Oh, very true - but the same is also true of Canada, which (as you know) has very high immigration rates. And which, also, has easier and more straightforward paths to legal citizenship. In my job, I meet many clients who first fled from their countries of origin to the US, are denied asylum there (in some cases after living and working there
legally for many years) and come to Canada, to be granted Convention refugee status within a couple of years of arrival.
It is swings and roundabouts; for many immigrants, it's easier to get work in the US, though most of those I meet did survival jobs. Typically, engineers or accountants or even doctors worked as cleaners or line-workers in factories. It's not quite as easy to get survival jobs, at least in London (Toronto's a very different story), though also by the time they come to me they're fed up with minimum-wage work and want to get back into their professions, which is another uphill climb altogether.
But this is going off onto a tangent.
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Wendy
