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The US’s strength lies in the scores of bright immigrants who come to the universities here to study and later join the work force. Keep treating them like shit

The US’s strength lies in the scores of bright immigrants who come to the universities here to study and later join the work force. Keep treating them like shit and competition will soon step into that role.

Bud 7y ago
Oh, that ship has sailed. It has already happened. We don't realize it yet because we haven't lost any wars because of it yet, but it has happened.
megaremote 7y ago
> The US’s strength lies in the scores of bright immigrants who come to the universities here to study and later join the work force. No it doesn't, what a ridiculous statement. Its strength lies in many factors, immigration of bright students is a tiny part of that.
acangiano 7y ago
> Keep treating them like shit and competition will soon step into that role. Canada says hi.
- jonathankoren 7y ago
  Last week I was scanning through the Bay Area FM stations and came across an ad on the Bollywood station. It was a immigration consultant pointing out that that due restrictions to the H-4 visa, it was advisable to immigrate to Canada, and this company could help. If I wasn’t an American and looking to immigrate, I’d go to Canada. It’s just as good and nicer.
  - cylinder 7y ago
    This is literally a growth industry in Canada right now. Toronto is building a big tech sector just taking up people who can't get into the US. The government and establishment are all on board with population growth as a source of economic strength right now.
    - jonathankoren 7y ago
      I know someone that left the Bay Area and moved to Toronto for this very reason. Now he’s become an advocate for others to move to Canada, and even founded a company to help others immigrate to Canada. https://movnorth.com/ https://movnorth.com/ (Miss you Vikram!)
vel0city 7y ago
This, exactly. Here we had a chance to impress on a foreigner that US society is great and filled with good values and all we did was kick him to the curb because of social media connections. We don't make the world think we're their friends by treating impressionable foreigners poorly.
- hans_castorp 7y ago
  > Here we had a chance to impress on a foreigner that US society is great and filled with good values That ship has sailed long ago.
coupdetaco 7y ago
Oh nos not the race to the bottom
roenxi 7y ago
Not necessarily just the universities. For fun and to make a point I decided to scroll down the list of US's richest and go through their wiki pages until I found a link to an immigrant. > Bezos was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the son of Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen and Ted Jorgensen.[7] At the time of his birth, his mother was a 17-year-old high school student, and his father was a bike shop owner.[8] After Jacklyn divorced Ted, she married Cuban immigrant Miguel "Mike" Bezos in April 1968. That didn't take me very long.
- benj111 7y ago
  Technically he's not the immigrant, and neither are his birth parents, so I vote you continue your quest.

Bud 7y ago

Oh, that ship has sailed. It has already happened. We don't realize it yet because we haven't lost any wars because of it yet, but it has happened.

megaremote 7y ago

> The US’s strength lies in the scores of bright immigrants who come to the universities here to study and later join the work force. No it doesn't, what a ridiculous statement. Its strength lies in many factors, immigration of bright students is a tiny part of that.

acangiano 7y ago

> Keep treating them like shit and competition will soon step into that role. Canada says hi.

jonathankoren 7y ago
Last week I was scanning through the Bay Area FM stations and came across an ad on the Bollywood station. It was a immigration consultant pointing out that that due restrictions to the H-4 visa, it was advisable to immigrate to Canada, and this company could help. If I wasn’t an American and looking to immigrate, I’d go to Canada. It’s just as good and nicer.
- cylinder 7y ago
  This is literally a growth industry in Canada right now. Toronto is building a big tech sector just taking up people who can't get into the US. The government and establishment are all on board with population growth as a source of economic strength right now.
  - jonathankoren 7y ago
    I know someone that left the Bay Area and moved to Toronto for this very reason. Now he’s become an advocate for others to move to Canada, and even founded a company to help others immigrate to Canada. https://movnorth.com/ https://movnorth.com/ (Miss you Vikram!)

vel0city 7y ago

This, exactly. Here we had a chance to impress on a foreigner that US society is great and filled with good values and all we did was kick him to the curb because of social media connections. We don't make the world think we're their friends by treating impressionable foreigners poorly.

hans_castorp 7y ago
> Here we had a chance to impress on a foreigner that US society is great and filled with good values That ship has sailed long ago.

coupdetaco 7y ago

Oh nos not the race to the bottom

roenxi 7y ago

Not necessarily just the universities. For fun and to make a point I decided to scroll down the list of US's richest and go through their wiki pages until I found a link to an immigrant. > Bezos was born Jeffrey Preston Jorgensen on January 12, 1964, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, the son of Jacklyn Gise Jorgensen and Ted Jorgensen.[7] At the time of his birth, his mother was a 17-year-old high school student, and his father was a bike shop owner.[8] After Jacklyn divorced Ted, she married Cuban immigrant Miguel "Mike" Bezos in April 1968. That didn't take me very long.

benj111 7y ago
Technically he's not the immigrant, and neither are his birth parents, so I vote you continue your quest.