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stevieg4ever
Joined: 11 Feb 2006
Location: London, England
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 Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 6:37 am Post subject: Illegal aliens in US from Korea drop in 2010 |
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The number of illegal aliens from South Korea in the United States dropped for the second straight year in 2010, but the number still remained over 170,000, a report by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released Friday showed.
The number of Korean illegal aliens in the U.S. dropped to some 200,000 in 2009 from 240,000 the previous year. The number then dropped 15 percent last year to 170,000, according to the report.
Such significant drops came even after South Korea was enrolled in the United States' Visa Waiver Program in late 2008, which allows tourists from South Korea to enter the country without a visa and stay up to 90 days on each visit.
The total number of illegal aliens in the U.S. slightly rose last year to about 10.79 million from 10.75 million in 2009, according to the report.
The number of illegal aliens from South Korea in the U.S. formed the ninth-largest group of illegal residents from a single country, with over 6.6 million illegal aliens from Mexico forming the largest group that accounted for 62 percent of all illegal residents in the U.S.
Well at least its decreasing but still, 9th highest...
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hondaicivic
Joined: 01 Jul 2010
Location: Daegu, South Korea
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| Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2011 6:27 pm Post subject: Re: Illegal aliens in US from Korea drop in 2010 |
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| stevieg4ever wrote: |
The number of illegal aliens from South Korea in the United States dropped for the second straight year in 2010, but the number still remained over 170,000, a report by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released Friday showed.
The number of Korean illegal aliens in the U.S. dropped to some 200,000 in 2009 from 240,000 the previous year. The number then dropped 15 percent last year to 170,000, according to the report.
Such significant drops came even after South Korea was enrolled in the United States' Visa Waiver Program in late 2008, which allows tourists from South Korea to enter the country without a visa and stay up to 90 days on each visit.
The total number of illegal aliens in the U.S. slightly rose last year to about 10.79 million from 10.75 million in 2009, according to the report.
The number of illegal aliens from South Korea in the U.S. formed the ninth-largest group of illegal residents from a single country, with over 6.6 million illegal aliens from Mexico forming the largest group that accounted for 62 percent of all illegal residents in the U.S.
Well at least its decreasing but still, 9th highest...
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http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/02/113_82122.html |
And your point is?..... |
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MacLean
Joined: 14 Feb 2011
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 7:14 pm Post subject: |
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| The point is Korea makes a huge deal about a few hundred Americans teaching privates illegally in Korea. Yet, there are 170,000 Korean illegals in the US. The hypocrisy of the Korean media on this issue is astounding. |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Surprised the KTimes had anything to say about that. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 9:00 pm Post subject: |
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| MacLean wrote: |
| The point is Korea makes a huge deal about a few hundred Americans teaching privates illegally in Korea. Yet, there are 170,000 Korean illegals in the US. The hypocrisy of the Korean media on this issue is astounding. |
Can you post me a story about Americans teaching illegally in Korea from an American mainstream newspaper?
Because so far its Korean Media 1, American Media 0 in "reporting on its own"
There are tons of articles in the American media about illegal immigrants. Far more than there are in the Korean media about illegal immigrants.
Which would make the Korean media's hypocrisy astounding. Astounding in that it is less hypocritical than the vaunted American media. I mean that seriously. This was in The Korea Times of all rags. I actually am a bit astounded that they would report this.
To say nothing of the fact that those Koreans who are against illegal teachers might be against illegal immigration in Korea AND America by all people involved.
Also those Koreans who are illegally in the US might not have a problem with us doing a few privates in Korea.
There is one bit of hypocrisy I see here- Someone clamoring for "fairness" but is incapable of being fair enough to compare articles about illegal immigration in Korean and American Newspapers and then compare articles about their illegals in each other's country. That's hypocrisy.
And before you say "but the media in America advocates for amnesty and immigrant rights" remember that they are always talking about working within the legal framework and doing things legally. The Korean papers do publish articles about increasing services for legal immigrants as well, as well as immigration in the face of a graying population.
The issue here is illegal workers and hypocrisy in reporting on them. |
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NohopeSeriously
Joined: 17 Jan 2011
Location: The Christian Right-Wing Educational Republic of Korea
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:36 pm Post subject: |
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I'm a Korean-Canadian and I still don't understand why too many Koreans are willing to stay in the USA illegally. Then again, Je suis un canadien.  |
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West Coast Tatterdemalion
Joined: 31 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 10:55 pm Post subject: |
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| It is hypocrisy. Absolutely. A teacher overstays his visa by a day here and they go batshit crazy. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2011 11:48 pm Post subject: |
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| West Coast Tatterdemalion wrote: |
| It is hypocrisy. Absolutely. A teacher overstays his visa by a day here and they go batshit crazy. |
Who is "they" exactly? How do they go crazy? You mean people in the States don't go crazy? You mean that the people who go crazy think its wrong for the States to go crazy?
Again, who is "they"? |
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West Coast Tatterdemalion
Joined: 31 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:10 am Post subject: |
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| Try to focus. "They." Think hard. "They." I hope that you can come up with the answer. |
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Steelrails
Joined: 12 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 2:33 pm Post subject: |
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| West Coast Tatterdemalion wrote: |
| Try to focus. "They." Think hard. "They." I hope that you can come up with the answer. |
Who? Koreans? Because I don't think everyone in Korea goes crazy.
Who? Immigration? It's their job.
Who? The media? They go crazy?
Again, who is they and how do they go crazy? |
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West Coast Tatterdemalion
Joined: 31 Aug 2010
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 6:29 pm Post subject: |
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| I guess not. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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| Posted: Wed Mar 02, 2011 8:18 pm Post subject: |
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| A korean is more likely to get a job in Korea now than in the US. If I was Korean I wouldn't want to be in the US |
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Neil
Joined: 02 Jan 2004
Location: Tokyo
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| Posted: Thu Mar 03, 2011 4:45 am Post subject: |
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I think it's a fair question to ask why Korea is 9th in the table, when it has I would assume a far higher standard of living than the other countries (not listed but I think it would be a fair guess that a lot of the others are failed central American states) plus Koreans have the quite considerable handicap of the pacific ocean to overcome unlike Mexicans et al.
How do the Koreans get in? Why do they chose to overstay? How do they eventually plan to return home without encuring huge fines, bans on re-entry et al?
For folks from developing nations I can understand why they mght take the risk but Korea is a) a delevoped counry with a high standard of living with plenty of opportunities and b) if a Korean gets the travel/emmigrate bug, they are educated enough to either emmigrate legally to the US or go to a country with a more accessable immigration system ie Australia, Canada or Japan. |
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