Immigration -- what's the big deal?

Cool. A caste system primarily for brown people who pick our oranges. Would you do a self critique on the math behind this one? Would a mom and dad with say a handicapped infant meet this requirement? One parent and one child that cannot work. That was just to pay their fare. Indentured servitude should not be the guidelines for immigration policy.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.

Dang! Speak of the devil...

"For all immigrants".I said, primarily. Was that wrong."Not oppressive"Not for you and I. No.

I don't mind. But I haven't actually expressed any opinion other than not treating people like crap once we've decided to let them in. I'm not in favor of letting people in legally, but then coming up with rules that keeps their families out. In my opinion, you got slammed. On the other hand, even unskilled labor has value and is in demand here. What would be the point of charging someone $30,000 or making the system so complicated they have to pay a lawyer such a fee, when we apparently want them here so we can pay them crap wages?

We don't have a living wage system. Instead we have a system where the labor required to do some tasks is actually valued at more than most people are willing to pay to have the work completed or more than they are willing to pay for the end product. So employers cheat and the illegal workers get cast as the villains that we can treat like crap.No, I don't need five years worth of lawns mowed and apples picked at sub market pay scales before I allow you to become a citizen.

The lottery is for countries that have low immigration rates to the US. The hard line is at 50,000 immigrants per year. Citizens from the following counties were ineligible for the 2014 lottery:

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BANGLADESH, BRAZIL, CANADA, CHINA (mainland-born), COLOMBIA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, ECUADOR, EL SALVADOR, HAITI, INDIA, JAMAICA, MEXICO, PAKISTAN, PERU, PHILIPPINES, SOUTH KOREA, UNITED KINGDOM (except Northern Ireland) and its dependent territories, and VIETNAM.

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What job is that?

Interesting... I submit that statements such as the one above don't really require much of a response. They tell us a lot more about you than they do RAZD.

Immigrants comprise about 13% of the current US population. We're probably not going to send the army after them with either tomahawks or Tomahawk missiles.

How's that working out in Arizona.

The reason for asking was that when the SC looked at Arizona's immigration laws, they approved this final portion on the basis that it would not devolve into asking 'brown people' to show their papers. Not sure what the point is myself. Here in NC, Hispanic people are often called Mexicans in less than polite discussion. On occasion I've asked how they know that the subjects of the conversation are Mexicans, and it turns out that Mexican applies to every brown Hispanic unless you know his nationality. Is that a real good assumption for North Carolina?Not sure what's wrong with speaking Spanish to an Hispanic anyway. Your customer was an idiot.Edited by NoNukes, : No reason given.