Posted on 10/03/2025 10:42:54 AM PDT by marcusmaximus
On the opposite end of the LEGAL IMMIGRANT spectrum.
A couple years back a recent immigrant from Jordan bought the local gas station in my small town in NH. He had been in the USA for about seven years at that point with a Green card. He had been working three jobs. He was in his fifties.
This was the second gas station he bought. He sells fuel. Does detailing and rents the garages out to a local auto mechanic. He splits his proceeds 50/50. Stores some cars in the winter.
He has another gas station east of here in NH. Does the same thing there. He has since bought a third station in MA.
The one in my town is open 7 days a week. From 6am to 8pm.
Either the dad or one of his two sons is always there. Pumping gas because it does have an automatic fire suppression system. They had tried to turn it into a convienence store, but the neighbors all said NO. IT is surrounded by residential houses.
A telling piece of information would be *why* the H1B was denied multiple times. A common reason for denial is that the job does not meet the criteria of a “specialty occupation”, which, with a title like “Technical Program Manager” would make sense. I would imagine that Visa would know how to structure a job and jump through this hurdle.
Sadly, this person was exploited as cheap labor. As a result, they’ll now have to find employment elsewhere when their (work-) visa expires. Maybe now large employers will reserve H1Bs for folks who truly need them (and are prepared to pay for) rather than underpaying foreign labor to do a job that an American would do, if presented with a fair wage.
The echo chamber surrounding this one is worth taking notice of. I doubt they start off this way, but you add a few thousand of the same, and a university system that codifies their community, fellow students, and sense of entitlement, and cancer comes out the other end with a masters degree at 35 years of age.
Tood a loo!
Maybe they should have an Indian Dream, instead.
It’s wrong for America to strip mine human capital from other nations.
Exactly, the goal is Global Prosperity, and the way is for each nation to look out for their own people, that is the essence of Economic Nationalism. It’s the only sustainable policy.
Leave. Need a ride to the airport?
If I’m following the linked article correctly, she was denied before President Trump took office and ostensibly afterwards too. Maybe this highly educated soul will endeavor to find out why she’s being denied. Or minimally learn that you cannot control all outcomes and life isn’t always fair.
Kindly suggest to her that ‘studying abroad’ can include other parts of the globe. And that her home country could probably use her big brain there…. but my guess is that she wants citizenship here.
Yay! Good! Leave!
Nothing to do with the subject
“I.” “I.” “I.”
Apparently, we’re supposed to be touched by the narcissist’s plight. 😢😢😢
Operation Clog the Toilet is working as planned!
(rubbing hands vigorously, chortling with glee)
“”I wanted to keep working and studying in the US, but I tried to get a H-1B visa three times and was unsuccessful.””
Dear Shreya,
We regret to inform you that we couldn’t care less that you are unable to acquire a good and high-paying job in America at this time, since there are millions of legal American citizens that would love to have that same position and opportunity.
But take heart, and know that there are other nations that will welcome you with open arms (try China or North Korea) and will happily utilize your expertise. Just...not this nation.
Regards,
Unemployed Americans
- still looking for work due to too many foreigners taking their jobs
Gee. My ancestors “moved to” North Carolina like 275 years ago.
No universities on the Yadkin back then. Just some hostiles.
Scrapped and scraped to build houses in the hollers and grow subsistence crops. Still no universities.
Some folks on the Yadkin went with a guy named Boone up through the Gap to a different part of the new country. More hostiles, they got cleared out.
That was “the American Dream”. Keep pressing on into the wilderness, settle it and civilize it. Maybe even build a university, after the schools and churches got built.
That was a long time.
Nobody from her side of the planet was there.
Just us.
But now that the heavy lifting is done, she demands to stay?
She wasn’t in our dream.
I’m worried Trump’s $100,000 fee means my American dream is over.
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HellOoo.... You’re not, you know, an American. Get out.
Your presence in this country has cost, you know, a real American, his American dream.
Go home, turn YOUR country into the American dream.
“I’m worried Trump’s $100,000 fee means my American dream is over.”
It should have never got started.
“AMAZING OPPORTUNITY to grow in her own culture”
Exactly. Make India Great or Mediocre Again.
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