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- PrettyLadyGrace, on 10/11/2007, -3/+33it was really beautiful that they did that. I hope they allow them to come here, because with attitudes like that they would make America a better place.
- Akaji, on 10/11/2007, -0/+24They already are here, on corporate/employment visas. They want to become full citizens, but the screwed-up policies, bureaucracy, and red tape makes it nearly impossible. And meanwhile, millions of illegal immigrants from south of the border continue to get away with getting around the system.
- newstart, on 10/11/2007, -1/+25I would be disgusted if my forefathers who came 200 years ago to the US were held up in a bureaucratic logjam. America should always be open to hardworking indviduals who can contribute to the American society. America wouldn't be existing today if our forefathers were to be prevented from migrating to the US.
- str3ama, on 10/11/2007, -1/+22"We donated them in the same spirit in which they were provided to us"
Sure you did..If you donated them in the same spirit, you wouldn't be telling us exactly where you donated it to..nice attempt for them to get some good PR for themselves, how kind of you to re-gift a present and pretend as if you had the sentiments to send it in the first place. This country needs more talent and expertise, as well as innovation and ideas and we're severely limiting ourselves by trying to keep earnest and considerate people from contributing to the country.
Although they don't mention it in the article, what they did is known as "Satyagraha" (peaceful resistance), rebelling against authority through a peaceful resistance and in a non-antagonizing way. Gandhi's best quote: "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win." - longboarder543, on 10/11/2007, -0/+21Isn't it fantastic that highly skilled immigrants who are following our laws, and who are an asset to the nation, get the shaft, and our Congress repeatedly tries to ram a bill down our throats that would instantly legalize millions of people who broke the law to get here, and at the same time send a big F-you to everyone braving the system, however imperfect it may be.
- mretx, on 10/11/2007, -1/+20Lage raho MunnaBhai!!!
- Caleb83, on 10/11/2007, -0/+16You spelled Gandhi right. So often I have to read some putz write Ghandi. And for this I give a digg.
- xxvtcxx, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9if we didn't have immigration then more jobs would be outsourced, meaning more dollars will be drained out of the country. If we took the skilled workers from other countries, the majority of the money would stay within the country. So its completely ignorant to say that the US is "better off without all these immigrants"
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+10bring in civil disobediance. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_disobedience considering the amount of tax being payed by the skilled immigrants, that would definitely make a roundtable.
- crazydiode, on 10/11/2007, -3/+11Time to go back i guess... vande mataram !!
- KnightWhoSaysNi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6I have several (legal) Indian immigrants working for me, and we pay them exactly the same salaries we pay American Citizens. We just hire the best person for the job. Period. These people (and the company) spent a lot of money trying to get these applications in before the deadline just to have this dumb ***** Emilio Gonzalez say he was just kidding.
- brianboyko, on 10/11/2007, -0/+6My great grandparents came in in the bureaucratic logjam that was Ellis Island.
- bicyclethief, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5How noble for Immigration to give the vets second-hand gifts!
- noisician, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4ok, i'll bite, what is a "sliding horse" ?
- Bega, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4dude I have pakistani friends who refer to themselves as pakis, what the ***** are you talking about? *****, we all refer to ourselves as brownies. Clearly we're racist to our own culture.
- cyberscriber, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5I've seen americans eating *****, in a porn DVD
- FearlessFreep, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6If you digg for spelling...um...you must not digg very much
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Hey, us redneck coders work just as cheap as the immigrants. You just have to get us a new keyboard every now and again when we spill our dip cups on them.
- chaimasala3, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4So I was at the 7-11 the other day, and this group of rednecks came in spitting up chew and speaking a language that they seemed to think was English. I just hope they don't represent the other 300 million Americans in this country. How many Indians are on this planet? and I'm sure people posting negative comments on here can definitely generalize based on their experiences.
- digudown, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4whats joining digg recently got to do with anything? Are you expecting legal immigrants to wait for 5 year and go through a long legal process to be able to digg and submit articles on digg?
- sethosayher, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4What the hell are you talking about? Not every person who immigrates to this county is the illiterate unskilled peasant you envision them to be. And these people have as much right to the American dream as anyone else. They aren't even coming here illegally! The people featured in the article are highly-educated, highly skilled individuals who have used legal channels to pursue their citizenship. I don't get your point.
- datechoon, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3job security, my friend !!
- catalysis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3It's only appropriate that they respond with an equally revered American tradition, re-gifting.
- patrix, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4Redneck-ers can code? News to me.
- bvnay, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4"Any reprieve won't come fast enough for Vishal Nanda, 31, an IT consultant who had moved to the United States in 1999. Employed at a subsidiary of Time Warner, he had waited five years for a chance to stay permanently, then was forced to begin his green card process over again because of a technicality, he said.
"There is too much uncertainty," he said. "I don't stand a chance in my lifetime to get a green card."
He is moving back to India next week to join his wife, a DENTAL SURGEON." - intuitivesoul, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Next time if you see someone drinking from sink in the bathroom at work try telling him its not appropriate. I am sure that someone will not mind and may even thank you for teaching him etiquette.
Also, don't ***** generalize from whatever you have seen observing one person. - slapyou, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3Its "busch" gardens, you self-righteous *****, not "bush" gardens! Or are you so enamored with your dicator president that everything looks bush to you? You talk about "engrish", but you don't even know english yourself.
Oh, and I was reading the other day about a few "individuals" in Florida who forced a boy to have sex with his mom, and then poured cleaning solution into his eyes in an attempt to blind him. As per your ***** up thought process, this would mean that all the "individuals" residing on the american subcontinent are the most evil people on earth.
Thankfully the rest of the world understands that people like you are a minority, or else no-one would ever want to immigrate to the US. - adamkhel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+4You're a damn fool. India, Pakistan and Bangladesh were all 1 country 50 or so years ago under the British Empire. That is the reason for speaking English.
- bloomoglobulin, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4???
- themonkeysaid, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Now, it IS a possibilty that they weren't Indians as most do speak English(or Hinglish) , especially the ones that get to go to America.... you could've mistaken them for pakis, lankans, bangladeshis, anything really
- gwolf001, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2The Anecdotal Fallacy: http://www.fallacyfiles.org/volvofal.html
- themonkeysaid, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Right, they WERE one country ..60 years ago... things have changed since then.... literacy in Pakistan is currently at about 48.8% while in India it is 76%. And most literate in Pakistan don't speak english , 'literacy' being dispensed at madrasas and all...Lal Masjid is a fine example
- digjam, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3these bastards will never understand....indians should ask them to go thru 5 yrs of paperwork n legal processes to get a visit visa to see their fav " thaaj mahaaal"
- GoneSouth, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3Welcome to the 21st century. If US corporations can't hire the workers they need in the US, those jobs will move elsewhere. So you need to choose between a) allowing in more foreign workers who will pay taxes here and spend their money on US businesses, and b) having the jobs move nearshore or offshore. There is no choice c) where you cancel all H1-Bs and American programmers magically all get a raise next year.
e.g., see http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/07/microsofts_cana.html
(not affiliated with that blog, it just highlights the issue nicely.) - Unremarkable, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2BohicaTwentyTwo: Real programmers don't document code.
- patrix, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1So much for offering incentives for legal immigration, eh? No wonder people rather jump the fence than jump through the hoops of USCIS.
- desiInsider, on 10/11/2007, -14/+15Samjho ho hi gaya!
- bostondigger, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1well done
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1"deeply disappointed". How I hate the media's mass use of the word "deeply".
- mconnors, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Most people don't realize families in india will take out a second mortgage on their house just so they can afford to get their child on a plane to the US for a proper college education- when they get here they work their ass off simply because its a matter of survival while american counter parts are puking in the beer bong which is why many become doctors and engineers. You should consider you are not very smart, out of your league and incapable of meaningful discussion- less comments are more.
- BohicaTwentyTwo, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3I'd prefer if they learned to properly document code. That would be nice.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Its that clip from bollywood.
- pradeep1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1It is my firm belief that if the USA does not mend its immigration policy in regards to highly skilled workers, then we as a nation will lose technical superiority to other countries over time. I am Indian and I have many family and friends who now go to other countries such as Canada, U.K., Belgium, Germany, and even Japan to work in technical jobs because of the US's immigration policy. They are willing to learn a new language (German, Dutch, French, and Japanese) to work in these other countries.
I believe the USA should be actively going out to other countries and recruiting their top talent and bringing them here, instead of throwing up hurdles to those that want to come.
I remember recently reading about how Singapore is coming to the USA and other European countries to recruit their top talent in highly technical fields. They are offering them positions in government created research institutions, and offering perks like housing, education for their kids, and even a job for the spouses. They opened up a research park staffed with American, Brits, French, Swedes, and Germans along with their own in-house researchers to further the study of stem cells, etc. Why don't we have a progressive policy like that?
How long will we be able to maintain our technical superiority if we don't amend this immigration policy?
I'd say that at least 40-60% of the cutting edge research and breakthroughs in this country are being done by people who recently immigrated here. It is probably closer to 70-80% if I do a straw poll estimate of the research institutions I've been a part of. Even if the ultimate credit for the publication goes to an American, a majority of the labor was done by an Indian, Chinese, or some other foreign national who is working to become an American. - str3ama, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1he's an idiot, he probably saw some tv show that lied and said Hindus drink cow urine and he - as an idiot bleieves it.
- adamkhel, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2You're right, let's not get any H1-Bs, people who pay a ******* in taxes, even social security (which they can't collect). Let's instead just outsource your twiddle-dee job directly to India/China.
- patrix, on 10/11/2007, -1/+2Trust me, if the U.S were to eliminate H1-Bs (although I don't think anyone with a brain would dare to), most Indians would be content going back. Just as most Japanese do go back. Good luck competing in the global competition then.
- elementfire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Yes? And?
- slapyou, on 10/11/2007, -2/+3So bringing awareness to an issue, or pushing one's own viewpoint is gaming? continuity, you are one ***** up animal. Read this, step back and realize the person you are, and stick to your day job (undoubtedly hamburger flipping, judging by your affinity to mentioning it as your favorite pastime). Here is a compendium of your own comments on various posts in the past.
Begin quote:
An armed society is a polite society.
I was disappointed that there were no jobs in the field of hamburger/sandwich manufacturing listed.
More Indian immigration spam. Stop gaming digg.
Buried as spam.
Linus Torvalds is not my President!
Buried for for being ***** spam. Piss off.
Just another in a series of recent (successful) attempts to game digg into putting their immigration agenda on the front page.
I have two forms of ID. Suck on them both.
Check the profile: member since July 3, digging tons of immigration stories. If I see one more of these whining wage whores spamming the front page about the plight of their fellow "highly skilled" workers from over seas, who just want to come here to fill jobs that no American can possibly do (for their reduced rate) and make America better in the process I'm going to puke. - longboarder543, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Damn, longboarder, what a well-informed, intelligent comment. Seriously, bravo.
- cloud9ineteen, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0The problem with you guys is, you beleive USA is right and everyone must live like you! No one should come within your arm's length coz you need your 'personal space'. When you are ready to live as a society, cooperating and collaborating, and you don't mind the sweat and tears of another falling on you, you will grow up. India is not perfect. Neither are Indians. But leave your prejudice out. Judge each person for what he is, not for what tha last person of the same skin color did to you.
And as to Engineering, Sciences and Math, when will you start recognizing brilliance and brilliance and not as nerdiness / geekiness. Try to recognize that to keep the cost savings that keep the balance sheets of thousands of your companies out of red comes from the labor of Indians, here or elsewhere.
Look around you, learn from every person you meet, instead of judging him instantly based on your prejudiced. And tell me about your 25th ancestor and tell me if he was born here in the US. So, in a sense, you are just another one of us. At least we have a place to go back. Most of you don't even know where you came from! -
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