>AI will replace you ahahahahahaha!!!!! hahaahaha!
Seems like this policy is a long time coming? Why do we need workers?
U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
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#852Earlier quoted context omitted.
The leaving part is not the issue, as you try to immigrate into a country you're subject to the rules that country sets. You're always free to not immigrate into that country (this is not about asylum). The issue here is that, if you just left the country to do everything the country asked you, you are now in limbo. For how long? No one can tell. Does this mean you lose your job? Maybe. And when you decide it's no lo…
when you treat immigrants like they were not people with lifes, you are just one step away from treating poor people as they were not people and then too treat all common people as they were not people. also it has been quite convenient explanation for adopting systems such as Flock and allowing all kinds of para-police actions which seems very similar to what happened in germany circla 1930-1934
> when you treat immigrants like they were not people with lifes
Thus the rebranding of humans as “illegals”.
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#853Earlier quoted context omitted.
I work in a global company. As an interviewer, I don't even know if the person I interview is a US citizen. I don't even know if they live in the US or another country, and I'm probably not allowed to ask. I just rate their performance. And everybody is paid the same. I think the situation is quite simple. Companies want the best candidates they can get, and the larger the recruitment pool, the better. If tomorrow yo…
> As an interviewer, I don't even know if the person I interview is a US citizen I don't either, but my guess is almost none are
That seems like a bias you should work on.
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#854I am so jealous of the American people. You might not all understand it, but this is what putting your own people first looks like.
Putting you own people... You seem to be missing a word there
Your sentence could go one of two ways, but I suspect I already know what it is
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#855I see a lot of comments in this thread in support this stance, as if that is something good for Americans, and say it is not a political statement. One thing that changed my viewpoint was this book. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case, and Angus Deaton. In it, they make a point that, almost all US economists agree that immigration, both legal and Illegal Immigration, is not the cause for Ameri…
Do walk us through the spot checking path. Class warfare is hard to see, seeing your job go to a lower-paid foreign worker is not
Re: U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
#856I see a lot of comments in this thread in support this stance, as if that is something good for Americans, and say it is not a political statement. One thing that changed my viewpoint was this book. Deaths of Despair and the Future of Capitalism by Anne Case, and Angus Deaton. In it, they make a point that, almost all US economists agree that immigration, both legal and Illegal Immigration, is not the cause for Ameri…
> almost all US economists
Bold claim without artifacts: no artifacts to your claim.
> Hacker news crowd can easily verify this by spot-checking.
Nobody got time for this. You provide the verification for us or else your claim just doesn't mean jack.
You try to sound smart by saying words like `false narratives` or `divisive exploits` but they don't mean anything here. You just trying to sound smart.
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#857Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's not really money. Frankly, no 20 year old thinks that much about money. They do things that they like, whether that is going to school, working at a job, or starting up. And you don't know about the broken immigration system from the outside. The reason this problem is unique to India is due to country caps/DEI which prevents people from India on H-1B from getting a green card.
I disagree that no 20 year old thinks that much about money. If you're lucky enough to have had rich enough parents to not have to worry about money too much, yes, you'll probably optimize for doing things you enjoy, but people who spend a lot of their younger years with money issues will sometimes obsess about it and really focus their lives around 'getting rich'. I've noticed have similar phenomena with people who…
* If you're lucky enough to have had rich enough parents to not have to worry about money too much, yes, you'll probably optimize for doing things you enjoy, but people who spend a lot of their younger years with money issues will sometimes obsess about it and really focus their lives around 'getting rich'.*
I think you’re in the right ballpark, and I have seen it play out exactly that. However, I think it is even more common for rich kids to obsess about getting richer.
In my experience, as long as their needs are being met, most people get used to whatever lifestyle they are raised in, and stick with it. if they grew up in a family that chases wealth, and equates income with self worth, then they tend to keep doing that.
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#858Probably a good thing for many migrants. I mean who would want to migrate to a country that's so hostile towards anyone that looks and prays different.
> a country that's so hostile towards anyone that looks and prays different.
You are making a bold claim that US is being racist here. US is THE melting pot, and no other country in the world has accepted all races living together like this.
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#859Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you have any examples? I expected Schengen to have a common set of requirements regarding visas.
An Irish work holiday visa can only be requested from outside the country and has a maximum validity. https://enterprise.gov.ie/en/what-we-do/workplace-and-skills...
That's not a renewal. It's fairly standard for EU countries to require being outside the country to apply for a visa or residence permit when it is your first one, or (in some cases) when changing the type of visa or permit. But renewals never need you to leave.
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#860My company has a H-1B guy that travelled home to India a few months ago and since then can't come back because the next date he can get with the US embassy is next year. Seems he may get stuck even longer... I am to some degree on board with keeping a closer eye on immigration, but the way the current administration does it feels intentionally cruel. The guy at my company has a house, wife, and kids in the US; his vi…
"feels intentionally cruel" They are intentionally cruel. Its the point. They aren't even trying to hide it. The posts on official Whitehouse X account are borderline gleeful on topics of deportation and immigration. I'm in dis-belief at times.
The intentional cruelty must be visible because they're doing it to gain support from those who want to see immigrants mistreated.
They're not trying to change the rate of immigration, they're just looking to score political points.