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Jay wrote:

Cybargs wrote:

I'm still confuzzled about being an illegal immigrant YET being in college at the same time. apply for a student visa homie, you'd be set.

We have very strict racism-based quotas that put strict limits on immigrants from many countries. I imagine it's very difficult for an Asian student to receive a visa just because there are already so many Asian students here.

Dilbert_X wrote:

rdx-fx wrote:

The major detail about illegal immigrants, is precisely that they are illegal.

If they want to be non-resident workers, then do it legally.

Come in through the front door, or don't come in.

If we need all these low-pay workers in the country, then fix the INS process to let more good workers in on temporary work visas.
Let in the ones with the clean criminal background checks, clean work history, and good references.
Drug runners, criminals, low lifes, and psych cases? Fuck off, stay out.


It's not about race, it's not about bigotry, it's not "they took ur Jurbs".  It is that they came in illegally.
Come in through the front door, like everyone else, or don't come in.

Is it not the case that once you're over the border getting work as an illegal and living in the community is not really too difficult?

A huge people-magnet has been created, border security is fairly lax, it almost seems deliberate.

Cybargs wrote:

zimbabwe should just stop using their own currency, just go to using the greenback as its defacto currency yo

article wrote:

The mineral-rich country is now using the US dollar and the South African rand.

Macbeth wrote:

The U.S. government moved to block the proposed merger of beer giant Anheuser-Busch InBev with Mexico's Grupo Modelo on Thursday, with a Justice Department official calling it "a bad deal for American consumers."

ABI already owns about half of Modelo, which brews the popular Corona brand. The Justice Department's antitrust lawsuit accuses ABI of trying to eliminate "a significant competitive threat" from Modelo's Corona brands by purchasing the rest of the Mexican company for a proposed $20.1 billion.

That deal would boost ABI's share of the U.S. beer market grow from about 39% to 46%, the lawsuit states. Add that to the 29% already controlled by No. 2 brewer MillerCoors, and two companies would split about three-quarters of the $80 billion field, said Bill Baer, the head of the Justice Department's antitrust division.

TYRANNY

Shoppers who pay using credit cards could soon be hit with surcharges from retailers looking to offset swipe fees, a policy now put on the table after a legal settlement between card issuers and merchants.

But while the move is legal, it remains unlikely that many stores, particularly large retailers, will charge consumers so-called “checkout fees” that can go as high as 4% of the total purchase price.

The legal battle started in 2005, when a class-action lawsuit was filed against MasterCard ( ) and Visa ( ). Retailers claimed card issuers colluded to charge higher swipe fees, and sought approval to charge shoppers a checkout fee. A $7.25 billion settlement last summer gave U.S. merchants the option to pass on the cost of swipe fees—payments merchants make to credit card issuers—to shoppers in the form of surcharges.

The option kicked in this week,and retailers can now add a surcharge to purchases made using any or certain types of credit cards. Visa and MasterCard barred merchants from adding a checkout fee prior the settlement

Jay wrote:

Don't use a credit card?

Was the merchant supposed to eat 4% loss on every credit card purchase? Makes sense

Jaekus wrote:

There's been many instances where credit card surcharges apply. Booking flights is one.