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File Name | S21-Policy-NCFCA-27-NEG-BlueCard.docx |
File Size | 226.76 KB |
Date added | February 15, 2021 |
Category | Archived |
Tags | Debate, NCFCA, Policy, Season 21 |
Author | Vance Trefethen |
Blue Cards are an EU visa designed to attract highly skilled workers to immigrate. They don’t get a lot of use because they’re a lot of hassle and expensive, and not very attractive to foreign workers. AFF plan will reduce the cost and try to expand their use to improve EU’s economy by having more high-tech workers under the theory that the EU economy has “skilled labor shortages” and importing workers from outside is the solution, and that this would grow their economy. This brief challenges all of these assumptions, and also argues that even reformed Blue Cards wouldn’t significantly increase skilled workers in the EU. The shortages are exaggerated. Importing workers isn’t the solution (we should train Europeans better instead) and it won’t grow the economy.
VERY IMPORTANT: Evidence about Blue Cards (good or bad) must be checked for dates and applicability to what AFF is doing. AFF is running a plan to implement a Blue Card reform proposal that was developed in 2016, but never implemented. It’s not enough to read evidcnce that Status Quo Blue Cards don’t work – AFF will agree with that.
This NEG brief will show how Blue Cards won’t work EVEN IF the 2016 reform proposal is adopted. Disads 3-6 link to the reason why the 2016 reform was never adopted: It was too controversial and a lot of the EU member states didn’t like it. AFF can fiat that the EU adopts the reforms, but they can’t fiat that there will be no consequences nor can they fiat that everyone will like it. EU countries today like having their own individualized skilled-worker immigration policies, and the 2016 reform would make them give up individual policies in favor of the single uniform EU Blue Card policy. The backlash and anger it could generate will fracture the EU and lead to the disadvantages.
In addition to all this, there is also a process underway in Status Quo to “reform the reforms.” The EU is amending the 2016 reform proposal right now to come up with something better and fix its flaws. NEG can argue that we should wait for that process to finish. (Inherency #1 and would also prevent the disadvantages from happening by solving for the anger and backlash at being forced to accept the unpopular 2016 plan).