tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post2642601524611119416..comments2024-03-27T03:00:27.024-04:00Comments on Facts & other stubborn things: So much for the huddled massesEvanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12259004160963531720noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-69308435698379835172012-11-22T07:57:12.879-05:002012-11-22T07:57:12.879-05:00Do enlightened liberals recognize that technologic...Do enlightened liberals recognize that technological improvements make migration much easier today than in the past? What per year increase in population do E.L.s consider to be too high?<br /><br />Are there any among the "huddled masses" whose cultural practices are so vile or antithetical to modernity, that their presence would be an obvious negative to the U.S.?<br /><br />http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Female_genital_mutilation<br /><br />http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/9607991/Muslims-protest-outside-Google-offices-over-anti-Islam-YouTube-clip.htmlMeh.https://www.blogger.com/profile/08413573155176955182noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-80200586009493864242012-11-21T17:15:08.755-05:002012-11-21T17:15:08.755-05:00"she was a single mother that didn't spea..."she was a single mother that didn't speak much (any?) English"<br /><br />I see your family still finds English challenging. Perhaps the problem is genetic? :)<br /><br />My family moved from Europe in the 1950s and associated with other immigrants. My father used to say that every immigrant he knew had emigrated to get away from something.<br /><br />Canada's immigration policy is quite enlightened. It has a special admissions preference for strippers. ;)Absalonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09131268683451462949noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-85557599765727045792012-11-21T15:55:50.228-05:002012-11-21T15:55:50.228-05:00We want the huddled masses so much that we are cre...We want the huddled masses so much that we are creating our own. ;)<br /><br />As for the past, there was a time when we believed in democracy and opportunity for all, and the main way to achieve that was to accept immigrants. Minnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-76904489927671902792012-11-21T14:31:31.074-05:002012-11-21T14:31:31.074-05:00Something I've seen repeatedly: Americans real...Something I've seen repeatedly: Americans really hate immigrants who don't speak fluent English. Whether they were quite so hysterical about that in the 1800s as today, I don't know. mike shupphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08383379836883992742noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-41296163841503006322012-11-21T13:24:47.130-05:002012-11-21T13:24:47.130-05:00What I always find so strange is the quasi-univers...What I always find so strange is the quasi-universal outrage of liberals at Republican treatment of poor Mexican illegal immigrants and at the same time a lack of support for anything more than the most tepid of immigration reform, except when aimed at high-skills immigrants. I am always completely beffudled.PrometheeFeuhttp://prometheefeu.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1740670447258719504.post-44724602286872077842012-11-21T10:11:04.656-05:002012-11-21T10:11:04.656-05:00Interesting post, DK. We are all the sons and daug...Interesting post, DK. We are all the sons and daughters of immigrants in some sense. (My own forebears had some interesting tales that brought them out to the south of Africa.)<br />A brief comment:<br /><br />I'm not particularly well versed in the US debate, but my impression is that immigration policy in other parts of the world is pretty dichotomous. I say this as someone that has had to qualify for "highly skilled" (ahem) migrant worker permits before... <br /><br />In addition to white-collar candidates, advanced countries have prioritised trade-related skills, for instance. At least, that was the feeling I got when considering job opportunities in different countries a few years back.<br /><br />(I remember joking with some friends that it would be easier to get a visa for the UK or Australia if I had been a hairdresser, brick-layer or plumber than a university graduate. There certainly seemed to be less bureaucratic hoops to jump through.)Grant McDermotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11868318397832070394noreply@blogger.com