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Originally Posted by Sly
No. There are typically requirements for legal immigrants to meet base level standards indicating that they can take care of themselves and will not be leeching off of public resources. This goes for most countries. Immigrants that can pay into the host country, by starting businesses, investing, have special skills, etc. they get additional "perks," if you will. As in, bumped up in the line.
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My ex wife's grandfather (irish) was showing me pictures a few years ago of his old housing projects. The world famous queens bridge houses, queens ny.
It was all irish and italian immigrants on welfare.
Of course they finally got accepted as equal whites and were able to avoid redlining to get up out of there... but they had to start at the segregated bottom everybody else got stuck in for a while.
Shit changed once whites became a minority in nyc tho. Now everybody is getting up out of there. Nobody stuck anymore.
Im rambling, but i just assumed most immigrants had to start from the bottom. I dont have much experience in all this as im puerto rican descent. Entire different problem. Citizens that get treated as [illegal] immigrants no matter what we look like or do.