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I mean not allowing foreigners to work, even when they live in the country. Ironically, the public's distrust of the Irish and other foreigners has led to the l
by Lorento 11y ago
I mean not allowing foreigners to work, even when they live in the country. Ironically, the public's distrust of the Irish and other foreigners has led to the law disallowing them at the border rather than individual employers at the job application. We don't allow Irish to freely enter the US and work today.
- njloof 11y agoAh yes. And even if there's a "points system" for highly qualified candidates, is there equality of opportunity?
- Lorento 11y agoYea points sound nice in a way but I like to just replace the specified nationality with "black" and see if it still sounds OK. "There's a points system to allow the most successful blacks to work among regular citizens."
- Houshalter 11y agoRight but that's not because they hate immigrants or think they are inferior or whatever. It's because they don't want them to compete for jobs with Americans. It's an attempt at protectionism of labor and preventing a race to the bottom. Your accusations that it's racist or discrimination is just not correct.
- Lorento 11y agoNot entirely racism, but still discrimination.
- geofft 11y agoYeah, but that's about non-Americans. It's already legal for US Border Patrol agents to shoot from American soil across the Mexican border and kill Mexicans, because there's no (US-)Constitutional right to life for non-Americans. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/04/24/us/ap-us-border-patrol-shooting.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/04/24/us/ap-us-border-p...