My Opinion: Taiwan's Immigrant Policy Questioned by BBC

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-32508443?SThisFB

In this report from the BBC, there are complaints that Taiwan's immigration policy has not caught up with the number of recent migrant immigrants who want to stay here to live. In America, if you are a citizen and marry a foreigner, your spouse could naturalize in three years. In Taiwan the route to citizenship is not tied to the length of your marriage to a Taiwan national. 

Still, I am a foreign spouse here and have all the rights that my wife has, except for voting in elections, which I wouldn't want to do, anyway, because of the corruption and lack of real democracy.

Foreign visitors should consider the plight of the common working Taiwanese. A citizen's wages are stuck at the level they were sixteen years ago while prices on commodities and housing have gone up. 

Elite migrants from the Chinese civil war, and their offspring, still command privileges beyond native born Taiwanese. They appropriated land and destroyed the Taiwanese quality of life under Japanese rule.

Is this a veiled BBC call for exploitation of Taiwan by new foreigners? 

Too often, foreigners complaining about unfair immigration policy in Taiwan are getting higher wages than citizens of Taiwan! 

 If Taiwan's economy was better, wages higher, more families 

would have children. Migrant immigration is not the solution to

 job shortages; it's an excuse. 


Taiwan already had two elitist migrations last century.

The government should help the common people, first. 



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