The only effective way to immigrate to the US is to show up and then hope you eventually find a way to upgrade to legal status (ask me how I know!). There is no meaningful legal pathway. Everyone understands this basic truth, but our politicians are too craven to discuss it.
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Replying to @Pinboard
This is definitely a stretch. Student visas, skilled worker visas, extraordinary ability visas. Yes- all favor the privileged (like myself) who either had money or received great education abroad. Yes, I once lost H1B lottery and used another path. But your point is a hyperbole.
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Replying to @BartWronsk @Pinboard
Especially conflating the diversity (!) visa and permanent residency as the only path of immigration is IMO manipulative. I'm sure you know the goals of DVs.
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Yeah, you're right that one pathway for Guatemalans to get a green card is to win the Nobel Prize
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Replying to @Pinboard
Hundreds of thousands of legal immigrants a year (over a million with adjustments of status)- I had no idea there are that many Nobel Prize categories! Being serious - it's a huge stretch to say there are NO meaningful legal options. Might be super hard for unskilled workers.
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Replying to @BartWronsk
That's kind of what I mean. The kind of person who has to cross Mexico on foot to hope to get into the US doesn't have a legal option (like a software job or PhD program) to fall back on. That's why what Harris said made me mad
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Replying to @Pinboard
FWIW it made me very disappointed as well. But when we focus it on this kind of immigration (other ones are challenging-took me 4 years despite privilege-but possible),it's a different conversation and also harder to have- I think most Americans don't want low skill immigrants.
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Most Americans are heavily reliant on low-skill illegal immigrant labor
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Replying to @Pinboard @BartWronsk
Do you have a good link to some details about how exactly the median American is "reliant" on this? Like, everyone knows that illegal immigrant labor is pervasive in many industries, but I don't have a sense of how an average American's life would differ were that not the case
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Replying to @honestshrubber @BartWronsk
American agriculture runs on migrant labor. Pretty much any restaurant kitchen in the country is staffed by immigrants, same for a lot of construction and child care. Hospitals are basically run by legal immigrant nurses.
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I wish I had a good link with hard numbers to give you, but right now I don't
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