| ▲ | philipallstar 2 hours ago |
| This is pretty normal for most countries' visa processes. You often have to leave to renew a visa. |
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| ▲ | jimkleiber an hour ago | parent | next [-] |
| I think the biggest question the US needs to ask itself is do we want to be normal like most countries or better? |
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| ▲ | petcat an hour ago | parent [-] | | USA has been far better for over 100 years. But that had to end at some point. So now we're seeing it end. | | |
| ▲ | epistasis an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | It did not "have" to end, it's merely a political choice by one political faction being forced upon the entire nation. | |
| ▲ | platevoltage 25 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | DO you have a good reason why? | | |
| ▲ | petcat 15 minutes ago | parent [-] | | Because the industrialization of America is over, and has been for decades. USA doesn't need low-wage, immigrant workers anymore. The railroads have already been built, the fields have been plowed, and now that's all done by big automated machines. Everything that cheap workers used to do that was valuable is now automated. | | |
| ▲ | striking 6 minutes ago | parent | next [-] | | Who does the farming? Who does the cleaning? Who builds the buildings? Who are the line cooks? That should be obvious. But it should be just as obvious that there are plenty of immigrants who are also necessary because they bring new ideas, their education, their incredible work ethic, to fill in the gaps that the US clearly has. There is one thing that unites all of us (and I do mean us, as I am one of them). We all dream of a society where our hard work can become prosperity for ourselves and for everyone else, a plot of fertile soil that is worth sowing. We all come here with a dream. And I personally don't mind so much that I'm uplifting people that don't agree with my existence. I just wish that they could stay out of our way so we could all benefit. | |
| ▲ | dangus 3 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] | | List of low-wage immigrant workers: Melania Trump Boris Epshteyn Elaine Chao Elon Musk Ted Cruz Vivek Ramaswamy Bobby Jindal Nikki Haley David Sacks Sriram Krishnan Jensen Huang Satya Nadella |
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| ▲ | huxley an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | Nah, there was just more economic activity to draw people in. By every other measure it’s been more hostile than average. But you are right that it is ending, just wrong about what: it’s the high economic activity that attracted people which is disappearing thanks to the same people that hate migrants. | | |
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| ▲ | jmyeet an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| Sorry but this is just patently untrue. Are you American? Because in my experience, most Americans just don't realize how arbitrary and capricious the US immigration system is. Pick any other developed country and the process is generally fairly simple. With some you can just apply for a temporary work visa (possibly without a job) or just apply to immigrate. If you stay in many places long enough on a temporary visa you pretty much get residency and ultimately citizenship. Beyond what's possible, the time frames for doing anything with US immigration is ridiculously long. Like if you, as a US citizen marry someone overseas it can take upwards of 4 years to get a green card for your spouse and they won't be able to visit the US at all in that time. Why? Because filing a marriage petition means you've shown "immigrant intent" so you'll never get a visit visa (B1/B2) again. Also, the president may well just ban your country from getting any visa. 75 countries are currently on that list. It's also incredibly easy to make a mistake at some point in the process and that may end up getting an approvable case denied or, worse, you end up with an improvidently granted benefit that cannot be repaired, even if it was an honest mistake. |
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