Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she will introduce a bill to end H-1B visas, which allow companies to bring skilled foreign workers, days after Donald Trump backed the program.

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    Sure maybe they do, but you can’t vote in China. You can vote in Canada though. And Canada’s real estate issues are at least somewhat known down here. Which, given how apathetic American media is about Canadian problems should tell you how horrifically fucked up your real estate situation is. It’s almost as if your country is courting exactly that type of relationship with foreign investors.

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      Oh, yeah, our housing situation is an absolute gong show. I’m “hopeful” that our current govs push for a kind of modular/prefab evolution will help, but it’s really not clear how that’ll pan out, or when – and most of their “major projects” that they’re pushing for, are still about building infrastructure for corporations to extract resources to foreign partners, not so much about building up Canada itself, so there’s good reason to be skeptical of it all. Like even the Small Nuclear reactors they’re promoting, are made by US companies and are reliant on US fuel sources, which is absurd.

      But this is basically a thread responding to a commenter’s take on how immigration should be entirely dependant on job acquisition – get a job in Canada? Boom, you’re Canadian. Get a job in the US? Boom, you’re American. The point of my previous comment isn’t so much to highlight/critique “Canadian” or “Chinese” policies on housing and income tax, but rather to point out that there are differences that make the commenter’s take unfeasible in my view. I’m just familiar with the Canadian/Chinese variance as it’s been an issue that Canada’s failed to address adequately for years.