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Neighbors welcoming immigrants isn't remotely the same thing as immigration policy. Our (US) immigration policy and process is an expensive, painful, broken me
by alistairSH 6y ago
Neighbors welcoming immigrants isn't remotely the same thing as immigration policy.
Our (US) immigration policy and process is an expensive, painful, broken mess. That fellow residents welcome you after all the legal expense, time-wasted, and plain old stress, if besides the point.
- jariel 6y agoYes, the US has a byzantine migration bureaucracy, as do other nations, but that's a separate issue from notions of 'welcoming' or 'integration' or 'opportunities' etc.. It's also weird how the US has all the best talent in the world and some of the more ill-equipped bureaucracies.
- alistairSH 6y agoSure, but the parent post asserted "The US and the UK have the most open policies" which isn't true. And the article was about policy, not neighborhood acceptance. The US has some of the best talent because of the economy, which is arguably a result of WWII (Germany, UK, Japan, etc all had to rebuild, we did not). And, in my possibly jaded opinion, the bureaucracy is a feature not a bug. Politicians don't really want to fix anything because that would remove one of the drums they beat come election time.