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Supremacy Question!

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What happened in Charlottesville, Virginia on Saturday and a demonstration within the UVA campus on Friday evening opens up several questions. To my mind, at least, one of them is about how should Universities respond to the ideas of racial supremacy? Civilization is on the side of migration & cultural assimilation. American history is on the side of migration and cultural assimilation. If there is one voice that has considerably diminished in the history of America, then it is the voice of confederate’s voice. If so, who should be afraid of whom? Who is making it a moral question than a political question? Who has failed to see the tipping point? Racial supremacy ideas are not surfacing in the American history for the first time. It has strengthened whenever they are not listened, whenever there is overt application of virtue to the opposite. Whenever, beholders of such voice feel threatened by dominant social discourse. Whenever, beholders of such ideas feel marg...

RAISE Act!

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RAISE ACT is an acronym for the Reforming American Immigration for Strong Employment (RAISE) Act. The bill is introduced in US Senate in 2017. The bill proposes, among other things, the two most important items for professionals are (a) reduction in the overall number of green cards issued each year and (b) changes in eligibility for professional and family sponsored immigration seekers It is expected, if passed in the senate, these changes would result in nearly halving the overall number of green cards issued each year In case of professional immigrant visa seekers, RAISE ACT proposes that those who are seeking for immigrant visa with doctoral or professional degrees are preferred over others and English Language proficiency. If all else equal, young adult applicants are preferred over others. All eligible applicants will be placed in a pool and those who are accepted will be invited to file a Visa petition.  In case of immigration visa seekers under family ...