The Myth of Legal Immigration | Sheena Koshy | TEDxJacksonville
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- Опубликовано: 30 ноя 2016
- Sheena Koshy immigrated legally to this country in 2001, but obtaining her U.S. citizenship was a journey that took 15 years and four visas to complete. Despite her absolute and rigid observance of the rules, Sheena’s path to citizenship was incredibly expensive, tediously long, and bloated with bureaucracy. As a result, she is passionately committed to dispelling the myth that our nation’s immigration problems would be solved if only everybody would immigrate legally. The legalization process, argues Sheena, is mired in complications and desperately needs a compassionate overhaul.
Sheena Koshy has never voted. That’s because she’s only ever spent 8 years of her life in the country of her citizenship. Born in India, she left at the age of 2 for Bahrain, a small island in the Middle East, where she had her first DQ ice cream, learned to love alphabets thanks to Sesame Street and ate a lot of shawarmas. She spent her middle school in Abu Dhabi, high school Dubai, her undergraduate in India and moved to the United States for university in 2001. She recently became a citizen in May of this year and is excited to vote in her very first elections. Her day job involves helping organizations find their niche, seek their community and connect the two by telling their stories. Her career has centered on leveraging the unique ways in which brands can engage digitally in this connected world we live in today.
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Now she might be feeling lucky because employment based category also affected by country cap (7%) for indian its unfair wait 80+ years where as if u born in less populated country u will get I year or so, country birth should never be criteria for employment visa rather then skill.
worked with Sheena, great person
I am from Nigeria, The toilet in our house was outside. I do not see any micro aggression here. Stop dividing America.
She's not dividing america it's just that some people say rude things and others don't. I don't think people should be outraged because someone thinks they said something rude.
@@emanueljames7801 Death to all Leftist
Back in the day, each of my parents, US-born, lived in homes with outhouses of various descriptions. BTW, "America" was founded as divided, actually, purposely, with blatant, stipulated hypocrisy. The "Land of the Free" went on to be the most successful slavery nation in world history!
@@masterjay4992 And the 1st Amendment, eh.
Nice one here. Your points are great info for reflection
Yes there should be immigration reform, but not DACA!
DACA was a squishy solution. It is supposed to be Congress’ job but they can’t even get their heads together. Obama didn’t do the right thing with the exec. order but he did yell “pass a bill”. Thatks how messy this issue is.
Abraham Ali There’s so many things wrong with deporting people who have only known America as their home.
Eb5 is the only good visa in my opinion
That was really powerful and informative.
Getting naturalized as an Indian citizen takes 7-12 years. So why the constant complaint that the Us journey is long? Its about as long as other countries.
the complaint is about immigration not becoming naturalized
I know, right? Especially, since as a Westerner who was born and raised in India but isn't ethnically Indian, it's extremely difficult to obtain Indian citizenship and the right to vote. Also, most Tibetans who have lived exclusively in India for the last 2 or 3 generations still don't get any Indian citizenship, which means they don't have ANY. The nerve of this Indian lady to complain about this relatively speedy immigration /naturalisation process in the US in comparison, when India wouldn't grant the same to a US citizen (and in the extremely rare case that they might, they would make the applicant renounce their former citizenship, because they don't allow dual citizenship, unlike the US), it seems so disingenuous!
Legal 5 years
Assimilation is the worst to expect.
Yet, in many classic examples, that never happens, as desperate white nationalists have been realizing. Much of the US Southwest, including the 2 most populous states, is nonmajority. Curiously, that process is versatile and multilateral. Curiously, that's also been happening in Europe.
I think there should be a yearly limit on immigration. Because of the economic and national security impact.
There are general limits, as this speaker described...in her Malta vs. Mexico example. Still, how is that decided, since the US is a global economy? This US has been experiencing a record, multi-level labor shortage, at least since 2018, which is stifling economic growth. In 2019, the record-low unemployment vs. the record labor shortage led to projecting 2020 as a year of economic stagnation...and then COVID arrived. Much of the pandemic effect on global and US economies is grudgingly waning, but part of the current inflation woes were already expected before COVID. The US cannot sustain economic prosperity without economic growth and business expansion, without sufficient labor growth, which has historically been provided by immigration.
I wish they would let H1-B applicants, and not companies, bear the costs of the application. You won’t let me petition for myself, let me at least pay for myself, lol
It is not myth, it is the LAW.
Try watching it before commenting, and while you're at it, learn English
I am Indian myself who came here legally - some things what she says bother me - after all the problems she lists American values appeal to her over her home country? No need to put down what you left, we all know that we came here for the money, be honest about it
2nd "i worked hard for this & that" but immigration is hard? It has to be easy? How many can the US accept?
But giving the same number of visas for all countries regardless of population does seem unfair
She has been brainwashed and paid by the Left to be a puppet actor on stage. She don't know what she talks about.
@@masterjay4992 We are still slaves - way too long underfoot we continue to self-abuse, praise the white man - he must be better because he is white
Plenty of bad things going on here in the US - Racism - which she ignores, because well, they are white
The sheer stupidity of millions refusing to take the vaccine spreading the disease to everyone else
Nothing like that in India - no Indian has ever refused the vaccine
oh Yeah and in India if you win the most votes you form the govt
@@ramaraksha01 Praise the White man? That's a stereotype.
@@ramaraksha01 I never experienced racism. Nationalism and racism are 2 different things.
@@masterjay4992 I am responding to what she is saying, not you - putting down a poor country and praising a rich country - it's not that hard to do
What if, super novel concept, I know, I know, they genuinely didn't know whether in India toilets are inside or outside, and it was just a question, instead of a "micro aggression"? Also, I will say that I have stayed in few places in India where the toilet WAS indeed outside, so your indignation does seem a bit fake and quite laughable to me. But you do you...
It's the tone and inflection many times with the microaggressions - I'm all about gaining knowledge, but instead of asking "so you have toilets inside your house?" you should ask " can you tell us how your bathrooms in India are compared to here?" You get the same knowledge, and one way is MUCH more respectful.
@@delilahjennason1901 well, maybe they, like myself, have spent time in India, and know for a fact that somtimes toilets in India are outside. In my experience this is true about a tenth of the time. I ve spent maybe 7 years in India, all over the place.
@@delilahjennason1901 also, what's supposed to be the problem with the many outdoor toilets in rural India? I know it's true, but I ve never considered it to be a problem in any way, it's just a neutral fact. So why does it need to be a microaggression, if it gets mentioned or inquired about?
America has no obligation to open immigration to anyone. No immigration reform is needed. Immigration should be even stricter and all immigration should be numbered to a few thousands every year.
how can you overlook that this country was built on immigration?
Why didn’t she stay in her country?
Seeking university education. Most US college students don't stay in their hometown, nor home county, nor home state. Besides, with the US as a renown nation of immigrants, isn't that silly question?
@@candidone8544 We are not moving to other countries to go to college! The cities, counties and states we are moving to are still in the United States you m0r0n.
Don’t they have colleges in her country?
There should not be anything easy about being admitted to the country with the most opportunity in the entire world. I may be missing something but this sounds like a lot of complaining. If you dont want to jump the hoops to get here then go back and work to fix your home country.
Meh. No US-born person had any say about place of birth...none! Why should such coincidence be worth nearly as much as with this speaker had to experience? Nobody, anywhere, has any choice of birthplace nor birth circumstance...none! So, how can the US-born (moi) claim that anyone, who has to struggle through immigration, is somehow less deserving?
I won't listen to lies. Why don't people of 3rd world nation's stop having kids. If you can't feed shelter and support them don't have children. Duh...
Good Demon Simple answer for a simple mind
In terms of Mexico, the US has made trillions off the “war in drugs” and helped destabilize Mexico and emboldened cartel violence - forcing these folks to flee.
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