Re: immigration
driven
10/25/2011 12:22:20 AM
Yes, we've forsaken reason and common sense and become reactionary and impulsive when it comes to immigration. Time to reasses.
we could always just form another mob of people and head down there ourselves....although I'm not sure what wall street can do about immigration.
Occupy customs!
Re: immigration
Broadway
10/18/2011 8:39:30 PM
The current policy is, yes, based on fear and reaction, largely to sept. 11 and attempts to keep certain "elements" out of the country. How many of you see similarities with racialist immigration policies of yore?!
Re: immigration
cat tail
10/18/2011 12:20:21 PM
We have developed an immigration system based on fear and prejudice rather than reason and thoughtful analysis. (What else is new? This was the work of politicians/bureaucrats, no?) But it is time for change.
Someone notify Occupy Wall Street and tell them there is another issue to add to their list,
Re: immigration
tokyogai
10/18/2011 8:53:35 AM
I agree completely, but we do need to look at the criteria for legal immigration- especially in the technology areas. Our laws are old and somewhat out-moded. We need to encourage the best and the brightest to come.
Re: entreprenuers
Phoenix
10/18/2011 7:27:45 AM
Today highly skilled workers are able to migrate to many countries. Specially Asian economies encourage them. I know of many Indian students who did well going back to India to work rather than stay behind in the USA. Although the salaries are less the cost of living is also less and they are able to stay with their relatives. So it is no wonder that countries like India are prospering. Even Asian hubs like Hongkong and Singapore encourage highly skilled workers. They offer a lot of benefits for migrant workers. When such opportunties are available I don't think skilled workers will bother much to try to get visas to the US.
Dex, it's a very strang system, we educate them here, fuel their mind with knowledge, stimulate their thought process and then send them home to make use of it.
Even for the most qualified of students it can be difficult to get a company to sponsor a visa right out of college. I know a young lady through a friend who after graduating with an engineering degree was unable to get a company to sponsor her visa, so she went back for a graduate degree, tried again to get a job, but had the same issue getting a visa. She moved back to Norway, got a job pretty much right away. It's sad that we don't make it easy for talented young people to stay in the US after they are educated here...
Re: entreprenuers
Dex
10/17/2011 9:15:41 PM
Why is there such an abject absence of common sense in all of this? Why do we have visas that allow for education of foreigners but bar them from returning the favor by contributing to our economy?
Re: entreprenuers
Broadway
10/17/2011 8:37:53 PM
Ive heard numerous business academics and execs complain and want recently that the current US immigration and visa policies will come home to roost in a very bad way in a generation and the US will be even less competitive than it is now in the global market.
immigration
AskAsa
10/17/2011 4:28:34 PM
I've spoken with many people and found few who object to legal immigration into this country.
Those who enter illegally are an entirely different story.
There has to be a way to streamline the system for those who want to enter and those already here. As it is now those who want to step forward and become citizens risk a lot for just doing the right thing.
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