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Re: The new land of opportunity for immigrants is Germany

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The various sides of the immigration debate are talking past each other. This article describes a German program that takes high skill people like the architect profiled in the article, while those opposed to immigration are mainly concerned about the large numbers of low-skill people who are not interested in assimilating. The anti-immigrant folks in Britain and France aren't worried about Mr. Pinol. They're worried…

That's not true, I did a Ph.D in France, I was an assistant professor, and was stopped and fully body searched by the police at the train station for the only reason I am dark skinned. Not only did it end there, even after they saw my papers and called the university, I was let go, but the pack leader had to yell at me that France is not a place for me. Affraid of Low skilled ppl ? No! Affraid of difference, definetl…

I don't see link between your comment and the main topic. Plus this is typical french bashing: we french people financially contributed to your PHD, and you're basically saying that we are racist like some policemen who are just fed up with the problematic mass low-skilled immigration consequences.

Re: The new land of opportunity for immigrants is Germany

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's not true, I did a Ph.D in France, I was an assistant professor, and was stopped and fully body searched by the police at the train station for the only reason I am dark skinned. Not only did it end there, even after they saw my papers and called the university, I was let go, but the pack leader had to yell at me that France is not a place for me. Affraid of Low skilled ppl ? No! Affraid of difference, definetl…

I don't see link between your comment and the main topic. Plus this is typical french bashing: we french people financially contributed to your PHD, and you're basically saying that we are racist like some policemen who are just fed up with the problematic mass low-skilled immigration consequences.

Maybe you should go see an optometrician. France did indeed contribute to my Ph.D: mistreatement and exploitation. FYI, like most of the "immigrants", I have done research for free (yes, free with no scholarship), paid more taxes than you are probably doing now and contributed to your retirement (not mentioning the contributed research). So please, don't spill what you've just heard from your far right politicians who have nothing to do than bashing anything that relates to africans: Like bashing the French education minister because her parents are north-african immigrants.
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