I was super upset after visiting China and returning to the USA. Our immigration people were so much more authoritarian scary than the Chinese had been. And the Chinese had this cool smiley computer interface where you rated the chinese immigration official for their interaction on the spot. So China was not only friendlier and more welcoming, but also more accountable. We really need to check ourselves in America. Our Federal Government is out of control (I say this as someone who was failed by the Courts only to have them completely reverse themselves with respect to their rulings against me when COVID came because it would have been inconvenient to follow their precedent because people would die so they finally had actually follow the law, not the Bureau of Prison's Court supported 'interpretation' of the law, and as someone who was abused (I guess we no longer use the torture term) while incarcerated).
I can't imagine the horror of having the Feds have so much power over my life as an immigrant does. Or the fact that you can loose it all in a heartbeat (as happened to my friends in the bay areas in the 90s when they lost their jobs and their VISA sponsors).
I can't imagine the horror of having the Feds have so much power over my life as an immigrant does. Or the fact that you can loose it all in a heartbeat (as happened to my friends in the bay areas in the 90s when they lost their jobs and their VISA sponsors).