Immigrants...
I have mixed opinions about the immigrant protesting that went on the other day...Being the son of immigrants who came here by legal means I truly believe that if you want the American "dream" follow the rules. However, many of my family members from India have had multiple student and or work visas rejected and I did not recommend to them that they go to Mexico and cross the desert. I heard a commentary on Morning Edition on NPR(3;16) this morning that pretty much said what I was thinking regarding immigration. I really think that immigration services should really have more resources, including better border security...Hey who is against creating more government jobs? Maybe they have the resources to prevent another INS SNAFU like rubber stamping the visa renewal applications of two September 11th hijackers a few months after the fact.
posted by Manish @ 23:19
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The "guest worker" solution that Bush keeps proposing and which McCain is so in favor of seems to be a way to ensure that US companies will always have plentiful and cheap labor at their disposal. You want to be a US citizen? Work for however many years for these dirt cheap wages and then you will eventually gain your freedom in the US and try to get a decent paying job. It's called indentured servitude for people "who are willing to do work that most Americans aren't willing to do." Which was actually one of the excuses for slavery in the American colonies...
I've been having the same issue with the immigrant protests. On the one hand, this is a problem which the US itself has created by giving somewhat legal status to a lot of illegal immigrants. Don't a good number of them pay taxes? Don't a lot of their kids go to public schools? Aren't they offered and don't they take advantage of a lot of social programs? On the other hand, illegal immigrants do do a lot for our economy on a daily basis, so it would be insane for the US government to give them a reason to go back to their home country, or to not come here in the first place.
That was a really great segment, manny, it sums up my feelings about it, too. Offering quasi-citizenship to illegal immigrants when so many people in the US have been trying to attain citizenship legally is not the way to go, in my opinion.
My coworker is facing having to move back to Japan in September - she has to change her visa from a student to a work visa, and the process seems to me to be kind of ridiculous. She basically has to prove that only she can do the job that she has (she, like me, does administrative work), and that it would be overly difficult to find an American who could do the job that she does.
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