Egypt: the worst country in the world? (1 Viewer)

Fred

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It's not crazy at all. If you don't protect their rights, all you get is exploited illegal immigrants. You don't create more jobs for locals at all, you just violate human rights. Protecting the rights of undocumented workers is one of the most important things one can do.
Once they cross that border illegally, its nobody's fault but their own that they get their rights violated.
 

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    Ideally it shouldn't be Ok to employ them anywhere at all.
    Well it's not, that's why they're called illegal workers. But they will always exist, as long as immigrants are willing to work for less money. So you might as well dispose of your idealism and turn to more practical thinking.
     

    Fred

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    Well it's not, that's why they're called illegal workers. But they will always exist, as long as immigrants are willing to work for less money. So you might as well dispose of your idealism and turn to more practical thinking.

    They should be smart enough to know that and not jump over the border, as a government i am not responsible for people that i did not allow in my country in the first place, its hard enough trying to please my own people, now i have to accommodate illegals too.
     
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    They should be smart enough to know that and not jump over the border, as a government i am not responsible for people that i did not allow in my country in the first place, its hard enough trying to please my own people, now i have to accommodate illegals too.
    As a government (hello Government Fred, btw, title suits you) you are responsible for whoever is within your borders at any given time. They may be citizens, tourists or foreigners who snuck across the border or who overstayed their tourist visa. If they are there, and you as the authorities consent to this or are unable to do anything about it, then that doesn't absolve you of the responsibility. If you're not responsible, who is? It's not like their home government has the right to invade your country to order those people out.
     

    Fred

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    As a government (hello Government Fred, btw, title suits you) you are responsible for whoever is within your borders at any given time. They may be citizens, tourists or foreigners who snuck across the border or who overstayed their tourist visa. If they are there, and you as the authorities consent to this or are unable to do anything about it, then that doesn't absolve you of the responsibility. If you're not responsible, who is? It's not like their home government has the right to invade your country to order those people out.
    You're talking about them as if they're a bunch of kids who don't understand the consequences or ramifications of their own actions. Neither the home government nor the illegal's government are responsible for them once they've crossed that border illegally. They're responsible for themselves and should understand that they are here illegally and therefore do not have a legitimate claim to equal rights or anything of the sort.

    Governments should clamp down on illegal immigrants by deporting them and putting them in a blacklist not allowing them to ever enter the country again.
     
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    You're talking about them as if they're a bunch of kids who don't understand the consequences or ramifications of their own actions. Neither the home government nor the illegal's government are responsible for them once they've crossed that border illegally. They're responsible for themselves and should understand that they are here illegally and therefore do not have a legitimate claim to equal rights or anything of the sort.

    Governments should clamp down on illegal immigrants by deporting them and putting them in a blacklist not allowing them to ever enter the country again.
    We're talking about basic rights that ensure decent working conditions. If you as a government look the other way while your own industry creates a de facto slave labor class of workers, you're just as guilty of it as they are. No government that values basic principles of human decency would allow that.

    You are talking about the people who are already at the bottom rung of society, working the most menial jobs. What is the grudge you seem to have against these people?
     

    mikhail

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    There is no such law on the books. Look it up, thats what was proposed in Arizona but the bill that actually passed in no way gives law enforcement the right to stop someone for "looking hispanic".
    I knew it was amended, but I'm more interested in the sentiment which saw it proposed in the first place.
     

    X Æ A-12

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    It's not crazy at all. If you don't protect their rights, all you get is exploited illegal immigrants. You don't create more jobs for locals at all, you just violate human rights. Protecting the rights of undocumented workers is one of the most important things one can do.
    So deporting people who are here illegally is violating their rights? What right do they have to be here in the first place?
    I knew it was amended, but I'm more interested in the sentiment which saw it proposed in the first place.
    Oh, well you mentioned "laws that allow that behavior" so it didn't seem like you knew.

    What is interesting about this sentiment? There are nuts in every debate who are willing to take up extreme measures regardless of the potentially cruel and devastating effects of their actions.

    Hell, if they weren't being watched so closely by authorities then the Arizona militias would be out in the desert lynching every boarder jumper they came across instead of just watching and calling INS. If you look then you can find people who favor far more "extreme" methods than police having carte blanche with hispanics.

    But that doesn't mean that they are an accurate representation of the sentiment in the U.S. or even specifically Arizona.
     

    Fred

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    We're talking about basic rights that ensure decent working conditions. If you as a government look the other way while your own industry creates a de facto slave labor class of workers, you're just as guilty of it as they are. No government that values basic principles of human decency would allow that.

    You are talking about the people who are already at the bottom rung of society, working the most menial jobs. What is the grudge you seem to have against these people?
    Why would i have anything against them? the only thing i have against them is that they're breaking the law. Its so typical, whenever someone says anything against illegal immigrants, then he must have something against them. If i was white, i would have been called a racist.


    As a government i won't look the other way, i'll find these organizations/companies that are employing illegal immigrants and punish them harshly too. I'm guessing governments like the American one are too lenient with employers that employ illegal immigrants.

    A governments main purpose is to ensure its citizens welfare, illegal immigrants illegally leech off the country they migrate to, they are a threat to a country's lawful citizens. Therefore they should be treated as such and should be punished accordingly.

    Like Andy said, they shouldn't be there in the first place, the argument about their rights shouldn't even occur, because they have no right to be there anyway.

    If they want equal rights, they should enter a country legally and through the proper channels.
     

    Naggar

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    alrighty, i'm yet to check the website u posted martin but going with the stats i think u need to look at them in a different perspective. i will use the second stat regarding immigrants not being favored for jobs. in a country with 70+million people ( and not enough resources) finding a job is a nightmare!! and there fore its common sense that egyptains have the priority in the job market bec its tough as it is to find jobs being an egyptain. it should be known that egypt has a lot of immigrants from sudan who have escaped war. they find jobs in egypt part of a UN program, there are also a number of foriegners who decide to come an live here in cairo for numerous reasons ( mainly bec its much cheaper here compared to there countries, and also due to the historical value found in egypt)


    as for women in the work place, i cant really give u a straight answer bec i have no clue about how fair there chances are. there are loads of women working but how fair is there chance is sth i dont know much about.

    i can safely tell u egypt is a rough place to live in but its def not the worst place on earth. yeah sure there are a million things that annoy me and even depress me but its simply bec life is made tough for us ( by the government) hence making the good in people just vanish!


    i think that would be the scenario in any other country with similar circumstances.
    Agreed.


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    I read the first page only but I must add:

    -I know many places where they always hire immigrants -with other non egyptian passports specially- over Egyptians, and pay them a lot better

    -I know many places where they refuse hiring veiled woman, and it's pathetic we fight for veiled women rights in France but it happens here too

    -ALL the couples my age, the girl worked before the guy and makes more money, believe me stats dont always prove things
    for example, iaquinta is our 2009 top scorer..

    and at the end I must also say, Egypt is the country of contradictions, in everything, people own BBs when they have not enough money to eat, and some own cars and have no money for gas
     

    Zé Tahir

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    We're talking about basic rights that ensure decent working conditions. If you as a government look the other way while your own industry creates a de facto slave labor class of workers, you're just as guilty of it as they are. No government that values basic principles of human decency would allow that.

    You are talking about the people who are already at the bottom rung of society, working the most menial jobs. What is the grudge you seem to have against these people?
    :tup:
     
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    Martin

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    Ze'man agrees with me, I don't remember the last time this happened. I'm writing this in my diary!
     

    Enron

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    Andy and Fred are correct that in theory since illegal immigrants are indeed illegally in a certain country that they do not share the benefit of that nation's laws.

    However, that really does nothing to address the issue. It also doesn't stop international organizations from trying to enforce human rights law, as they would for a refugee or exiled person which exist in an almost similarly exact plight.

    Anywho, I think we all know the answer to the immigration issue. And it doesn't include building great walls or mass executions in the California desert. :D
     
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    Anywho, I think we all know the answer to the immigration issue. And it doesn't include building great walls or mass executions in the California desert. :D
    Do you remember in Prince of Persia they had those spikes that would rise up from the floor when you ran across it? To avoid getting killed you had to jump over them.
     

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