is one of the worst regulatory capture cases in the world. They have no stated goals, and no defined metrics to measure how good they are doing their job; and if course, no responsibility for doing it poorly. One hand is playing a literal lottery with human lives while the other is essentially doing the same, just in a super slow process with millions of costly duplicit steps, years long waiting times, all designed just to max the immigration attorney business. The worst part of the design in my experience is the unpredictability. You enter the process, not knowing how long it would take and what would be the outcome (high variability in both for most cases). It's a tremendous waste of human capital. It would be so easy just to setup 2 OKR metrics to be tracked for every immigrant who gets in, and outsource it to a couple of competing companies (even DVMs) - A) minimize delinquencies - B) maximize wealth creation (jobs and taxes)

I didn’t. The State itself is behind the mass migration, as implied by the incentives I laid out. Show me where I denied the problems in your first paragraph or said they’re entirely the fault of immigrants. There can be multiple problems at once, all caused by the State.