US Immigration Policy

[Lokrian]

Originally posted by Aristotle
Ahhhh, how arrogantly American of you to think that. Their education systems are superior. Their rewards are based on MERIT. They help their top people excel, rather than focusing on making everyone mediocre. They crush us in math and science. Where do you think we will be 50 years from now when their populace is better educated, more technically skilled, and are the people inventing everything? Do you realize, just for example, if China had invented the internet instead of the US, they would probably already be equal to us economically. That's really all it takes. One titanic technological development (or a series of them) made outside the US instead of inside.



Where are you getting this severely incorrect and racist information? India and China are not North Korea, and it is foolish to think they are the same.

"Since mid-2001, China has expanded the geographic scope of reforms to its household registration system. Formerly confined to roughly 200 pilot towns and small cities, the reforms now encompass Guangdong, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Anhui, Sichuan, and Hebei. Reforms also extend to several large cities, including Shijiazhuang (Hebei) , Hefei (Anhui) , Ningbo (Zhejiang) , Ji'nan (Shandong) , Beijing, Chongqing, and Shanghai. In general, the reforms enable qualified rural migrants to register as urban residents, a change formalized by switching personal identification booklets called " hukous ." Hukous are issued for all Chinese and are inscribed to identify the carrier as a rural or non-rural, i.e., urban, resident. Each urban administrative entity (towns, cities, etc.) issues its own hukou, which entitles only registered inhabitants of that entity full access to social services, like education. "

- http://www.usembassy-china.org.cn/econ/hukou.html

In other words, they don't even qualify to get an education in rural areas.

"Urban workers are free to apply for and leave jobs; they are entitled to state housing and pensions. Rural workers, however, need state permission to seek work in towns and factories. Once employed, they enter a bonded-labor arrangement in which they cannot quit unless they can pay their employer an amount plainly beyond their means. The hukou system forbids them to compete with urban workers for higher-paying jobs, and migrant workers without jobs are subject to arrest by the state's public security bureau. "

- http://www.prospect.org/webfeatures/...n-h-03-22.html

Obviously this is not a major news network type of organization here, and if you find these facts are in error please let me know, but that is the sort of thing I have heard for example on shows like 60 minutes, and here it is in print, as to how China treats its citizens. Maybe not as bad as North Korea, but bad nonetheless.