Jules, > Good for you that you were a legal immigrant to the US. Would you elucidate > as to how this came about? Were you accepted as an entrepreneur applying > through a business Visa or did you come through the legal loophole of being > a student or being sponsored by a family member who happened to have used > the same student visa system or an overstaying tourist. I happen to > know many Goans in the US (living there since the 1950s) - many of > whom travelled there on tourists or student visas, overstayed. ... ...
Your response is so incoherent that I really do not know where to begin. Nevertheless, let me give it a shot. About my immigration: There was no loop-hole, no illegalities, nothing fancy about my immigration process to the US. I was never sponsored by a relative nor did I have to beg someone to take me to the US. It was a simple legal process that I used in order to immigrate to the US and I am proud of it. Its called the H1-B visa and it allowed me to take up employment from day-one after my arrival. It also meant that the US government got to collect Social Security tax, Medicare tax, state income taxes and federal taxes on every dollar I earned - which is how it should be. In addition, I purchased my own health insurance as well. I did not become a financial burden to my host nation and never took any assistance from any US government agency from day-one - Ever. I did not displace a local; nor did I accept lower wages than the locals. In fact, I was paid on par with the local standard (or possibly more) - as I came in with high demand skill set that enabled me to take up employment in Silicon Valley, California. You have a problem with this? If you aren't familiar with the H1-B visa process, please educate yourself as to how it works. It was a very fair program when it was first launched way back in late 80's/ early 90's. However, in recent years, American corporations got greedy and began to misuse it, such that, now-a-days it is mostly used to replace high paying older locals with lower paying younger immigrants. Currently, the situation is so bad, I know of very few Silicon Valley companies that pay market rates to new immigrants. These days, greedy American employers use this program to depress local wages by flooding the market with cheaper imports. This is no different from dumping cheaper steel from China to the US or the UK markets. I have written extensively about this problem. Just google up and check my past posts on this subject and the effects of Globalization. Trump and others want to change the situation. Check this out if you care to know why. BTW, Mercury News is one of the big publications in Bay Area and Silicon Valley in particular: http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/01/30/trump-poised-to-overhaul-work-visas-relied-on-by-silicon-valley-tech/ Below is another link. I would prefer to replace the H1-B program as an auction rather than a lottery system ( Y Combinator provides seed funding for startups ). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10539100 > From what I see - you appear to be a very selfish individual, who instead > of helping people wants to keep them away. You are very much like a few of > the Goans that I met in the aftermath of the Brexit vote. These so called > brown Englishmen (who arrived in the UK from Africa) very proudly indicated Nope. I am not a selfish individual. All I care is that my tax dollars go to the benefit of legal residents of the United States. I give rat's @ss about illegal folks. Every country has laws. If you enter a given country illegally, you are basically breaking their law - for which, you should be punished - not rewarded. Try over-staying your visa in the Arabian Gulf or India and see how fast they'll come to get your butt out the door. This has happened to an elderly Goan who was born in Goa and who subsequently became US citizen. A couple of years ago, he visited Goa on a tourist visa and tried overstaying (why not? After all, he was born there). Unfortunately, someone called in the cops and he was basically asked to leave the country immediately. Upon his return back to the US, he applied and received OCI status. The reason I am giving you the background to the little incident above is that you support illegals - I don't. Regarding BREXIT ---------------------- Please look up my thoughts on BREXIT. I am proud of the Goans who voted for BREXIT. I know my younger brother did (Now please don't request me to elucidate how my sibling immigrated to the UK. Hint - he didn't get there on a Portuguese passport). Like me, he too never took a penny ... err .. pence from the British welfare system - Ever! So, to wrap up my response - I DO NOT wish to provide any help to any ILLEGAL alien coming to America in any shape or form - as I would be breaking American law. You can take your stupid 'Sermão' some place else. Cheers, Jim Fernandes Scarsdale, NY. On Thu, 2 Feb 2017 03:09:13 +0530, Goanet Reformat <[email protected]> wrote: > [Please trim the digest before replying to it. --Goanet Admin] > > From: Jules Fausto Mendonca de Sa <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 14:46:34 +0000 > Subject: Re: Goanet Digest, Vol 12, Issue 68 > > Dear Jim, > > Thank you for your message. If you had bothered to read through you would > have realised that I had only made a passing remark about the US and > instead spoke mainly about the issues in the UK. Now that you have tried to > be sarcastic, you are probably ignorant to the fact that your beloved > President's mother is said to have been one of those illegal Immigrants ... ... > Regards > > Jules
