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From: Frank Krygowski <frkrygow@sbcglobal.net>
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Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2025 12:03:11 -0400
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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