Border/ travel security is the least of it.
The best technical talents from all over the world are looking less and
less to the US for jobs because of the disadvantageous work visa and
naturalization situation in the US.
I have an extremely well educated, and talented Indian friend who has
been working for Amazon in the US for 4 years. After bucking the US
naturalization process for 4 years, he has decided, like many of his
friends that he is going to emigrate to Canada, get a job there and quit
amazon because he can become a citizen there in 1 - 1/2 years (with his
skills but even WITHOUT a job) where in the US he it is probably he will
have to wait for 7 years.
Presently, every 3 years during his work visa renewal process he can't
leave the US for travel purposes for 6 months and if he lost his Amazon
job he would have to leave the US in 7 days (this varies from state to
state) making it very difficult to change jobs unless he can make it
seamless and making his life in general no more than a transient one.
Because of this situation, he hasn't bought a house here although he can
well afford one...
He well paid but treated like a indentured servant. And now that he
can get paid equally well elsewhere he and many like him are leaving the US.
db
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sorry, my post was a direct response to the previous comment regarding
airport security in France. I don't recall the original post. I can't recall
having personally had any problems with Customs. I think they mostly harass
foreigners. However it distresses me that there are people who are discouraged
from travelling to the US because of horror stories they've heard regarding US
customs, despite the favorable exchange rate.
On 2/9/08 19:35, "David Chessler" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Read it again. It's not the TSA. It's customs, and it's not clear
what threat they're defending against: pornography, or perhaps you
have some drugs in your hard drive.
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