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You ask some good questions, but the basic problem is that you're thinking of a visa as being similar to a transferable property interest. It isn't, and the administrative, temporal, and fiscal costs of adjusting immigration status are pretty high for an individual.
Oh I know that's not the case today, but I'm asking OP to justify why law shouldn't be created/modified to handle this sort of situation.
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Yeah, the Midwest's culture was irreparably damaged by the large numbers of Germans and Scandinavians who moved there all at once.
I get the knee-jerk reaction to anything like this is to shout "THAT'S RACIST" and get on with life, but this is definitely a thing that's happening. Whether it's damaging or not is a separate question. My partner is, for the sake of argument and to remove emotion, let's say Romulan. She came here from Romulus over 10 years ago to attend school. Her parents have started coming here in the past year or two on and off.…
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> And if we do, let's deport the murderer to the middle of the Pacific ocean. Why should other countries care for or suffer your country's criminals? Of course, unless you meant some uninhabited island or dropping him in the water... Other than that, keep him.
I read this as meaning he should be set adrift on a lifeboat or somesuch. I do feel a proxy anger towards the murderer, but I'm not a fan of making legally annoying people just disappear because that quickly becomes the go-to solution in tough times. Another reason that I don't want to just forget about that guy is because he's not a bizarre exception, but partly the product of xenophobic nationalism churned out by s…