OFF TOPIC - The IOC sucks.

Alpha Kodiak · #1 July 22nd, 2001, 10:41 AM

Dragonlord:

For what it's worth (and based on both your description and my friend's), I agree that the current immigration laws concerning "non-immigrant workers" such as yourself need to be fixed. The trouble is that most people born here have no contact with the immigration system and don't know how ridiculous the system is, or worse, don't care. If I hadn't been exposed to it through the ordeal of my friend, I wouldn't have known anything about it.

While I have defended the U.S. in a number of areas, you have a legitimate complaint. One of the things I get frustrated about by our government (trust me, there are others) is that we fight against illegal immigration, but then we make legal immigration difficult. It would seem to me to be more efficient to make it easier to immigrate legally, and use the savings in reduced efforts at rounding up illegals to generate more jobs for those who enter the country legally.

Atrocities · #2 July 22nd, 2001, 10:48 AM

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the Chinese are not stupid.

Indeed they are not, however, when the TV cameras are gone................. How many will pay once the spot light has been turned off?

CW · #3 July 22nd, 2001, 02:05 PM

Atrocities, check out my two Posts near the beginning of this thread.

CaptSpoogy · #4 July 22nd, 2001, 06:38 PM

Dragonlord - try Canada. There always looking for skilled IT workers and it's a lot easier to immigrate here...

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Quikngruvn · #5 July 22nd, 2001, 08:14 PM

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Originally posted by capt_spoogy:
Dragonlord - try Canada. There always looking for skilled IT workers and it's a lot easier to immigrate here...

I'd consider that myself it weren't so fricking cold!

Quikngruvn, who has never experienced more than six inches of snow at one time

Puke · #6 July 23rd, 2001, 01:03 AM

the thing that i dislike the most about the US (not that i dislike the US, but i figured i would chip in for the other side of the argument.. only fair.) is that people dont like the police. the average citizen is trained to distrust and be afraid of the police. its a huge cultural problem, and part of the problem is with the civilians and part is with the police.

I think that the whole anti-authority mindset is what leads to all the youth-violence we have in the States. Other countries that have more open attitudes where someone can ask a friendly question to an officer on a street corner dont seem to have the rampant problems with inner city gangs and school violence that we have.

Dragonlord · #7 July 23rd, 2001, 02:41 AM

Spoogy, I actually spoke to a recruiter in Toronto Last week, they had an interesting open position. But when they heard I was not a US citizen (let alone Canadian) they said it would be too difficult paperwork-wise. They also said that getting a work visa in Canada is equally hard as in the US...unless you're American. Odd, they almost made it sound as if they were a northern province of the US rather than a country in its own right.