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I have the feeling that the whole trade war starts from a pile of nonsense.
soldar:
You do not know what real fireworks are until you have been to a "mascleta" in Valencia. You can feel the buildings shake. Unless you have been bombarded in a war zone you have not experienced anything like it.
A video cannot transmit the power of the explosions but here goes:
rstofer:
--- Quote from: technix on May 25, 2019, 04:53:38 am ---
--- Quote from: windsmurf on May 25, 2019, 03:50:14 am ---The problem is with those who hire illegal immigrants.
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Here is a burden of proof problem: how are you sure whoever you are going to hire is not an illegal immigrant, in face of all the privacy laws and potential forgery? Is there a central registration where employers can search for an applicant and find out his/her immigration status?
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It is not mandated (yet) but, yes, there is a system: eVerify
https://www.e-verify.gov/
At the moment it is voluntary but if an employer uses it, they are off the hook for employing illegal immigrants. Should they choose to not use it, they can be prosecuted if they are found to be employing illegal immigrants.
For some reason, Congress is unwilling to require eVerify in other than Federal contracts.
rstofer:
--- Quote from: Marco on May 25, 2019, 04:49:04 am ---
--- Quote from: rstofer on May 25, 2019, 04:46:38 am ---Why do you say that?
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It's essentially apartheid.
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I don't see it that way. Where apartheid exists, both parties are legal residents or citizens of the country. In the situation being discussed, the worker is not a legal resident or citizen of the host country. They're just a temporary worker with a particular skillset.
When I worked under a Green Card in Singapore, there was no expectation that I would learn Mandarin or apply for Permanent Residency. I came to the country, did my work and went home. I was just a worker with a particular skillset and it was never intended by either party that I would remain in the country. I was fine with that.
The penalties for overstaying my visa were severe. Changi Prison is not a place I wanted to visit.
rstofer:
--- Quote from: technix on May 25, 2019, 08:53:40 am ---To be honest I wish the US would get to the bottom of the Russian interference problem. There are Russian interference in both 2016 US presidential elections and Brexit referendum, who knows what Putin can do with the less-than-transparent internal selection process of China and DAMN we neighbor Russia.
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It is my understanding that Russia's interference was accomplished by starting fake news stories on the various social media sites. Low information voters may indeed believe everything they read on Twitter or Facebook. I subscribe to neither.
The issue is whether it made a difference and it obviously did because the 'anointed one' didn't get elected. You can see why there must have been massive intrusion because no way in the world all those red states would have voted red if it weren't for the Russkies and their propaganda machine.
It's not clear to me how to separate the propaganda on social media sites from the propaganda on mainstream media.
Everybody needs a boogeyman! Especially when the 'anointed one' didn't win. She was a 'slam dunk', you know!
Trump won on a platform of putting people back to work, reducing taxes, controlling immigration and squaring up trading. Two out of 4 isn't bad and he's making headway on trade. Immigration control isn't going to happen.
SkyMaster:
IBTL 8)
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