The Foreign Ministry says Koreans will be able to visit the United States for three-months without a visa beginning from December.
Personally, I think this is a good thing, even if I see San Francisco’s Korean population growing a lot larger in the near future.
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Well, I don’t know if it’s great for the US, but it certainly is great for us. My hometown is near the Canada-US border. A couple of summers ago we (my wife and I) drove by the border-crossing. She has never been to the US, so we thought we’d go for a little drive over the border, maybe even do a little bit of shopping. We were just about to turn the car around when we remembered that she needed a visa.
More anchor babies, massage mamas, overstaying “students”, how exactly is this good for the US?
Oh wait, we get to sell our beef in Korea. That’s right.
#2. didn’t see that coming. right.
i wish koreans won’t abuse the system but overall, what was it, like 3.5% that overstay? anyway, i hope all these “here comes the massage parlor wave” jokes makes you feel better about yourself.
“The only people who are the losers here are the people of San Francisco who are going to hate the way the city looks in two or five years, when the illegal immigrant population grows massively,” said Mr. Oltman
If it’s immigrants who don’t bring with them skills or money, then that may very well be true.
Um, Mr. Passions, one of the things, one of the very important things that makes (has made) the US such a successful economy is (has been) its openness to skilled foreign workers. You have many of the best universities, but one of the worst grade school systems. Many of those grads from your universities are foreigners, who stay and make America better (at least in dollars and cents terms. I don’t live there, so I can’t comment on y’all’s race relations). America’s advanced economy simply cannot run on locally-produced talent. You don’t have enough of it.
And…
http://www.petersoninstitute.o.....archID=901
#5,
You do realize this is about a visa waiver for 3 months. When was the last time it took you 3 months to complete grad school?
Damn. I was hoping no one would notice that. Tell you what: you let me slide on this, and I’ll overlook the fact that you can’t spell the names of famous European luxury brands.
The massage parlor/whore digs are no more fair than English teachers and other foreigners being stereotyped - incorrectly for the most part - as criminals, being unqualified, etc. by some Koreans. The vast majority of Koreans will not overstay, more Koreans than ever will be spending money in the US, and it will probably improve America’s image here.
This is a good thing. America needs some reciprocity in handling visas. So long as people follow the visa rules, there really shouldn’t be a problem. Here’s another idea for people on welfare and/or people that went through the immigration process, the right way. The different states could set up agencies that catch and deport illegal immigrants and levy fines to business that support illegal immigrants. I’m sure California could support and utilize a larger agency than say, Nebraska. It is a slap in the face to all the immigrants that follow the rules to allow amnesty to these illegal immigrants. Fuck the price of strawberries.
Anchor babies: that’s where you’re going to see a huge increase.
Babies float, and thus would be useless as anchors. I guess you could tie stones around them, but what would be the point of having the baby there then? Just use the stones.
Why is the South Korean government announcing U.S. government policy?? Shouldn’t it be announced instead by the U.S. Department of State?
Do Koreans not see how arrogant they are?
Many don’t. Cambodians, Somalians, and Hmong come immediately to mind.
They sure have a talent for forming criminal gangs, though.
Doesn’t half of Canada live within 150km of the US border?
Not so fast. Thank God.
http://english.chosun.com/w21d.....80013.html
We wouldn’t want pure people of the Han to visit the #1 enemy of South Korea.
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