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Engineers Are Leaving America For Canada (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from a report via Bloomberg: The H-1B was created in 1990, part of an immigration overhaul signed into law by President George H.W. Bush that also created the EB-5 investor visa -- the subject of a fracas involving Kushner Cos. seeking Chinese investment -- and the diversity lottery, which Trump has attacked. Today, an estimated half a million H-1B holders live in the U.S. No one tracks exactly how many ditch their skilled visas for the permanent residency Canada offers, but during the first year of Trump's presidency, the number of tech professionals globally who got permanent residency in Canada ticked up almost 40 percent from 2016, to more than 11,000.
In 1967, Canada became the first country to adopt a points-based immigration system. The country regularly tweaks how it rates applicants based on national goals and research into what makes for successful integration: A job offer used to come with 600 points, but now it's worth just 200. Other factors like speaking fluent English or French -- or, even better, both -- have been given more weight over the years. Country of origin is irrelevant. In 2016, Canada increased national immigration levels to 300,000 new permanent residents annually. Last year, in consultation with trade groups, it created a program called the Global Skills Strategy to issue temporary work permits to people with job offers in certain categories, including senior software engineers, in as little as two weeks. Since the program started in June, more than 5,600 people have been granted permits, from the U.S., India, Pakistan, Brazil, and elsewhere.
In 1967, Canada became the first country to adopt a points-based immigration system. The country regularly tweaks how it rates applicants based on national goals and research into what makes for successful integration: A job offer used to come with 600 points, but now it's worth just 200. Other factors like speaking fluent English or French -- or, even better, both -- have been given more weight over the years. Country of origin is irrelevant. In 2016, Canada increased national immigration levels to 300,000 new permanent residents annually. Last year, in consultation with trade groups, it created a program called the Global Skills Strategy to issue temporary work permits to people with job offers in certain categories, including senior software engineers, in as little as two weeks. Since the program started in June, more than 5,600 people have been granted permits, from the U.S., India, Pakistan, Brazil, and elsewhere.
Seriously, this is America's original sin. Farming too hard in the colonies? Trap a bunch of Africans and bring them over as slaves.
Not quite.
Africans enslaved and sold other Africans.
The Portuguese, Spanish, French and English bought those slaves then stuffed them in boats and sent them to work in their colonies (the ones that survived, anyway).
When the US was founded as an independent nation, slavery became a hot topic not because the north thought it was bad and the south was racist, but because the governing structure of the country involved indirect representation of people, and slaves were people. Well, three fifths of a person each, after haggling with the north who thought they should be zero fifths of a person.
The 3/5s compromise was fine enough until the south saw their economic and legal power was being stripped away as population and industry in the north grew and as the north kept adding states. Westward expansion saw continual fights over whether new territory / states should have slavery or not. The industrial revolution wasn't exactly kind to plantations.
The north wanted to abolish slavery and send slaves back to Africa, or at least to end the slave trade and grant protection and state citizenship to any slaves who made it north to a free state. The south, of course, wanted to keep their slaves, have them count for representation, keep the slave trade and keep expanding westward with new slave states.
Eventually, we had a civil war over the issue. The north (union) won - barely. But let's not pretend they were fighting for noble reasons. The fight over slavery was about money and power for most people of the time, not what was morally right. Even Lincoln didn't start with the Emancipation Proclamation. He was fine keeping the status quo. So much so that we engaged in the bloodiest war in US history (true to this day) when another option was available - just let the south secede.
I find it odd that people love to point to the US as being the poster boy for racism, slavery, etc. The US was not alone in that shit, and in fact inherited that shit from their British masters.