Re: Tariffs and bikes

On 4/5/2025 9:27 AM, AMuzi wrote:

 Most USAians have absolutely no idea how difficult, frustrating, lengthy, uncertain and expensive a process legal immigration has become.

I have some idea. Over the years, two of my closest colleagues at work were from Iran, one was from Bangladesh. The last of those, one of the most prolific research article publishers in our university, left because of tremendous difficulties getting his wife (an Italian physician) back into the country after she left for a while to care for her ailing mother.

That said, it does seem to filter for great citizens. As evidenced.

Well, in the case of my grandparents, the system "filtered" for badly needed cheap labor in the local steel mills. I imagine it was probably similar for your grandparents. And both ethnicities had to put up with bashing and abuse, as did the Chinese, the Irish, and many other ethnic groups.
ISTM the default attitude is "We need you to work nearly for free. But you're no good."
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- Frank Krygowski