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Re: Living The American Dream

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Post by ebiester »

chives wrote: post #28
throawa wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, J-1. :) It's such an obscure corner of the US immigration law chaos, that barely anybody knows about it, except for those that have to live with it. The transition to H-1B from F-1 under J-1 cloud is even more obscure -- it's actually a legal loophole in the law that I think only a few know about. Basically, it's illegal to apply for H-1B visa without first satisfying the requirement, but it's OK to apply for H-…

Nah people know about it, I know at least a hand full of companies (personally, there are certainly others) that use said law to get workers into the U.S. and working for them.

It's not just the J-1, but those who come into the states under a visiting scholar program through the US government as opposed to an au pair private program, for example.

Re: Living The American Dream

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Post by philwelch »

miked wrote: post #12
autarch wrote: post #7

This seems like a good example of how screwed up immigration policies are in this country. We should be running out to other countries and actively recruiting people like her to immigrate here. She's smart, she's hard-working, and she's obviously incredibly motivated. But despite all this, the process of even getting a green card took a ridiculously long time. I really don't understand people knee jerk stance against…

>> I really don't understand people knee jerk stance against immigration (well, I do understand it, it's largely racism). I don't know any Americans who are opposed to immigration. I know lots of them who are opposed to illegal immigration. Interestingly, the people I know most ferociously opposed to the illegals are themselves immigrants, three from China, one from India, and one from France. And racism has nothing…

If you're opposed to illegal immigration, and you're also opposed to changing the immigration laws so it's easier to immigrate legally, you're opposed to immigration. Let's just be honest about this.

Re: Living The American Dream

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Post by gaius »

philwelch wrote: post #42
miked wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> I really don't understand people knee jerk stance against immigration (well, I do understand it, it's largely racism). I don't know any Americans who are opposed to immigration. I know lots of them who are opposed to illegal immigration. Interestingly, the people I know most ferociously opposed to the illegals are themselves immigrants, three from China, one from India, and one from France. And racism has nothing…

If you're opposed to illegal immigration, and you're also opposed to changing the immigration laws so it's easier to immigrate legally, you're opposed to immigration. Let's just be honest about this.

It depends what you mean by "easier". The ideal scenario would be a fast process that filters for the highly skilled/in-demand.

Re: Living The American Dream

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Post by J3L2404 »

philwelch wrote: post #42
miked wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>> I really don't understand people knee jerk stance against immigration (well, I do understand it, it's largely racism). I don't know any Americans who are opposed to immigration. I know lots of them who are opposed to illegal immigration. Interestingly, the people I know most ferociously opposed to the illegals are themselves immigrants, three from China, one from India, and one from France. And racism has nothing…

If you're opposed to illegal immigration, and you're also opposed to changing the immigration laws so it's easier to immigrate legally, you're opposed to immigration. Let's just be honest about this.

Illegal immigration is popular among confused lefties and businesses who want to hire people with no rights.

Re: Living The American Dream

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Post by bmelton »

adgar wrote: post #36
bmelton wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"She's obviously incredibly motivated." I first met Yasmine at StartupWeekend Baltimore. She'd come down from Philly to try and recruit help for her project. She'd been working on an existing startup already, and her idea was an extension of that (but new, so as to fit within the constraints of SW). Not finding a lot of help, she sat in a corner, by herself, for what appeared to be the entire weekend, plugging away.…

> In short, for all the talk about 'not enough women in tech', all I can say is that they're out there, and they're awesome. Hell, half the men I know in tech can't get as much as she does. Your comment was excellent until you took the "My anecdote refutes data!" route.

Perhaps you took it wrong, or perhaps I said it wrong.

Better stated: "Maybe there aren't enough women in tech, but they are out there, and they're awesome."

I didn't mean to bely the refute the numbers, but to posit that in spite of the numbers, women are in tech, and they're doing amazing things.

Though, since you brought it up, I'm starting to wonder if it's not a West Coast thing -- there are quite a few women in tech on my side of the continent. I honestly don't know the numbers, but the StartupWeeked I referred to before had about a third of the teams end up led by women.

Re: Living The American Dream

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Post by [deleted] »

jorgem wrote: post #11

The nice tone of comments on this thread are why I enjoy HN. Compare to comments elsewhere (not the same article, but immigration related): http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2012/04/historic-wave-...

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Re: Living The American Dream

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Post by scott_w »

miked wrote: post #12
autarch wrote: post #7

This seems like a good example of how screwed up immigration policies are in this country. We should be running out to other countries and actively recruiting people like her to immigrate here. She's smart, she's hard-working, and she's obviously incredibly motivated. But despite all this, the process of even getting a green card took a ridiculously long time. I really don't understand people knee jerk stance against…

>> I really don't understand people knee jerk stance against immigration (well, I do understand it, it's largely racism). I don't know any Americans who are opposed to immigration. I know lots of them who are opposed to illegal immigration. Interestingly, the people I know most ferociously opposed to the illegals are themselves immigrants, three from China, one from India, and one from France. And racism has nothing…

Speaking from the UK perspective, the argument is very much about "stopping fucking foreigners in to take all our jobs".

To this end, the popular opinion is in favour of making legal immigration harder, and kicking out all the illegal immigrants.

One of the more amusing headlines I've seen involved an Indian immigrant joining the British Nationalist Party, as he supported their policy of "Britain is full, stop immigration".

Re: Living The American Dream

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Post by vacri »

What's the content management system you're using for this site? It's rather obnoxiously blocking me from reading your article because I don't have javascript enabled and it's telling me I need to turn javascript on for mobile safari (there's no copy of safari in this building). I can see the content formatted fine under the warning. It seems to be related to that toolbar up the top - it's not on the homepage and I don't get the error message there.

Re: Living The American Dream

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Post by bmelton »

vacri wrote: post #49

What's the content management system you're using for this site? It's rather obnoxiously blocking me from reading your article because I don't have javascript enabled and it's telling me I need to turn javascript on for mobile safari (there's no copy of safari in this building). I can see the content formatted fine under the warning. It seems to be related to that toolbar up the top - it's not on the homepage and I d…

I was interested, so I looked -- the CMS appears to just be Wordpress.

I'm guessing (without having done much research) that it's Cufon that's pushing the JS requirement. I also saw FB Connect, so I guess it could be that, but I've never seen it do that before (but I've also never looked.)

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