The University near my home in Canada has millions of students from China who drive extremely expensive sports cars.
Young people from India make deliveries with trucks, older people from India are crippled (from poor nutrition and no exercise?).

Not so in my part of Canada, many Indian families are successful business people and entrepreneurs .

 

Or you can go into Canada, then walk in to the U.S. through an unmonitored border.

??? How can you secure a five and a half thousand mile border? You make it sound as though Canada does not have border security??

 

why not walk in from Mexico. every months tens of thousands of people do that and they have been doing it for years.

 

I talked to six or seven different folks at USCIS

HA! Yes it must have been a few years. Gone are the days of speaking to humans at the USCIS. They learned a lot from Covid. Like that they can all work from home and that if nobody is there to answer the phone, the world doesn't stop spinning. The "due to covid, excuse excuse excuse" message has been retired and replaced with a conspicuous unapologetic absence of any option to be connected with a human, no matter which of hundreds of endpoints you end up on in the "press 4 for X, press 5 for Y" "choose your own adventure" game. And the robot has been given an attitude! Seriously! If you keep shouting "REPRESENTATIVE" or "AGENT" or "I NEED TO SPEAK WITH A HUMAN" it will threaten to hang up on you. It literally says something like "if you ask one more time to speak with a human I will have to end the call."

I wouldn't even be mad about this if I thought it meant they cut staff. I've often remarked that if I'm going to be treated with disdain by a government employee who operates with robotic adherence to a protocol; whose capacity to exercise human judgment and discretion has been restricted or forfeited in lieu of a handful of IF/THEN statements or a poorly thought out flow chart, then that person ought to be replaced by a computer. And I meant it. A flatscreen could inform me just as easily as the rude mouth breather at the DMV, that my safety inspection is 18 hours too old to be valid for registration renewal.

No, I wouldn't be mad if I thought this degeneration of service was the cost of streamlining an operation to save me money as a taxpayer. But when is that ever the government's goal? If the goal was to expend less effort, that would make more sense. The USCIS is even more apathetic than the rest of the government because the people they deal with aren't even Americans.

 

Many Canadian food stores do not dare to mention Christmas but instead they talk about Ramadan and Diwali for all the Indians.
When I phone a store or government department for Customer Service then rarely is it answered by somebody who can speeky Zee Ingrish.
Every day my phone rings and goes bloop then when I say Hello over and overdue to a delay, a strong accent from India is selling something and wanting my credit account or bank account number.

 

Many Canadian food stores do not dare to mention Christmas but instead they talk about Ramadan and Diwali for all the Indians.
When I phone a store or government department for Customer Service then rarely is it answered by somebody who can speeky Zee Ingrish.
Every day my phone rings and goes bloop then when I say Hello over and overdue to a delay, a strong accent from India is selling something and wanting my credit account or bank account number.

Sounds like someone is a little racially prejudiced !
BTW, English is the second official language in India, thanks to the 90yr long British Raj.

 

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That’s simply not a true representation of actual spoken language. When a Mexican Spanish speaker says “América”, the mean the same thing as Estados Unidos. They are synonymous. When a Canadian English speaker says ”America” they mean the same as ”United States”.

Note that there is no unqualified ”America” among those maps, You could properly relabel the last one as ”America”. Literally all over the world and in every language spoken by people who know the US exists, “America” means the same thing.

This takes nothing away from other countries in the Americas, it doesn’t denote or connote any sort of ownership of the continents that share the name as part of their own. Note that the rhetorical map even conflate geography with sociology and politics in choosing which names to present—an even stronger argument that the last one—placed there for rhetorical effect—can and should be labeled “America” to fit in the list.

Sorry for the screed but this so rankles me in its mere rhetoric wrapped in fake rigor.