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by Lorento 3969 days ago
It's funny how blind people are to the same thing happening today. Most employers openly refuse people based on their nationality and we are perfectly accepting of that, even enforcing it with the law!

I wonder if people in another 100 years will think it's wrong to discriminate against people because of who their parents were.

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If this is a veiled reference to affirmative action, at least show the courage to say what you really mean.
I mean not allowing foreigners to work, even when they live in the country. Ironically, the public's distrust of the Irish and other foreigners has led to the law disallowing them at the border rather than individual employers at the job application. We don't allow Irish to freely enter the US and work today.
Right but that's not because they hate immigrants or think they are inferior or whatever. It's because they don't want them to compete for jobs with Americans. It's an attempt at protectionism of labor and preventing a race to the bottom. Your accusations that it's racist or discrimination is just not correct.
Not entirely racism, but still discrimination.
Yeah, but that's about non-Americans. It's already legal for US Border Patrol agents to shoot from American soil across the Mexican border and kill Mexicans, because there's no (US-)Constitutional right to life for non-Americans.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2015/04/24/us/ap-us-border-p...

Ah yes. And even if there's a "points system" for highly qualified candidates, is there equality of opportunity?
Yea points sound nice in a way but I like to just replace the specified nationality with "black" and see if it still sounds OK. "There's a points system to allow the most successful blacks to work among regular citizens."
> Most employers openly refuse people based on their nationality and we are perfectly accepting of that, even enforcing it with the law!

I assume you're talking about the H-1B visas, etc?

Yes, can you imagine if there was a "black visa"? We still discriminate hard but it's so entrenched that it seems obviously right.
Most countries discriminate between citizens and non-citizens. As a non-citizen here (US) I'm actually not too upset by this.