Japan Pays Foreign Workers to Go Home

Apr 24, 2009 00:44

HAMAMATSU, Japan - Rita Yamaoka, a mother of three who immigrated from Brazil, recently lost her factory job here. Now, Japan has made her an offer she might not be able to refuse ( Read more... )

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goes_kaboom April 23 2009, 17:02:39 UTC
If you're going to be a xenophobic ass, at least own it. Don't blame it on another country: then not only are you a xenophobic ass, you're a xenophobic, weak willed ass.

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goes_kaboom April 23 2009, 17:09:40 UTC
In addition, it's easy for us in America to shake our heads and tsk-tsk at the Japanese... but realistically, dangerously close to half of us would jump at the chance to deport immigrants, legal and otherwise, from This Great Country of Ours as well. Without payment.

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liliaeth April 23 2009, 21:51:02 UTC
But isn't your entire population, with the exception of native Americans, a bunch of immigrants?

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serendipity_15 April 23 2009, 22:06:33 UTC
Yeah, that's the ironic thing, they want to deport all immigrants forgetting that their ancestors weren't from here unless they really Native Americans.

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goes_kaboom April 24 2009, 00:22:12 UTC
Which is exactly why it's totally preposterous.

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