Immigrant entrepreneur arrested to meet quotas
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Immigrant entrepreneur arrested to meet quotas
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#3US immigration sucks. What bugs me most is that the US is founded on immigrants, so it's basically the descendents of one group of immigrants telling those 'late to the party' that they can't enter, or in this case that they have to leave.
To do this to someone that has been there for a lifetime and then some is ridiculous.
Too many lives have already been wrecked to satisfy little minds and to get stamps on pieces of paper.
Immigrants like these are the ones a country should hope to receive, not to turn away at some arbitrary future date for bureaucratic reasons only.
Disgusting.
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#4US Immigration sucks because it's become a political football. Instead of something that can be sanely managed like it has in the past.
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#5Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see anything in the linked post about "meeting quotas".
Can we please avoid making headlines unnecessarily hysterical?
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#6Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see anything in the linked post about "meeting quotas". Can we please avoid making headlines unnecessarily hysterical?
I think that referred to this bit:
"By coincidence, Frontline this week is broadcasting a feature, ‘Lost in Detention’, outlining the increasingly aggressive measures to deport immigrants. The key clip begins at the 17-minute mark outlining the arbitrary goal of 400,000 deportations, including “Non-criminal removals”. "
From http://mapbrief.com/2011/10/19/political-hypocrisy-economic-...
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#7As a kid I always wanted to go to the USA, maybe even live there. So many things to see, the business opportunities and the propagated freedom were very attractive.
During the last decade though, the USA have done a fantastic job of eradicating every bit of what was left of this dream. Nowerdays all you hear from them is how Hollywood is destroying little guys' lifes for downloading a bunch of songs, exporting those policies with force to other countries, insane financial schemes and starting several wars.
Right now I am planning a trip to Japan. A country, which was hit by a nuclear meltdown crisis, floods, earthquakes and more. I'd still choose it over going to the USA any day. Maybe that's something to think about.
The USA are going down fast and it doesn't look like there are changes in sight in regards to their handling of immigrants, the wars or the rampand self-made economic problems.
And that is a shame.
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#8I earn for a living freelancing for US companies. It has always baffled me that I am allowed to do it legally only if I stay outside of the USA.
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#9Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see anything in the linked post about "meeting quotas". Can we please avoid making headlines unnecessarily hysterical?
I think that referred to this bit: "By coincidence, Frontline this week is broadcasting a feature, ‘Lost in Detention’, outlining the increasingly aggressive measures to deport immigrants. The key clip begins at the 17-minute mark outlining the arbitrary goal of 400,000 deportations, including “Non-criminal removals”. " From http://mapbrief.com/2011/10/19/political-hypocrisy-economic-...
What does a Non-criminal removal mean? Like who would be in that category? Just people who's visa expired?
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#10Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see anything in the linked post about "meeting quotas". Can we please avoid making headlines unnecessarily hysterical?
Case summary here: http://www.ca3.uscourts.gov/opinarch/104369np.pdf
It seems clear to me that at this point he is an economic migrant, rather than a refugee; and as that was the basis of his initial plea to stay (i.e. he was seeking asylum from persecution), the generally brutal machinery of bureaucracy is ejecting him from the country. (Apparently, credible death threats don't constitute sufficient grounds for asylum. But I don't think he is credibly at risk, even of that.)
It's very harsh on him and his wife, uprooting them from their community, etc., but on the other hand he ought to have little difficulty finding work and living anywhere he chooses in the EU.
Frankly, I don't think the US deserves him.