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No need a trophy, thank you. I paid taxes (lots!) to social security in US and three other countries with no chance of getting anything back. But I'm fine with that, I got bitcoin. I had to leave the US when my work visa could not be transferred to another employer due to visa cap and other legal bullshit. But I doubled my income in the UK. My point is, not all migrants are bad for "your" country. I put quotation marks because we don't pick birth places nor parents, so nothing to be proud of. And also, there are dumb and smart people of all DNA origins.
We need to clarify the definition of migrants
If you have a valid visa you are not a migrant
Also a tourist is not a migrant
Regarding smart and dumb people of all DNA origins, clearly there are patterns and trends that cannot be ignored unless you actually believe in the blank slate
I am surprised you didn’t say dna is a social construct
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Trends come from a child's environment: family, teachers and friends/neighbors, not DNA. So I do believe in tabula rasa, how else can it be?
A migrant with a valid visa is still a migrant. Without - an illegal migrant.
The legal status cannot be established without a due process, just based on ethnicity.
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50 percent genetic
5 percent home environment
45 percent peer group such as friends, neighbors, classmates, etc
DNA is a social construct according to tabula rasa
Legal status is simple, you are legal or not legal, doesn't require due process
That's like saying gender cannot be established w/o due process
You become what you import, i.e. garbage in, garbage out
edit: can we say immigrant and now migrant? is it because immigrants can't spell?
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What about Mastercard to avoid visa requirements?
In Los Angeles no one cares about immigration status since the rule of law is antithetical to Spanish speakers
Plus California is a sanctuary state
Your timing must be terrible or you have bad luck
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in retrospect, my luck was awesome to escape life sentence in the US of A
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you were forced into slave labor in USA? you were forced to be a drama queen?
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Green card status forces worldwide taxation by the US, much like citizenship. I am glad my life did not follow that path.
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People and this is wild and a completely crazy idea get to CHOOSE this life! Can you believe it?!? Being able to send money back home?!?! ITS WILD!
You act like we forced people into this when that's just a flat out lie. You also are acting like the US doesn't produce wild wealth for immigrants hence the whole reason they come here! If it sucked they wouldn't come but yet they do….
Hmmm wonder why that is?
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Many do choose this life, and the US propaganda does (did) awesome job to attract them. Only few realise there is no exit when the trap shuts. Denouncing US citizenship is much harder than getting it.
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You must love UK now because it's on a path to Muslim theocracy which seems to fit your lifestyle better
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UK does not tax its citizens worldwide, and I don't reside there.
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I forgot about Spain
Will Spain be conquered by Muslims again like the Moops invasion in the 8th century?
edit: I forgot about UK's reputation as a tax haven... NOT
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Actually, Spain is being conquered by Chinese businessmen. All with valid visas.
Unlikely. Lesson learned.
Can you tell the 30 million illegal immigrants in USA to self deport to Spain like you did?
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I did not self deport to Spain. I found a job offer in the UK, and they did not have work visa caps. People's lives are unbearable in their home countries because the collective west exploits them as resource colonies. Cause and effect.
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Do you have any examples?
Please enlighten me
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You did not learn in school that all of Africa and Latin America/Caribbean were colonies?
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you did not learn in school England had 13 colonies in USA?
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yes, and their empire fell. like Rome to barbarians. now US's turn.
examples of exploitation by the "collective west"
today African and Latin America are independent and yet they still blame colonialism for their corruption, graft and violence
edit: Can you provide examples of exploitation? W/o European colonists, Africa would never have discovered the wheel, thank goodness Africa is so civilized and advanced today
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Of course, they cannot catch up and will remain resource colonies. Drug cartels will supply for as long as there is demand in the US.