@mnolangray @AwokenSentience You think this is just the bay area. You have no idea what this issue is about.
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@AwokenSentience If you think regular Americans care more about Bay Area squabbles among tech workers than their neighbor's wife or their friend at work getting arbitrarily booted out of the country, you're in for a rude awakening in November.
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It's even crueler than described. Say you marry your college sweetheart on a student visa, or girlfriend on a work visa. Maybe pregnant? Doesn't matter. You're forced to live apart or abroad for two years. If she is from 75 countries on Trump's arbitrary ban list, indefinitely.
Nick Davidov@Nick_Davidov
The biggest bullshit move by DHS in its history. So everyone on a O1 or H1B visa would have to stop working legally in the US, go back to their country and wait for years of backlog? This includes top scientists in our universities, founders of billion dollar companies (at least 3 just in our portfolio would be affected by the way). And if we look at individual countries it becomes even more bs. Indians would have to wait decades. Russians don’t have anywhere to go (there is no US embassy in Russia, hello?). This is the worst imaginable way to disrupt important work for the country and pretend you’re fighting some loophole.
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@JoseRui27556516 @mnolangray Nonsense. Even democrats are getting laid off for work visas.
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@mnolangray They know they’re gonna lose in November, and possibly in 2028. They know that in this long term gamble democrats have the edge (it’s easier to let in people legally and illegally than it is to force them to leave) they’re simply getting desperate and going all in, it won’t work.
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@mnolangray Nonsense. It was always about all forms of immigration.
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Americans voted for MAGA immigration policy assuming it meant deporting baddies or building a wall. Instead we're getting roving bands of goons killing Americans and lawfully families getting ripped apart. As in so many other areas, they've lost the plot.
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Ryan Grim@ryangrim
This is a radical change to immigration policy, forcing anyone applying for a green card to leave the country indefinitely, forget whether they have American kids, spouse, etc. The talking point that we do want legal immigration, we just want people to get in line and follow the rules, is BS. This is an attempt to blow up the line, blow up the rules, and make it insanely difficult to immigrate legally.
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@mnolangray Don't care. They can go live in the other country together.
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i don’t understand why immigration of any sort is universally unpopular. almost every country on earth heavily restricts it
this is a recent thing too! before world war 1, you could just take a steamship from Brazil to Paris for $20 and decide you lived in France now
what changed? are people bad now? is that the reason more people are even more bad?
back then income wasn’t taxed in most jurisdictions either. now we tax our own people’s income & we don’t allow others to immigrate and earn income.
i ask again, are people bad? is working bad? where did this zero sum attitude come from?
what if we could also start deporting our own citizens, to have as few people as possible. would that be even better? is 0 the best amount of people? what is the point of all this?
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If I had to go home to convert my O-1 genius visa into a greencard, it would completely derail my career. Not even worth applying at that point.
The process for a greencard is 1 to 2 years. The O-1 lasts 2 to 3 years. Just say you don’t want high skill immigration
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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@goescarlos @Enders06972 None of that is even remotely true. You're a hack.
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@Enders06972 American workers benefit from innovation and lower prices induced by a productive workforce. The best empirical evidence we have shows immigration increases real wages.
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Is it the first time in history that a nation is voluntarily giving up everything that makes it a superpower? Dumb and evil policy from a dumb and evil administration.
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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During his second term, Trump will have cut 2 of the US most powerful innovation and wealth creation engines:
1. skilled legal immigration
2. (non-defense) research budgets
We won't see the effect of this immediately, but in 10 years it will be obvious... and it will take at least another decade to rebuild 😢
A sad day for the US.
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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I consider myself a moderate Republican and... this is not a good idea... at all. @realDonaldTrump @JDVance @SecRubio please change it.
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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@impossible_eng @mnolangray No, and in addition, I completely disagree. The needs of safety do not change at the municipal border.
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It's crazy how many US states, including California, allow local jurisdictions to substantially amend or adopt their own building code. How can you have an efficient, national construction industry when you've got tens of thousands of sets of distinct regulatory frameworks?
Kim-Mai Cutler@kimmaicutler
Why has modular construction failed in the United States? "Sweden has used prefabrication to deliver mid- and high-rise housing at competitive cost and high quality for decades, and the explanation has nothing to do with engineering. Sweden has a standardized national building code and, more consequentially, a Public Housing authority that has committed to enough repeat volume to give factories a reason to invest, improve, and stay in business." "In our experience, the building code is as much to blame as land use policy. The U.S. has delegated code development to more than 20,000 local jurisdictions, each with its own byzantine requirements, making it nearly impossible to develop a standard product that can be sold at scale across state lines."
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@impossible_eng @Crime_Penguin All cars are expensive now. If it runs once its 2K or more.
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Stated vs revealed preferences. Talk to any car salesman and they’ll tell you people love Apple CarPlay, 360 cameras, blind spot detection, etc. People repost stuff like this all day, nobody calls their Congressman and asks for the federal backup-camera mandate to be repealed.
messed up cars@messedupcars
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@mysteriouskat @nighttimemedia You are too naive for this conversation.
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@nighttimemedia It's not a guarantee but it's one possible way forward. "Abuse" is not the right term for something done legally and properly. And btw, not easily.
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So people who are on legal visas have to leave their jobs, where they are valued enough for the employers to have bothered with a Visa in the first place, and then apply for a green card which will get processed one unknown day? What a smart government...
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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Trump's USCIS just told half a million immigrants who entered the U.S. lawfully to leave the country and start over.
For years, Trump said he supported the legal immigration process, and people just had to follow the rules.
That was always a lie.
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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Ah, so what you are actually saying is that you agree that the policy does not make sense on its own terms and is in fact a coded part of a broader effort to restrict legal immigration. Thank you for being honest.
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Robby Chocolate@robby_chocolate
@ReichlinMelnick The "point" is to get an inch, and take a mile. Same playbook the dems have run the last 20 years. Get them out now, refuse to let them back for overstaying visas to begin with. "Pause" visas for 5 years, complain if the left tries to take that away. Make it forever.
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I would like @IngrahamAngle to explain why she thinks it would be “common sense” to force someone who is
- In the U.S. legally
- Eligible for a green card
- Has a job here
to leave the USA and wait ages for a bureaucrat at a consulate to make a decision, not a bureaucrat here.
Laura Ingraham@IngrahamAngle
EXCELLENT!!!! It’s called common sense.
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@ReichlinMelnick @IngrahamAngle Immigration lawyers get no opinion on this.
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@SenRubenGallego The parents can go with them. No separation needed.
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So this means that there will be American children who will be separated from their mom or dad for months or YEARS. This is anti-family.
I’ll do everything I can to stop it.
CNN@CNN
The Trump administration will now require green card seekers to leave the US to apply, potentially impacting hundreds of thousands. cnn.it/3PjRIWF
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@BIGBULLapp @verge Consumers don't give a shit about open source.
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@impossible_eng @verge Nobody cares right up until the firmware update. The DM just told you when the convenience tax starts.
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‘Fuck you, Bambu’: How one private message could change the face of 3D printing theverge.com/tech/931532/ba…
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Are they trying to destroy our innovation economy?
We have employees in the US legally applying for permanent residency.
Now they can't work with us while they wait for an answer?
Immigrant founders building companies here applying for green cards have to leave?
Insanity.
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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