Quote Originally Posted by Sarmatian View Post
Because for some jobs you don't need qualifications. If you think that a university professor from eastern Europe is going to come to Germany to clean toilets, you're really in for a surprise. For cleaning toilets, you'll get a guy who doesn't have any qualifications. From my short experience in the US, I got the impression that no one had any problem with immigrants as long as they took jobs Americans didn't want. But, when they started taking jobs Americans actually do want, there's an immigration problem.
Indeed. But in this scenario, we should take exactly what we need, and those who do come should have a knowledge of our language. This doesn't mean they have to speak it at home, but they have to know what I'm telling them. Say a grace period of a year to get a moderate grasp of the language, and if they can't meet it...