[mr_overalls]

> Siphoning off potential and sabotaging developing countries through human resource poaching called "immigration"

You think immigration should be illegal?

> Government theft and fractional enslavement through taxation

You really had me in agreement with the first few items. You are not a serious person.

[maerF0x0]

I'm going to guess that they're referring to only allowing "cream of the crop" immigration. (eg H1B or other visas often are only open to top candidates, not everyone)

[M277]

The problem with the argument that this is crippling developing countries is that it's often the case that the top talent can't really shine in their country. They can't realize their potential, either due to the lack of means or corruption or envy or whatever. I am from a third world country and a large part of our scientists did great things because they immigrated, at the same time, there are many great minds here that to do anything at all have to partake in an endless uphill battle.

Like, I'd totally love to have our top engineers and scientists come from the West and do some amazing things here (they 100% can make a great change), but I feel that they actually just can't.

[frankfrankfrank]

Says the person who has no idea that he is not in one bit a serious person. Immigration the way you have been trained to think of it like a mindless dog that does tricks for snacks is a con job of the ruling class to defraud its citizens to increase their profits. And that doesn't even address the fact that "immigration" that you are clearly conditioned to have a co-dependent positive response to, is utterly destructive for the origin society and economy like something out of a scifi movie where an alien ship is just stripping out all the resources from the planet; immigration sucks the life force and potential from a society and destroys the culture so that billionaires can compete to see who is the first to become a trillionaire. And they have you on the hook.

And yes, how is it not factional slavery when the freed person in the USA in 1865 kept 100% of what he earned all his life and paid no property or sales taxes when he bought something … but you pay about 60% of all your earnings over the course of your life to the government that has you enslaved to support others against your will with resources it takes from you. You are a slave to the new aristocracy that is the bureaucratic state that you must pay your serf dues to (which are higher than all serfs ever paid) so that the Lord can use your earnings to bequeath to the aristocratic class their income and assure their loyalty.

If you are not a slave, are you free to leave the USA and life somewhere else? No. Your US government owner will come after you wherever you life to make you pay taxes on your income. Are you free to just quit your job or are you shackled with the bondages of debt slavery? I think we both know the answer to that, regardless of whether you want to acknowledge it.

So try to not be such a mindless herd animal and think for yourself a bit.