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Yes,all the immigrants I know are hard-working people, more so on average than people born and raised here. "Are you willing to go through the current immigrat
by qdog 10y ago
Yes,all the immigrants I know are hard-working people, more so on average than people born and raised here. "Are you willing to go through the current immigration process?" Seems to do a pretty good job of selecting productive individuals already.
As an aside, this is probably my last post on HN, reading the xenophobic and likely astro-turfed replies to this and other threads has really reduced the value of HN comments to me. Seems to be as an increasing problem in all online venues :(
- timthelion 10y agoI too am shocked how HN is taking a hard turn to the authoritarian side. "lega" "legal" "legal" "is it legal" "but they're illegal" geeze. I live in a country where it used to be illegal to know how to tune your radio to western frequencies and emigrating could get your familly sent to a workcamp. Now the west is talking about legality as if it were the holy grail. WTF?
- angry-hacker 10y agoIf you think HN is racist or authoritarian, the real life must be difficult to you. There is nothing wrong with having rules who can live in your country. I'm not an American and live in poor country, but I totally support common sense what nowadays is considered xenophobic.
- lenkite 10y agoAs someone who is not American - I am Indian, I find it crazy that legal immigrants have to go through a decade plus long wait to get a green card but a Mexican can pay a human trafficker to cross the border and then get protected status. I fully support Americans who wish stronger borders. I don't see anything xenophobic about their views. A nation should be able to choose who it accepts as residents from other nations.