Why in the world is U.S. Customs and Border Protection hiring foreign nationals?

walrus01 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

I'm fairly sure you need to at least be a Permanent Resident to get hired, which makes you a US Person (it's a distinct legal definition). Permanent residents are also able to join the military and have been able to do so for a long time. There's enough of them that during the peak of the Iraq War they even held in-country citizenship ceremonies at major bases for people who had filed and completed their citizenship paperwork.

	▲	thatfrenchguy an hour ago \| parent [-]
		US person is a tax definition, folks without permanent residency that meet the substantial presence test are also US people. For immigration purposes you use resident alien / nonresident alien.

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jeffbee an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

For the same reason that foreign nationals can join the military, including the Coast Guard that has an overlapping mission: it's a nation of immigrants and for centuries until very recently most Americans readily recognized the value and necessity of recruiting foreign people into various posts.

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like_any_other an hour ago | parent [-]

> for centuries until very recently most Americans readily recognized the value and necessity of recruiting foreign people into various posts.

You forgot to mention that, for those centuries, US immigration was effectively whites-only, until the 1965 Hart-Celler act (that politicians promised wouldn't change this!): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hart-Celler_Act

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walrus01 an hour ago | parent | next [-]

And in the same era in Canada: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Immigration_Act,_1923

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_head_tax

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wat10000 22 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why is this so important to mention here?

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like_any_other 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

Correcting jeffbee's misrepresentation of history is important for the same reason they felt the need to misrepresent it in the first place.

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black6 13 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Because white westerners tend to assimilate into the culture into which they immigrate, whereas non-whites tend to retain their native culture and prejudices when they immigrate.

	▲	mathisfun123 2 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Bro since when is just naked racism and xenophobia cool enough that people feel comfortable enough to post nasty shit like this on hn even. Can't we have an auto-ban no tolerance policy for this???
	▲	g8oz 6 minutes ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		This is ahistorical nonsense.

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jeffbee an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Lol no. For almost the entire 20th century, until 1992, Filipinos could just join the Navy or Coast Guard at foreign recruiting posts, without even being American residents, then get fast-tracked for citizenship.

	▲	sheafification 42 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		I remember learning about that from Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, back in the day. It’s not even a US-specific thing. Many countries recruit foreigners to their militaries. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_militaries_that_recrui...

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rotringlvr 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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