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Immigration Reform

awakegirl told us that Italians have faced as much discrimination as black people in this country, so this is old news
 
I think it's things like seeing a Mexico vs USA soccer game and 10,000s of Hispanics cheering for Mexico while living in America, fuck that if it's so great and you love your country so much go back there.

LOL. This is like getting pissed at me for going to Cameron as a Duke grad student and rooting for Wake or going to Bucs games to root for the Panthers.
 
Yeah, you can't get an employment-based green card for any of these. Since you clearly have no idea what the current law actually is, here's a primer of the three major categories of employment-based green cards so that maybe we can have a fact-based discussion.

EB1: employee with extraordinary ability in the science, arts, education, business or athletics, professors, researchers and Ph.D. holders etc. falls under this category.
It also includes people working in US as managers and executives on international transfer basis (Company transfer L1 holder)

(ii) EB2: This includes employee with extra ability in the field of science, arts or business, and advanced degree professionals (PG. degree holder).

(iii) EB3: This includes professionals with Bachelor/ Graduate degree, and other skilled workers.

Thanks for the primer. Apparently I'm better versed in the law than you because you are incorrect. EB3 includes unskilled workers (although the visa bulletin throws them in their own category), which require less than two years of experience (read that as ZERO experience). Kwik E Mart folks come here as intracompany transferees (EB1/L1A). Frankly, even the skilled worker category (requiring two years of experience) is a joke, but people get caught up in it because there are a number of countries which have 3 years degrees and immigration doesn't recognize them as equal to a US bachelor's degree, which is 4 years. Whether somebody uses skilled worker for a 3 year degree or two years of being a cook doesn't matter. It's the same visa bulletin category as a degreed professional, which is bunk.

Reading the RAISE Act, I am heartened by the modifications made to the EB criteria. The refugee and diversity visa crap can be debated, but the EB immigrant visa modifications are pretty spot on. And the act doesn't appear to touch the nonimmigrant visas, meaning no changes to H1B or L1A or anything like that so companies can still bring workers here. It's just not so easy for them to get a green card once they're here.
 
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http://www.npr.org/2017/08/01/54090...-3-years-denied-compensation-by-appeals-court

Detained by ICE for 3 years without a lawyer despite actually being a citizen, then can't get compensated because the statute of limitations ran out while he was detained. Fantastic. BKF will have no sympathy because he previously committed a crime, though.

What happened to this guy is horrible and I don't know why he wasn't able to get out. His time for reparations should start tolling when he was released, not when he was first detained.
 
For Oakland family split by deportation, an emotional last day in U.S.

Maria Mendoza-Sanchez spent her last day in the United States before deportation tending to matters both routine and strange.

She drove her 16-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, to the first day of her sophomore year in high school. She packed. She ate meals with loved ones. And she signed paperwork granting power of attorney over her family’s affairs to the other two daughters she planned to leave behind, 23-year-old Vianney and 21-year-old Melin.

At 8 p.m. Wednesday, the family — the mom, husband and son who were leaving, and the daughters who were staying — gathered for a last photo together in their Oakland home. Then they formed a circle in the living room, along with three of Mendoza-Sanchez’s nursing colleagues at Highland Hospital, to hold hands and pray.
 
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Gots to get rid of them bad hombres. :rolleyes:

I'm sure we can do better than this, people.
 
No parent household. GJGE, conservatives.
 
Trump aides plot a big immigration deal

Donald Trump’s top aides are pushing him to protect young people brought into the country illegally as children — and then use the issue as a bargaining chip for a larger immigration deal — despite the president’s campaign vow to deport so-called Dreamers.

The White House officials want Trump to strike an ambitious deal with Congress that offers Dreamers protection in exchange for legislation that pays for a border wall and more detention facilities, curbs legal immigration and implements E-verify, an online system that allows businesses to check immigration status, according to a half-dozen people familiar with situation, most involved with the negotiations.

Miller was ordered not to brief the president on the issue in recent months, according to two of the people. A former campaign and transition aide, Miller has briefed Trump many times on Dreamers so his views are not unknown, but the president has a tendency to side with the last person who speaks to him and Kelly, who became chief of staff three weeks ago, has kept a tight watch on who gets to talk to Trump.
 
They were in the country illegally for 20 years. What prevented them from pursuing legal means to stay during that time?

Is this an honest question or snark?

Depending on how they entered the first time, there may be no legal means to pursue in order to stay.

It may mean a decade+ before reentry is allowed.
 
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They would have had to leave the country and re-enter legally as well as give up or store everything they had earned during those twenty years. If they had admitted to being here illegally since Reagan's amnesty, they would have been kicked out of the country.
 
Seems like a dick move against people who have been doing things the right way. Conservatives claim to support legal immigration.

I think there are better ways to encourage Americans to hire Americans. And much better ways to educate and train our workforce to be more competitive.
 

The US tech industry is already losing ground, so let's just fuck it some more. What an utterly asinine idea.

(disclosure, my business partner is originally from India and has now lived and worked in the USA in the tech industry for 15+ years)
 
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