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Suppose the next time you're a painter bringing in a painting of yours into the country. Next thing you know they are accusing you of smuggling. Is the solution to hire people with background in arts?
Answering your question. You know, I worked as CITES expert on customs back 15 or 16 years. No sane customs officer can distinguish between crocodile skins. This is why there was (and still is) institution of advisors.
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The problem is it's very easy to make entering the country hard for legal immigrants and tourists - you just make tons of strict rules, tell border control to enforce them vigorously and voila! But it's much harder to crack down on illegal immigration, since by definition they won't follow laws and rules. You'll need to spend a lot of money and effort on finding them and getting them out, on enforcing eligibility che…
Yes, there's strong political opposition to immigration enforcement, but there's also strong opposition to illegal work enforcement. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/california-farmers-bac... If anyone were serious about this problem, E-verify would be in force everywhere and the working population that supports 12M undocumented immigrants would be out of work tomorrow, and out of the country the next day.
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They're attempting to solve the problem that they, as individuals, can solve. I have no realistic chance of convincing enough of my fellow Americans that the privacy of foreign nationals who wish to enter this country is more important than maintaining the false sense of security we get by violating it to put any pressure on lawmakers or enforcers of policy and get things changed. What you can do, today, is employ te…
I thought tech people liked hard problems ;) Please, by all means use whatever technical measures you want at the border. My criticism was of hn commenters armchair quarterbacking, as thought the ability to bypass these checks (at great effort) makes it ok that you have no expectation of privacy.
I have mixed feelings on the matter. At an international border, non-citizens shouldn't have an expectation of privacy.
At the same time, this man's private sexual preferences shouldn't be used to evaluate his fitness to enter the country.
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It's the pre-screen areas are inside Canadian airports, on Canadian lands. Anything the us border cops can do there, they do so with the permission of the Canadian government.
Which really, should be whatever they need to do. The twist being at any point you should say "No, I'm staying in Canada" and they should say okay bye.
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If you read the link you will see that the CBSA policy is not to attempt to arrest people for this, due to the uncertainty. https://bccla.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/CBSA-FOI-Docs.p...
And if you read the link, that is from an almost two year old bulletin and begins with "until further instruction." I don't know what the exact FOI requests were, so all you can be certain of is "their policy under the Harper government was..."
There is no reason to believe that CBSA under Trudeau would have dumber policies than under Harper, I fact the opposite.
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Buge has written this several times in the last two weeks without supporting evidence.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/alain-philippon-phone-password-case-p...
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Why run a company in California?
Not sure about the OPs case, but usually it is when you care about investors' money more than the company/product.
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I think you and parent are talking about separate things. They say, "housing assistance," and you say, "access to housing." Housing assistance is a government service. Access to housing would mean controlling the private housing market, I guess. Those are very different ideas in terms of feasibility, morality, economics, etc.
Well, yes and no. There are several factors. First of all, government can both help (by providing money/actual housing) and impede (e.g. by requiring ID checks when renting out). Help may include giving money (or pseudo-money, such as vouchers) to participate in the private market. Second, many illegal immigrant are poor, or comparatively poor (e.g. housing in SF Bay Area is crazily expensive as you know, but in othe…
In my experience, illegal immigrants were frightened of encounters with police/authorities and were much less likely to be homeless or live in government-subsidized housing than others of a similar stratum. That said, my experience is mostly with migrant workers (agricultural and service industry); so these were people with jobs, albeit low-paying jobs. Those who couldn't work would live with their traveling companions until they moved to next location or eventually return home if they weren't making money.
I'm not arguing there's no correlation. It just feels like a stretch to imply the government is providing low-income housing so the streets aren't flooded with homeless illegal immigrants. But maybe that's true in CA; I really don't know. My experience and knowledge is all rooted in the southeast (AL, MS, VA).
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Yes, there's strong political opposition to immigration enforcement, but there's also strong opposition to illegal work enforcement. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/09/us/california-farmers-bac... If anyone were serious about this problem, E-verify would be in force everywhere and the working population that supports 12M undocumented immigrants would be out of work tomorrow, and out of the country the next day.
The article makes very little sense. Trump's orders were about a) limiting immigrants and refugees from Syria, Iraq, Sudan, etc. and b) removal of criminal illegal aliens (of which for vast majority of them ICE has no idea where they are so it's as useful as ordering the sun to raise of the west). But field workers are predominantly Mexican or Latin American, and vast majority of them do not commit any crimes except…
Basically all the fears in this article were realized with the DHS announcements yesterday: https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-immigrant-crackdown-worri...
Everyone proposing clever technical solutions. Burner phones and encrypted cloud data etc... you are solving the wrong problem. Instead of engineering a way for the few people who care deeply to avoid this at great effort, engineer a way for this to not be legal. Write your congressperson, donate time and money to political parties, make privacy at the border for ALL (not just citizens) a priority in every election.
Thinking you can change a rigged, corrupt system? You've already lost. This is 100% a case where the state needs to be thwarted through technical means.