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Eh, what? Not only is this acknowledged as reasonable in many countries, it's policy.
by tsotha 12y ago
Eh, what? Not only is this acknowledged as reasonable in many countries, it's policy.
- parennoob 12y agoThe anti-immigration sentiment often seen in the US (sometimes even on HN), and in a lot of European countries seems to say otherwise.
- tsotha 12y agoThere isn't much anti-immigration sentiment in the US. What we have in the US is anti illegal immigration sentiment. In terms of European countries there was an article about a week ago regarding Americans going to Germany for free college. The Germans were hoping they'd stay. I think people worry about the quality of immigrants. We want more young Sergei Brins and fewer middle aged guys with a sixth grade education.
- joncrocks 12y agoWhile that may be technically true, AFAIK it's hard for someone to immigrate to the US. If I wanted to move to the US tomorrow, I believe it would involve me having to get a job before I got there. One could argue that saying that you're against illegal immigration and making legal immigration very difficult is the same as saying that you don't really want immigration.
- tsotha 12y agoWe have over a million legal immigrants a year, so even if you can't get in easily somehow a whole lot of other people are managing.