<p>juliuscesar1212, U.S. is a global country, a melting pot, created and developed the way you see it now because of immigration.</p>
<p>Alone,</p>
<p>They are indeed a country of immigrants but lets not use the word protectionism that loosely. To best illustrate my point, my country sends hundreds of thousands of registered nurses and allied medical professionals to the United States. In fact, my country is the single biggest source of registered nurses in the US. The US has a critical shortage of nurses and it’s expected to get worst when the baby boomers retire in a couple of years. But instead of them accelerating the recruitment of foreign nurse from my country who has abundant supply of nurses who are NCLEX passers, they decided to halt issuing visa. Now, we have nurse retrogression where the wait for a visa can extend to five to seven years. My sister is a board passer(NCLEX) but she can’t come because of nurse retrogression. They might have the critical need for nurses but they are within their right to accept or deny more foreign nurses. My country itself doesn’t take foreign nurses or other workers from other country. Does that mean my country is not global? Is that protectionism? Millions of my own people work in Asia(Middle East specially) Europe and around the globe. We also supply the majority of personnel in the maritine industry. My own country is not open to foreign workers to reciprocate the millions of our own citizen working abroad.</p>
<p>^ I would guess you are from the phillipines- well no one wants to go to the phillipines anyways 
:0 I am just testing some stuff on CC</p>
<p>Sefago,</p>
<p>“NO ONE WANTS TO GO TO THE PHILIPPINES ANYWAYS” Whats that suppose to mean?</p>
<p>joke joke God it was a joke…I dont even know if u are frm the phillipines…guessing and joking. Sorry if it offended u…thats why i put the smiley face</p>
<p>juliuscaesar: it’s ridiculous that the US is holding up green card applications for years on end. It’s ridiculous that American immigration officials are ruder than any I’ve seen elsewhere. Allowing smart, educated people to stay here and contribute positively to the economy is NOT ridiculous.</p>
<p>Plus in the US there is no such thing as economic rights. There is no constitutional guarantee of a job. There’s no constitutional guarantee of the American gas-guzzling overconsuming lifestyle. The government has no obligation to protect Americans’ “quality of life” or whatever the hell that means. Half of Silicon Valley was created by foreigners. Seems to me letting foreigners come, go to school, and get jobs, and then possibly start companies here is a good way to protect the quality of life here. Because if they don’t do it here, they’ll do it in Canada. Or the UK. Or Australia. Or New Zealand. Or some other country that is more welcoming of educated people. Did you think just because the US has its head too far up its ass to realize that these are the type of smart, educated people that should be forming the base of the US population doesn’t mean other countries are that stupid, nor does it mean that that talent disappears. Instead, they innovate, pay taxes, and make positive contributions to the economy for the rest of their lives someplace else.</p>
<p>Come back and talk to me about “protecting American jobs” or some some other nonsense when the US has thrown out all the illegal immigrants that snuck across the border.</p>
<p>futurenyustudent,</p>
<p>You and i are in the same page. I do not disagree with what you said. I’d rather keep all the skilled and highly educated people who came here through the legal process than people who crossed the porous border along the Mexican and Canadian border. Canada is also more than willing to take people who have been denied H1b visa into their program. There’s no question about the great contribution of immigrants in the US. As is said, my sister who is a board passer(NCLEX CA.) is willing and ready to come but is unable to secure a visa because congress has not authorize a small increase in quota. As you know, hospital administrators are desperate to fill their nursing vacancies with baby boomers retiring and nurses retiring with advanced age. School districts in the US are also heavily recruiting our teachers especially in Math, Science and Special education to teach in inner city schools. They are being met with heavy opposition from the teachers union. Nurses union are also lobbying heavily in congress to spend more on nurses education and retention to avoid hiring overseas. It’s not that they don’t need highly skilled foreigners, it’s not politically expedient in a recession to talk about bringing foreign workers. Congress are very sensitive to their constituents especially because of concern that this recession can linger longer than expected. It’s political suicide for politician to go against the tidal wave of concerns by it’s citizen. Even a talk of an amnesty and the so called Drean Act which has stalled in Congress is getting an angry reaction from citizens. It’s not gonna be us to decide if they need us but it’s up to them if they need our services.</p>