On Sat, May 7, 2016, at 11:16, Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > Indian and Chinese H1B holders are getting screwed, which is of course > > the whole objective of the country limits. > > The *whole* objective? You don't think that *part* of the objective may > be > to ensure that citizens of countries other than India and China can get > green cards too?
If not for the quotas, a citizen of some other country would have an equal chance to get a green card as a citizen of India or China. This is a much simpler question than Python convention attendees, since there are *in fact* more Indian or Chinese people in actual existence than citizens of any given other country, which can't be blamed on any form of discrimination. > Perhaps the country limits are also in place, at least in part, to manage > the rate at which new immigrants arrive in the country? That's immaterial, we're not talking about a limit on the total number of visas. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
