Comment by lovich
1 month ago
For more useful feedback, this is the sort of commentary that means I’m disregarding the posters views going forward.
> https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46642131
> But the whole argument is disingenuous. The article is about mass immigration. Silicon Valley’s success has fuck all to do with the millions of immigrants that come in every year illegally or through family reunification.
He snuck in “family reunification” in a discussion about mass emigration and conflated it with illegal immigration in scope.
I went through the family reunification process. It was a benefit extended to me by the government as a citizen, and I’m native born before the jingoists join in.
You have to sign up to take care of said family’s welfare until the point that they have made enough payments into the system that they are no longer a burden. I remember having to calculate it for my spouse during the citizenship application for them a decade after the green card application.
I legitimately detest this person and their views over this, their attempt to lump in all forms of immigration with violating the law, and now you know why they get comments grayed out whenever enough people hear their dog whistles.
I am also here on someone else’s H1B. I wasn’t even a citizen until high school. It doesn’t matter, it has nothing to do with the aggregate effects of immigration on the country. I’m sure you’re a highly intelligent person. You should be able to separate yourself from the analysis. Even more than that—we should be skeptical of conclusions that flatter our own personal narratives.
Family reunification is a broken feature of our immigration system. It’s why a handful of skilled immigrants from my home country have begotten massive enclaves of poorly educated and poorly assimilated immigrants in places like Queens. They're transmission vectors for home-country culture. The New York Times did a great podcast that covers the broken promises of the 1965 Hart-Cellar Act and how family reunification was a major loophole in it: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/podcasts/the-daily/electi...
Nah.
This is down to axioms. I find your views on immigration abhorrent and I think you’re a piece of shit.
There’s no more analysis to be done, it’s a personal set of values and you’ve crossed them.