@NicholasD91704 If you're worried about honey why aren't you vegan? Eggs are a much clearer case.
I was told it makes the bees stressed, so I eat agave instead, but I don't really know the answer.
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Hunter Wieman
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@johnbind2 I have good news! The actual economic evidence is positive.
Skilled immigration also increases demand in the economy. And increased demand raises wages.
All empirical economic research finds that skilled immigration has neutral/positive effects on existing Americans’ wages.
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@HunterWieman skilled, legal immigrants increase the supply of skilled labor. increased supply lowers price (=wages). it really isn't personal
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One tweet about the new terrible USCIS policy and within an hour I had hundreds of replies mocking legal immigrants, telling me to leave the country, some calling me slurs.
It's good to remember twitter is not real life, but still a surreal and somewhat horrifying experience.
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@mattyglesias @AaronBergman18 She did! Her window setup looks like it took no more than a couple hours
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Wtf
I don’t wanna be too flippant because I know it’s a substantial or even prohibitive cost for some people but you can just do things (buy and install a <$200 window AC unit)
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼@Noahpinion
Economists estimate that if Europeans used AC as much as Americans do, it would save up to 100,000 European lives EVERY YEAR. But I guess saving face on Elon Musk's social media app is more important than 100,000 lives.
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Of course a reference to an outstanding article by @CartoonsHateHer
cartoonshateher.com/p/the-gender-w…
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Getting some real "Immigration Wars are Just Class Wars" energy
Most replies were just hateful, but many were about Americans going abroad to marry up or falling victim to green card marriage scams. Completely alien to my experience of meeting non-Americans in school and at work
Hunter Wieman@HunterWieman
So if I marry someone who is here on a student visa, they have to go home and wait for a green card!?
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@kipperrii An org not a project, but they do really impressive work.
cgdev.org
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Hunter Wieman retweetledi
The tech right got so addicted to being contrarian that they made it cringe and low status to have accurate beliefs about politics.
William B. Fuckley@opinonhaver
A million people have rightly dunked on this guy, & I don’t care, I’m going to do it too, bc these people should have their catastrophic and massively consequential failures in judgement shoved in their faces forever. Sometimes a dog doesn’t learn unless you rub it’s face in it.
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@MostlyMonkey What about this one?
The message they are sending on the skilled immigration front is absolutely terrible. We should not want top talent to be scared of instability if they come here.
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1) on refugee / humanitarian / illegal immigration, the administration is universally restrictionist. Refugee claims are being denied much more quickly, TPS restrictions are important disincentives
2) on skilled immigration, the administration is far more mixed [...]
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There appears to be a lot of heat and not much light on here around the Trump administration and its actions re: immigration. Having watched several such episodes play out among the chattering classes on twitter, I have a few observations:
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@Lostflocker You can't make a law and then have your only defense of the law be "you are supposed to follow the law". The previous policy handled this in a better way and that was legal.
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Lol reply block. Coward.
The positive case is this. The current policy doesn’t reflect the actual status of the immigrant which is they are not one yet. Waiting at home is their true situation.
It is what you do for America not what America does for you.
Hunter Wieman@HunterWieman
@Lostflocker @sgodofsk It really is a tell that you aren't listing any positive case for the policy change and your defense is that sometimes bad things happen and people deal with them. Sometimes bad things happen is not a good defense of policies that create the bad things.
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@jaddy7416 That's genuinely terrible. There is no good reason to have separated the two of you for 4 years.
Similarly, there is no reason to send a legal resident who is married to a US citizen out of the country as they are transitioning from one legal status to another
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@HunterWieman Sounds good to me. My husband waited for his green card in Canada for 4 years while I waited for him here in Ohio. Cry me a fucking River
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So if I marry someone who is here on a student visa, they have to go home and wait for a green card!?
Homeland Security@DHSgov
An alien who is in the U.S. temporarily and wants a Green Card must return to their home country to apply. This policy allows our immigration system to function as the law intended instead of incentivizing loopholes. The era of abusing our nation’s immigration system is over.
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@Lostflocker @sgodofsk It really is a tell that you aren't listing any positive case for the policy change and your defense is that sometimes bad things happen and people deal with them.
Sometimes bad things happen is not a good defense of policies that create the bad things.
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@sgodofsk Look its the most common thing in history for a husband to be parted from his family for a few years for work. That’s life if you want to take that gamble. You are always a guest before greencard and should be grateful just to be able to work here.
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The intent of this policy is to create a deliberate kafka trap for legal immigrants. It forces them to leave, and in some cases they incur bars to re-entry that separate them from their spouses and children for years on end.
USCIS@USCIS
USCIS is applying long-standing law and prior court decisions to require certain aliens with temporary visas who decide they want to permanently reside in the U.S. to return to their home countries to apply for permanent visas through the @StateDept. We're returning to the original intent of the law to ensure aliens navigate our nation’s immigration system properly. Here’s what you should know: uscis.gov/newsroom/news-…
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We all have bad takes, but this one really was a worst of all time contender
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@captgouda24 Is there some sort of rapid response network they have? I posted and within ~10 minutes I had hundreds of insane replies, yet I had ~5 likes from accounts that actually follow me.
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I know, I know, claiming “bot” should not be done recklessly. But how are there so many, so fast? All sharing the same clipped, declamatory style? Without ranting or genuinely incoherent speech? People do not only hit the applause lines.
Nicholas Decker@captgouda24
I’m not entirely convinced that the usual mob of anti-immigration twitter replies one sees are actually real.
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amusingly what you would need in order to make tinder clear as market is, ahem, a price mechanism, if you catch my drift
Hunter📈🌈📊@StatisticUrban
I think one could read dating apps as just a failed attempt to impose a spot market on an aspect of human existence that is fundamentally dependent on relationship-specific capital.
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Fortunately it seems like USCIS might be walking their statement back. Hopefully they agree that American citizens' ability to marry those that they love is in the national interest.
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Camilo Montoya-Galvez@camiloreports
In a new statement, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services spokesman Zach Kahler suggests that green card applicants in the U.S. who will provide an "economic benefit" or serve the "national interest" will be allowed to complete their processing here, without having to leave.
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@carpeffingdiem Before this policy change, student visa holders eligible for green card status could apply from the US. There wasn’t nothing wrong with that! We already agreed to let them come here.
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@HunterWieman They go home and apply for the GC.
They come back on their student visa and study here until their visa is valid.
They just can’t apply for their GC in the US.
Why is this so hard to understand?
It’s apparent Americans have a reading comprehension problem.
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