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Re:Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After ... by rhaway84773 on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @05:53AM (#35973211)
You do realize that basically 90+% of Americans today are all immigrants right? You do realize that right?

Essentially you are stating everyone who loses a job in the U.S. should leave the US.

Or alternatively you want to draw a line when the good immigrants are allowed to enter after which are the bad immigrants. And I’m sure that conveniently that line will ensure your family becomes part of the good immigrants.

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Re:Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After ... by confidantlake on Thursday May 18, 2023 @06:18AM (#35986073)
This is not true. If your parents were immigrants and you were born here you are not an immigrant.
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Re:Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After ... by arcticbull on Friday May 19, 2023 @04:01AM (#35999057)
Hm, not really. That would make you a second-generation immigrant. [1]

First-generation immigrants are folks who are born outside the US and naturalize. "In the United States, among demographers and other social scientists, 'second generation [immigrants]' refers to the U.S.-born children of foreign-born parents."

Not in the strictest sense, but it's not the bright line you're making it out to be either.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigrant_generations

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Re:Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After ... by confidantlake on Sunday May 21, 2023 @07:18PM (#36025538)
This is incorrect, 90% of Americans are not immigrants. Please stop spreading misinformation.
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Re:Big Tech Resumed Hiring Foreign Workers Just Weeks After ... by krapp on Sunday May 21, 2023 @07:35PM (#36025654)
Unless your ancestors were in the Americas before Columbus arrived, you're an immigrant. First generation, tenth generation, a hundred generations from now, it doesn't matter. Your great great grandfather landed at Plymouth Rock? You're not native.
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