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| DATE | 2005-05-12 |
| FROM | From: "Steve Milo"
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] =?utf-8?Q?Re:_[NYLXS_-_HANGOUT]_Opposing_Views:_The_Debate?=
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Those were different economic times which created a different social psychology.
Lately the city has not been the succesful absorption of immigration for a few years. It has become a city of compromise, a hold over of the 'lets keep an open mind (until our brains fall out)' psychology of the 90's.
The country has always been a melting pot of different origins, an H1B does nothing except say to immigrants 'give us your tired your humble your poor and dont worry about the hard work it takes to reach the communication divide'.
Immigration is a vital part of growth of this country, but it has to be a real immigration system, not one designed to favor any particular group or business sector.
I am forced to go to school with people here on H1B's, sometimes they are very well off from where they came from and dont want to suffer the 'indignity' of being an immigrant in this country. They indulge in quite a luxury in being able to learn here and make themselves a nuisance to anyone who actually has to struggle. All while critisizing anything that does not fit their selfish needs. As a result administrators have this false sense that somehow the system needs to be adjusted to fit the H1B's needs.
Unfortunately anyone who talks about making changes that stem the flow of immigration is considered somekind of extreme nationalist along the lines of a supremacist.
What I am talking about is that America has the upper hand in the world. *Everyone* still wants to come to America for a better life. Regardless of an H1B. The immigration system needs to be changed so that it *does not* benefit any particular sector or group of people.
Steve
> On Thu, 2005-05-12 at 08:56, Steve Milo wrote:
> > For the record, anyone who does know me I am an 'immigrant' from the former soviet union, been here since the 70's.
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> Similar to the Irish who lead the draft riots during the civil war which
> was really a race riot, burning and killing Blacks and Jews.
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> This city is a successful enterprise of immigrant absorption, and none
> of the conditions you describe are new to the New York experience. Your
> arguing to close immigration. I'm not in favor of that. I'm in favor
> of better funded local education, especially advanced education, for
> those who live here, without regard of their nation of origin.
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> Ruben
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