I wish there were more reasoned debate and distinguishing between legal immigration including tech workers (H-1B visas) versus illegal immigration for eg food truck workers, DoorDash scooter drivers.

Also the lack of knowledge about the existence of the fantastic and generous H-2A visa for farm workers is maddening.

H1B is just a cheap labour scam unless you think there aren't any Americans that could do the jobs on the jobs.now website that reposts the H1B re-advertisements.

H-2A is expensive and prone to abuse. It is generally considered a failure by both employers and workers who participate in it. So I’m guessing your use of fantastic and generous is either sarcasm or uninformed?

I've read opinions from farmers who say they wouldn't be able to operate without H-2A.

The stipulations are incredibly generous with unlimited renewals though have to leave the country for 60 days every 3 years.

There's also a pathway to citizenship for specializations in agriculture such as the dairy industry. And they can bring family members too. It's an uncapped program too.

At least on paper it's an incredibly generous visa compared to other types of visas with more restrictions for family sponsorship and immigration.

I agree it's expensive though, that's a big reason why there so many illegal immigrant farm workers. A few reforms and that can be legalized through H-2A

Nobody cares.

Why a debate - we are not allowing enough immigrants, VISA class is just hiding that fact.

The best music is always from ones own youth

Is there any enforcement such as towing and impounding vehicles that don't pay those bills?

You cannot update the registration on your car if you have outstanding fines (at least in CA, but probably in most states).

Driving a car without a registration will (in theory) get you pulled over, and eventually your car will be impounded.

In practice? Car ownership is required to participate in society in most parts of the US and governments are very unwilling to take away people's ability to drive.

>In practice? Car ownership is required to participate in society in most parts of the US and governments are very unwilling to take away people's ability to drive.

Because there isn't support for the iron fisted rules enforcement a lot of HN favors and if the .gov just did it anyway the people would elect politicians who promise to reign that in. Keeping the power on the books and rarely using it is what benefits .gov the most so it's what they do.

Also, "Canadian judge rules thumbs-up emoji can represent contract agreement"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jul/06/canada-judge-t...

That's an extrapolation to finish the entire game.

If limit your token count to a fraction of 2 billion tokens, you can try it on your own game, and of course have it complete a shorter fraction of the game.

But DuckDuckGo does censor search results, if DMCA takedown requests are countered as censorship (which they should be because the system is abused).

Eg, DDG always fail the "watch (specific movie or tv show) online" search query test. Many other search engines like Bing and Google also fail. It's a quick censorship influence test as DMCA takedown requests have a clear track-record of being abused.

One search engine that succeeds is Russia's Yandex. I'm sure they censor plenty of things (eg, material sensitive to Russia), but that censorship set may not intersect with the Google, Bing and DDG sets.

> Eg, DDG always fail the "watch (specific movie or tv show) online" search query test. Many other search engines like Bing and Google also fail.

DDG results are mostly Bing results, so if a page doesn't show up on Bing, it probably won't on DDG either. That doesn't mean DDG themselves censored the results.

As a user that distinction is meaningless. I don't care what they use as a backend, and I shouldn't have to. If their source provider censors search results it means their own search results are censored too.

A few years ago geostrategist author Peter Zeihan predicted that in his deglobalized world (where the US steps back from global policing in favor of domestic matters), the breakdown of the international order it built would cause the government of India would engage in international piracy of Middle Eastern oil shipments destined for East Asia (since cargo ships are slow, unarmed and transit easily interceptable waters for India's navy).

He makes lots of extreme and usually wrong predictions. And he's not yet right on that. But this reminded me that wild international piracy prediction.

that doesnt make sense: in a deglobalized world there wouldnt be shipments of anything to anywhere

Deglobalized is the term Zeihan uses, he means "end of the US security order"

As somebody also directly impacted by the US immigration system, yes please do enforce the laws on the books universally and impartially.

Immigration reform will happen, but regardless no queue cutting.

Country of birth does determine the "priority date" waiting list. Specifically for Philippines, Mexico, India and China. Due to demand. Everyone else is in the rest of the world bucket.

For those countries (especially India) the wait can be more than a decade.

Moving to a points based immigration system without country of birth consideration may one day happen.

Depending on what contributes to points it would encourage better English language abilities and skill sets from immigrants (eg winners being China and India, losers being Mexico)

> Moving to a points based immigration system without country of birth consideration may one day happen.

Anything, honestly, to end the need for informal lawyering that even immigrants with straightforward situations still have to do.

Even if the system is simple enough to not need a lawyer, you should always use one.

A TN visa is explicitly a "non-immigrant visa", there isn't supposed to be a pathway to permanent residency.

It's still possible to through an adjustment of status but the hoops around not leaving the country are much more awkward.

Because permanent immigration is not the intent of a TN visa, it's a loophole.