Oct 22 2005
Little Support for Bush Immigration Plan
Washington Post article: “Little Support for Bush Immigration Plan”
There are H-1B visas for skilled workers. How come there are not visas for unskilled labors? With some kind of public acknowledgement, it will be a lot easier for employers to comply and for law enforcement to check.
Have a feeling that illegal immigration and IP piracy both result from the huge gap between the developed and the underdeveloped countries. According to Wallerstein (I could be wrong), England used to forbid American colonies to have any Mouflon sheep. Someone had to risk his life to smuggle some into the new world. Soon enough, wool joined cotton as the major exports of the colonies back to England.
This is not fair, one may say. But as much as one is entitled to denounce individual act of theft, the definition of theft may be betraying us.