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Re: Immigrant entrepreneur arrested to meet quotas

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Post by rdtsc » Fri, Oct 21, 2011, 11:55 AM UTC

galadriel wrote: post #176

rrhm wrote: post #142

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Every country has their requirements, and to a greater extent they enforce them. However, some countries make it downright impossible for a foreigner to become a resident or a citizen, while others make it exceedingly easy. For instance, if you wanted to become a permanent resident or a citizen to the Dominican Republic, all you would have to do is get there (via sea or air), go through the motions, submit the paperw…

Note that the landing with $10 requires that one has to be from developed world. And there is also a pretty similar procedure to get green card in USA, the EB5 route.

There is a bit of difference between $10 and $1000000 but , aside from that, it is the same

Re: Immigrant entrepreneur arrested to meet quotas

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Post by gnaritas » Fri, Oct 21, 2011, 6:11 PM UTC

yeahsure wrote: post #179

gnaritas wrote: post #171

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> The border patrol officer started telling me I was hiding something because of my body language (apparently he saw too much "Lie to me") and started questioning why I had friends in the US, how had I met them and so on Cops are dicks, plain and simple, they are not your friends; Hollywood definitely glosses over this. The reality is more like Training Day, those are real cops, mostly straight but dirty when it bene…

I don't think that all cops are dicks, but they have the power to behave like it if they want to. One of my dream jobs has always been to be a murder investigator though (I'm a big fan of "The Wire"):-) And yeah, even though I'm from South America, I don't look too latino. I once crossed the border with two mexican friends. They definitely treated them worse than me.

> I don't think that all cops are dicks

I think the vast majority are, and I used to be one so I've known more than a few.

Re: Immigrant entrepreneur arrested to meet quotas

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Post by TomGullen » Fri, Oct 21, 2011, 6:52 PM UTC

hugh3 wrote: post #161

TomGullen wrote: post #69

USA's immigration laws are pretty hilarious when you remember the majority of the population are immigrants themselves who pushed the natives out the way all those years ago. It's a country founded on immigration.

The "natives" are immigrants too, just from slightly earlier. We're all Africans.

Well yeah there is that! I generally find political discussion on immigration wholly distasteful, and often parading itself as xenophobic/racist propaganda.

The whole immigration issue boils down to "we got here first! nah nah ne nah nah!"

Re: Immigrant entrepreneur arrested to meet quotas

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Post by gujk » Wed, Oct 26, 2011, 7:07 AM UTC

rdtsc wrote: post #89

huhtenberg wrote: post #85

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Ok, got it. In that case, and with a possible exception of EU zone, there are no countries that allow doing what you described. For example, being a citizen of Canada I can travel almost everywhere w/o visas, but I cannot just fly to Italy or Mongolia or Japan and get settled to live and work. Nor would I be able to get a work-enabling visa easily. In other words the USA is not an exception, there is nothing unique a…

The difference, is that US (and Canada I guess), unlike many other countries was founded on immigration and prides itself with that fact ("melting pot, yada yada.."). However it ended up as a country with one of the most complicated and difficult immigration systems in the world.

That's a natural consequence of the evolution from undeveloped territory to settled and densely populated.