Posted on 04/01/2005 4:15:53 PM PST by Spiff
H class visas are severely limited now. The quota gets filled up literally in a day by highly educated immigrants who have strong work ethics.
Americas greatest strength is that the country has always provided a fertile place for smart, type A, go-getters. America to its benefit has inadvertantly poached the best and brightest of the world.
Closing up immigration would be a disaster. Thankfully the powers that be know that.
My point is that proper management of existing visa programs and laws would have averted any crisis necessitating "reform". I hate to see the government grow and make more laws based on failure to properly manage and enforce existing law.
Personally, I think you can cuss better in Spanish than almost any other language except maybe Russian.
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Immigrants have always been welcomed to our country, providing they do us the simple favor of following the rules we've laid down. It's common courtesy after all.
I'm sorry it seems to take so long, but there are literally hundreds of thousands of people from every corner of the world waiting patiently to be granted visa, asylum, and citizenship. The fact that the process takes some time doesn't give anyone the right to just walk across the border in violation of our laws just because they feel like our entry requirements are inconvenient.
You want to move to America? That's perfectly OK with me. God bless you and I hope the process goes smoothly for ya. But you damned well should be required stand in line with the literally thousands of other people who are doing things the lawful way. Anyone with a shred of self-respect would want to do things that way I think.
Maybe that's just me...
I sure hope not, though.
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BUMP.
Surely you aren't suggesting that there are actually AMERICANS that would really WANT to work as A&P mechanics; or as skilled construction workers, or as dock & shipyard workers, are you?
Next you'll be trying to say lazy Americans would stoop to running a temp-worker agency!
ping!
Don't trust anyone from the Jerkery Mews. It is a far left illegal immigration cheerleading operation. Mass third world immigration is their favorite topic and they can't promote it enough.
I have no idea what the reporter wants, but you can bet that when it finally sees the light of day in the Smirk it will be spun as "see what the evil gringos have forced the poor downtrodden of Mexico to do".
While there's nothing wrong with LEGAL immigration (except that the system is a mess and needs to be refirmed and the laws enforced and updated), there is absolutely something wrong with ILLEGAL immingration and those that come here illegally. I say "wrong" because it is my belief that if a person starts out by breaking our laws and get's away with it - what incentive does that person have to EVER abide by the laws of this country?
I am a first-generation American. My parents came here in the 1950's. Their families came with practically nothing, followed the rules and worked hard. They followed the immigration laws that were in place at the time. I expect nothing less from every other person who wishes to live and work in this country. No ifs, ands or buts!
I wish the best the the MMP and I thank those involved. Stay safe!
Oh please. How old are you? Immigration was near nothing for 40 years from 1924 to 1965. The U.S. went from the Roaring Twenties through the Depression through World War II to Korea and the Eisenhower '50s and into Vietnam as the undisputed leader of the planet, all on the backs of the original Americans and the population that came in the Great Wave.
The 1965 Immigration Amendments were sold to us as a "little thing" that wouldn't change much at all. Forty million legal immigrants and 20 million illegal immigrants later the country looks and acts utterly different from what it was then. When did we vote to become Mexico?
We never needed the people who came, they got to walk into Heaven's Door without ever bearing a little of the burden of bringing it into being, and the country is now balkanized in ways no one could have imagined in 1970.
Immigration? It should have ended in 1924 and stayed that way.
Problem is that I've heard the same justification for robberies, muggings, and kids snitching candy bars.
The argument fails to address concepts like "wrong", "Illegal", and "likely to get you shot/whipped/busted/etc.
Also. "currently living in Canada" sort of dilutes your verisimilitude.
Are you kidding? I barely speak enough Russian any more to get slapped or punched out.
Thank you, Spiff.
note the body guard on the far right
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No argument with that statement-- we agree that the Great Wave 100 years ago was actually a good thing.
I'd be grateful if you had a good reference on the "forty million legal immigrants and 20 million illegal immigrants" numbers. I've been really looking, and the best I could find was census bureau data at 33 foreign born and 9 million illegals. True, Census Bureau numbers are hard to read with a straight face, but links like this are even worse.
Get some sun block, Spiff ~ good report!
La Migra is slang for the Immigration & Naturalization service ie the INS hence Viva La Migra is hooray for the INS
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