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To: GUSTAVE JAEGER who wrote (281401)	3/23/2006 8:13:10 AM
From: Taro	Respond to of 1572915

Actually, your claim about Ireland, the UK and Sweden applies more accurately to the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, all of which being far more open to UK, Irish, and North European immigrants That is no longer the case with the USA though. That changed about 2 years ago, when the Bush administration clamped down on legal immigration and visa quotas in a big way. The illegal immigration to the US may in the meantime have been boosted out of control, but as opposed to the perception so common in the USA, European immigration, while mostly legal, has been significantly reduced. As a matter of fact any legal immigration has indeed been curtailed. And because the legal immigration has mostly been limited to highly skilled and talented people, the US high tech industry is already at a disadvantage vs. for instance Asia. Taro