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> Another word for their language would be the language of security, threat assessment, and law enforcement. If deporting social entrepreneurs on the basis of
by icambron 12y ago
> Another word for their language would be the language of security, threat assessment, and law enforcement.
If deporting social entrepreneurs on the basis of their nationality and the word "hacker" is what's meant by "security" and "threat assessment", I submit that these people are incompetent. Sure, everyone is a product of their environment, but to the extent to which that environment allows them to make terrible, destructive decisions with other people's lives without meaningful accountability, they are very much operating out of fear and ignorance, and we should condemn them accordingly. I don't see how throwing around flimsy terms like "threat assessment" does anything but give a broken process an air of artificial legitimacy.
- b_emery 12y agoI dont believe we know enough facts to assess the competence of the officers - but I'm not defending their actions nor was I trying to legitimize them. The purpose of my comment was to make people aware that in general they see the world very differently than the typical entrepreneur. Not how I would like it to be, but it does seem to be a general fact.
- icambron 12y agoFair enough.
- yongjik 12y agoI'm no fan of the current system (being an immigrant worker in the US myself), but I don't understand your proposal. Are you saying that immigration officers should have the authority to selectively apply rules because someone is a "social entrepreneur" instead of, say, a farm worker? That sounds like a recipe for corruption and disaster.
- icambron 12y agoNot at all. It's not even clear what rules they were even applying here, other than their own discretion. My point was that if "security" and "threat assessment" were the operative parts of their decision, they couldn't possibly been doing it right.