Space Exploration and Immigration

Immigration Daily | Feb. 4, 2003 | Unknown

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No, this is not just about Kalpana Chawla, the immigrant from India who perished as a member of Space Shuttle Columbia's crew when that craft was lost during re-entry on Saturday morning. And this is not just about NASA and immigrants (A search on Google today showed over 200 documents on the NASA website connected to immigration, NASA's 212(e) waiver policy is at http://nodis3.gsfc.nasa.gov/library/displayDir.cfm?Internal_ID=N_PG_1371_0001_&page_name=main

The fact is that immigrants from India, China, and many other countries are found in large numbers throughout the scientific and technical community in the US. These immigrants help ensure that American science and industry continue to lead the world.

Immigration is not a zero-sum game - while enriching their lives, immigrant scientists and technicians enrich our country economically. And if someone praises the immigrant contribution to American science and technology, immigration attorneys deserve to take a bow for facilitating that contribution at its very start.

Ilan Ramon, an Israeli, also perished when the Columbia was lost. In Israel today, there are many business professionals who happen to be born in Syria, Iran, Iraq or other countries on our "immigration hit list" who cannot get visas quickly and are subject to the harrassment of registration while here. Today's featured article "A Firsthand Account Of A Special Registration Experience" describes what that procedure is like.

Immigration is an important part of the American experience today. Anti-immigrationists may bemoan this, and pro-immigrationists may hail this, but all must acknowledge this fact.

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First we're told that the millions of Mexicans flooding the land are only doing jobs American don't want to do. Now we find that American engineers are not smart enough to advance our Space and Technology projects without superior foreign help. I wonder if all the laid-off American workers share this belief? To add insult to injury, the scum-sucking Immigration attorneys pat themselves on the back for helping to steal these American jobs!

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And we wonder where the good jobs went...

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The fact is that immigrants from India, China, and many other countries are found in large numbers throughout the scientific and technical community in the US. These immigrants help ensure that American science and industry continue to lead the world.

Our education system has become a national disgrace. Now we need brains from other countries to keep our programs and research afloat. When will we take back our schools?

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Gee, we'd have been better off without those Germans...

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To add insult to injury, the scum-sucking Immigration attorneys pat themselves on the back for helping to steal these American jobs!

They are quite proud of themselves at their ability to get rich at our expense. But then they're getting a little help from Congress.