Immigrant Bashing? Or Kind of a Funny Joke?
Debate is running fast and furious on H.R. 5924, The Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act. The bill would increase the number of nurses and physical therapists that are allowed to immigrate into the country.
The bill apparently responds to a shortage of nurses in the country, but there are many commenters who don’t trust foreign nurses, assuming their poor language skills or training, or perhaps wishing to keep them out because they could lower the wages of U.S. nurses. From what little I know, we could use more nurses in the country, and concerns with language or training are for the hospitals and health systems that might hire them to worry about - not for the immigration laws to take care of.
One of the people who seems not to like the idea of immigrant nurses is a commenter identified as “Sam.” Sam’s jab at foreign nurses is a pretty good joke. But maybe it’s inappropriate. Depends on the spirit in which it’s intended, I suppose. Here it is:
The Immigration Officer said, “Sindhu, you have passed all the tests so far, there is only one test left. Unless you pass it you cannot stay in the United States of America. Make a sentence using the words, Yellow, Pink and Green.”
Sindhu said, “The telephone goes green, green, green, and I pink it up, and say, ‘Yellow, this is Sindhu.”’
Make your own judgement about the joke. And make your own judgement about whether we should have more nurses in the country. Here’s the current vote on H.R. 5924, The Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act. Click to vote, comment, learn more, or edit the wiki article about the bill:
Nijy
Nurse is serving the human coounity, Not neglect from his language.
If u can’t Import Nurse,
Can U thing Why sortage of nurse in USA??????
Think it n then make joke on Nurses.
honest
I object to H.R.5924, the “Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act”. Increasing the number of work visas seems like an easy solution. However, I believe that developing a long-term strategy that directly addresses the factors contributing to the nurse shortage in our country, such as increasing our capacity to educate new nurses and improving working conditions, is a more productive use of time and resources and is the only real way in which America can solve this long-term issue.
Import of foreign nurses into the USA is a short-sighted expediency that does not go to the core of the nurse shortage problem. The real underlying problem is that plenty of American applicants for nurse schools are turned away each year just because there are no enough nurse schools and teaching staff in the USA. The 3 solutions to this problem is: education, education, education. Please reject H.R.5924, the “Emergency Nursing Supply Relief Act”; instead, build more nurse schools in the USA.