I expressed myself regarding TPS visas many times. I very strongly believe that the TPS visa should not exist. I won’t repeat the whole story again but TPS is the absolute worst thing that happened to Central America in the past 30 years. Use the search function on this blog to find my posts about Salvadoran gangs and how they came into existence.
Regarding specifically Ukrainian refugees, I assume people are unaware that one of the most controversial policies of the Zelensky government is that it wants the countries who took in Ukrainian refugees to return them. Last year, a new ministry was created in Ukraine to look into ways of bringing back these refugees. Two days ago, a large sum was appropriated in the Ukrainian budget to support these policies. One of the main complaints about the Zelensky government in Ukraine is precisely that it’s too aggressive in trying to bring back the refugees. There’s endless talk that the government is exercising pressure on European allies to start revoking the refugee status. This is controversial in Ukraine but it’s a big subject of discussion.
There are two, I’d say, schools of thought in Ukraine regarding what to do about the population collapse that happened because of the war. One school of thought advocates bringing in millions of migrants from Asia. The competing school of thought wants to bring back the existing Ukrainians. This is debated hotly, and I’ve participated in many a discussion regarding whether to embrace the neoliberal theory of people as interchangeable widgets or not. Its the perennial neoliberals versus nationalists debate. Zelensky was originally elected because people thought he’d be more globalist and less nationalistic. And he disappointed many (and charmed many others) by moving rapidly and dramatically towards nationalism.
I hope this context helps people figure out the situation.
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So are you going back to Ukraine?
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I have no idea what in my writing could have given anybody the idea that I’m a refugee. There was nothing to be refugeeing from in 1998 when I emigrated to Canada.
I haven’t had a Ukrainian citizenship since 2003. And I’ve never been on a TPS visa nor know anybody on it. I’m a different social class, although I know American readers will have conniption fits that I mention something so taboo.
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Yeah, during apartheid, my parents used to travel on their British passports. I totally get how imperial elites can feel superior go the country they profess to identify with.
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The only country I have ever sincerely identified with is America. I didn’t leave Ukraine out of poverty or hardship. I experienced neither and won’t lay a claim to the suffering that I never went through. Economically and professionally, I was very successful in Ukraine. I left all that because I never felt at home. I was deeply unhappy in spite of the money and the success. I don’t know why it happened but I can’t be myself outside of an Anglophone country, specifically one as crazy and freedom-loving as America. Mine is an unusual situation that I never encountered in anybody else.
My father once wrote a short story about an immigrant who is so miserable in her new country that even the autumn leaves she steps on rustle in an annoying way. And I was shaken because that’s exactly how I felt my whole life before emigration. The leaves rustled wrong, the air smelled wrong, everything was off, everything rubbed me the wrong way. I emigrated into a much worse economic situation joyfully because money and comfort were nothing next to the existential malaise I was experiencing.
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Sounds like Musk’s reason for moving to America.
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I’m not familiar with his journey but my results are definitely more modest. 😁
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It’s well known that the apartheid drove the best and brightest out of the country.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/apartheid-was-helped-by-twisted/
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Doesn’t explain why he was an illegal immigrant for a few months though.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/10/26/elon-musk-powerful-critic-of-illegal-immigrants-worked-illegally-in-us-at-start-of-career-report-says/
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Doesn’t explain why he was an illegal immigrant for little while though
https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/10/26/elon-musk-powerful-critic-of-illegal-immigrants-worked-illegally-in-us-at-start-of-career-report-says/
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I find this to be the most tedious issue on the planet. Seriously, how can anybody begin to care?
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“why he was an illegal immigrant for little while though”
Rules around immigration are so byzantine and change often enough that almost everyone ends up as an illegal for some period of time.
And you buried the lede…. Forbes is basically publishing this to express support for illegal immigration.
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Yes, those 20,000 Haitians dropped in Springfield, OH are absolutely all going to invent Teslas and launch rockets. In 3, 2, 1…
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Just cruel.
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I thought nothing was going to shock me today but then I saw this.
I’m going to go lie down now.
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I’m sorry!
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It’s not you. It’s the evidence of the worldwide grift.
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