Posted on 06/12/2026 6:30:59 PM PDT by Red Badger
This is my new favorite thing.
There are a ton of posts from foreigners who are in the U.S. for the World Cup and just discovered that America is awesome.
My only regret is that I can't show them ALL to you.
15 VIDEOS OF WORLD CUP FANS TRYING OUT AMERICAN FOODS FOR THE FIRST TIME...................
There's also the Jersey delis:
VIDEOS AT LINK!....................
And the Mexican joints:
And the grocery stores:
Of course, it isn't all about food.
Foreigners are experiencing FREEDOM™ for the first time in their lives and the rush is going to their heads! 🦅
(Especially this first kid.)
Of course, there are downsides to all this glorious liberty...
(Excerpt) Read more at notthebee.com ...
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Apparently we just added 4,400 new millionaires today, so I'm thinking we're good for a week or so, at least.
I arrived in Warsaw, Poland two days ago. The food here is wonderful. But I don’t believe anything can beat a proper Texas brisket.
Except for getting broiled in a 105 degree heat index.
USCIS’s H-1B Employer Data Hub :
https://www.uscis.gov/tools/reports-and-studies/h-1b-employer-data-hub
PERM, LCA (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3) data and statistics - U.S. Department of Labor :
https://www.dol.gov/agencies/eta/foreign-labor/performance
H-1B (and H-1B1, E-3) LCA Labor Condition Application filings, which are far higher than the number of H-1Bs actually granted. The LCA is the first step for a company to take in applying for an H-1B :
Rep. Elijah Crane’s legislation to pause H-1Bs for 3 years, and end OPT visas, is needed :
https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/8443/all-info
Thousands of Middlemen Are Gaming the H-1B Program (Bloomberg) - shortcut :
Industrialized Fraud in the H-1B program :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KumpIWZ6ZpI
Somebody on Free Republic posted that they were offered $13/hour for some type of web development (perhaps creating web pages). This was in New York City.
American citizen employees can’t be threatened with deportation to their home country within 2 months if they don’t perform according to their boss’s ambitions, unlike H-1Bs.
During the Biden administration, H-1B visa holders were buying houses with 97-100% financing :
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4379360/posts
9 out of every 10 new jobs in the US since 2020 have gone to foreigners :
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4376285/posts
Here’s a graphic on how OPTs have flattened wages :
More on STEM-OPT visas :
Besides OPT and STEM OPT extensions, there is also CPT, Curricular Practical Training, which foreign students on F-1 and M-1 visas may participate in after one year of study! :
https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-2-part-f-chapter-5
https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents/combination-documents
https://ifspp.substack.com/p/graduating-into-second-place
“Sold Out
How High-Tech Billionaires & Bipartisan Beltway Crapweasels Are Screwing America’s Best & Brightest Workers”
By Michelle Malkin, John Miano
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Sold_Out/dihiDAAAQBAJ
https://www.amazon.com/Sold-Out-Billionaires-Bipartisan-Crapweasels-ebook/dp/B00VBW3SYQ/
I watch those types of youtube videos. A lot of times the people will comment how they’ve been lied to by the media about what America is like.
I’ve been in NYC twice now this summer, which is a modern era record for me. Did a lot of walking. I found New Yorkers to be uniformly friendly and helpful. Of course, there was an element of reading the room involved: don’t interrupt someone who is obviously in a hurry or engrossed in a conversation, etc. A little self-deprecating humor goes a long way. While I mostly walked, I did end up using the subway about 10 p.m. to get back to Penn Station. Both times I was careful to ask for directions from my location to the nearest subway stop, which line to take, and about safety at that hour. Everyone was responsive and friendly, and the subway was fine.
Of course, I wasn’t in any sketchy parts of town, and I’ve lived in DC long enough to know to maintain situational awareness on the street.
The only problem I encountered was getting back to Penn Station the night Trump was at MSG for some basketball game. So many streets were closed down that getting to the only entrance involved a long walk-a-maze detour to get to the only entrance, and I was getting into catch the late train territory. That’s a crazy way to manage Penn Station, which is kinda, sorta important. Obviously the NBA game should have been moved to some more suitable location. Like Hoboken.
The thread the needle thing wasn’t hard because there were police directing pedestrian traffic at every corner. It was just a long walkabout, and I didn’t have a lot of time to spare.
The High Line walking park hadn’t been created when I lived in NYC almost 50 years ago. I ended up walking the whole thing as I arrived through Penn Station and was headed to lower Manhattan. Fantastic park, well worth checking out.
And the one lad’s expression when he takes that first bite of tender, falling-off-the-bone pork ribs . . .. !
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I used to love that stuff. Now if I eat it, I have to take a long nap afterward, and the rest of the day I’m too lethargic to do anything.
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And they have kippers for breakfast
BTW - having watched so many European videos, I hope these people have a good time then go home. They are uniformly socialists.
We have the best variety of foods here in the USA. And we don’t eat at Mcdo three times a day like some Europeans think.
One of my aunts is a LEGAL immigrant, now a citizen. She spent a lot of money and waited her turn to come many decades ago. She is angry that these people are literally jumping in line and not paying anything to get in to America. And getting free food and housing on top of that!...............
They can love America, but they should all go back home and stay there. America is full and needs to get rid of 50 million immigrants.
I’m against all immigration.
I agree, but the question is where to draw the line. I propose about 1830, as both sides of my family were here by then.
Most of Y’all, however can start packing your bags.
I wonder where Trump will go. His mom was an immigrant and both his paternal grandparents were German. Another newcomer overcrowding our country.
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