It would not surprise me if the exchange rates were not equivalent, yes.
WaPo has been running a lot of these article. I love all of them but since this is about a computer game designer, I figured it was appropriate for this group.
Looking forward to seeing the game launch in December.
Very Nazi. Literally. They did exactly the same thing.
RichVR
3515
Pure, unadulterated evil.
This is a crime against humanity.
rei
3517
Suddenly the deaths of the 30+ failed UK illegal migrants makes my mom care because they’re Vietnamese and not Chinese. She’s still pro-Trump. Empathy for the treacherous ocean voyage on dangerously-overcrowded ramshackle boats like we did but still pro-Trump. What the fucking fuck. Fuck off, Mom.
The reddit thread on ukpolitics on this was several hundred posts expressing concern, excuses and sympathy for the truck driver and complaining about immigrants taking jobs.
Brexit Britain in a thread.
A good, bipartisan(?!?) start:
Lawmakers have struck a deal that would give legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrant farmworkers in exchange for stronger employee verification in the agricultural sector, a bipartisan group will announce Wednesday.
The deal could reach the House floor as early as the end of November.
The legislation is the product of months of negotiations by lawmakers from both parties and farm and labor groups. It would offer a path to legal status, either five-year visas or citizenship, for longtime U.S. agricultural workers with clean records. It would also overhaul the farm visa system to make it easier for employers to file applications, would limit mandatory wage increases, and would provide year-round visas for industries like dairy farms that are not seasonal.
The bill also incorporates legislation by Rep. Ken Calvert, R-Corona (Riverside County), beefing up the system for verifying a worker’s immigration status in the U.S. and making it mandatory for the agricultural industry.
This actually hits all of the bullet points I’d want in an Immigration bill (caveat at end):
- Pathway to citizenship (I do not believe in second class citizens or permanent subclasses, and think they would be terrible)
- Faster VISA processes
- Meets Industry-specific needs
- Mandatory eVerify.
Caveat: This section gives me pause and I need more information:
would limit mandatory wage increases
This could be done right (tempering $15/minimum wage stuff), or done wrong (enabling widespread abuses and Company Town-style indentured servitude). So I need more info.
Menzo
3520
This all sounds quite reasonable, which is why I’m sure it will fail. Trump’s gonna force wall funding to be in it or something.
We definitely need to wait for his Immigration advisors Hannity and Ingrahm to weigh in.
Timex
3524
Literally no one in DACA is a criminal, because that would throw them off the program.
The former head of ICE (Obama era) was on MSNBC this morning and they responded to that tweet – apparently some Dreamers do actually have criminal records, but mostly for low-level drug offenses or traffic violations. It’s probably safe to say that there are no felons in the Dreamer ranks, nor anyone that could be reasonably categorized as a “hardened criminal”.
CraigM
3526
Until you realize that ‘hardened criminal’ is synonymous with ‘brown’ in Trump speak.
Nesrie
3527
If we can get the GOP out of the top of the government, we can legalize THC and wipe the records of anyone who got caught with possession. That could help too.
I said this last year, and unfortunately it looks to be coming true.
Great episode, though be warned it’s not easy to listen to. They talk about a lot of different things related to the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration by asylum seekers, not just those camping out on the US-Mexico border. The way the cartels are preying on those unable to enter the US was especially tough to hear for me.
