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Unfortunately it changed from "best and brightest" to "whoever could make it over the border" and "whoever would do the same job for less money".
by gadders 9mo ago
Unfortunately it changed from "best and brightest" to "whoever could make it over the border" and "whoever would do the same job for less money".
- yoyohello13 9mo agoPretty sure "whoever could make it over the border" are not getting admitted to Harvard.
- cmtm4 9mo agoWhen was it ever substantially not "whoever could make it over the border"? That only stopped being (mostly—see the Chinese Exclusion Act) our actual policy in what, the 1950s? And after that, much to the relief of the agriculture industry that sharply opposed the change, we de facto barely enforced the new policy.
- gadders 9mo agoThank God big ag managed to keep the profits flowing