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Originally Posted by Carno
I agree with that.
I don't agree that our immigration laws should be rescinded though.
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I don't think they should be "rescinded", but there's a big difference between rescinding and reworking. In today's world there's every reason to be careful about who we let through the border and grant citizenship to, but arbitrary quotas aren't the way to do that. If more Mexicans or Bulgarians or Chinese or whoever want to apply for citizenship or work visas and can demonstrate that they have a skill we need or a job that needs to be filled, so be it. There needs to be vigalence on who we let in, what job they are going to fill and what they do after they get here.
By the way, in the case of my Bulgarian coach, there are no Americans with his skill set or credentials. Out of 300,000,000 or so of us, not one even gets close to being able to teach his skill set. People like that need to be allowed in easily.
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Originally Posted by Cynthetiq
What your ideas are demonstrating here are the the people are able to take care of themselves and more than likely will not be a burden on the state.
My mother-in-law just got back from a 2 year visa in London, she had a hard time renewing since she's a struggling artist and does require more state assitance than a normally gainfully employed or employable person.
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That's sort of my point, I guess. If you're going to be here, you need to be able to demonstrate that you can take care of yourself or that someone will take care of you (in the case of the elderly or disabled). I don't think that anyone would argue that we need more working poor in this country, but that's another discussion.