Polish Immigrants Leave America for Europe
Nowy Dziennik, Posted: Jan 25, 2007
NEW YORK – A surprising number of Polish immigrants are packing up, closing their bank accounts, and leaving the United States, reports Polish Daily Nowy Dziennik. Banks such as Pekao U.S. Money Express in New York City are seeing a growing trend of Poles withdrawing hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings to take with them as they look for opportunity elsewhere. Reasons for the departure include frustrations with the process to become legal immigrants, disillusionment with American materialism and a lack of promising employment or financial prospects. However, they are not necessarily returning to Poland, but seeking work in other European countries like Ireland, the United Kingdom, or Sweden. According to the report, the destination of these Polish immigrants indicates a delayed demographic impact of Poland’s admission into the European Union.
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Stephen Lavin on Mar 13, 2007 at 03:40:50 said:
Dear Sir
If the Polish are leaving the States for a good life in UK,Ireland etc they will find the influx of Poles has driven down wages to subsistence levels.To live and work in London Poles are renting properties and overcrowding them due to the high rents.Unemployment is rising and many Poles are returning to Poland as wages rise due to the lack of skilled workers in the construction industry.
London has a problem with Poles sleeping rough on the streets as they are not entitled to benefits as they are EU migrants.
The only people benefiting are employers who praise the Polish immigration as a cheap labour force.
Yours
S.Lavin
Chris on Feb 06, 2007 at 08:45:35 said:
A week ago I saw some street advertising:
Black male with new jacket in American flag colors (some company) and comment: 100% American style.
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So if you white you are 99% American? 55% ?
Joseph on Feb 03, 2007 at 01:37:38 said:
Polish Immigrants leaving for Europe..I hope my Polish family in Poland reads this article ...They all think I have it easy here..little do they know or even believe i work 60 plus hours a week to have the better life...They think just because you work here you instantly have a good life..Polish Immigrants going to europe...Grass in not greener on the other side for any immigrant ..gona be tough!!!!
Mo Green on Jan 31, 2007 at 21:32:38 said:
No fool. The problem is that there are no jobs left for the Poles to take in order to establish a comfortable life for yourself. Nowadays the average lower-middle-class American can't pay for college any more with money saved from a summer job and with a little help from mom or dad and grandma.
Those days are over. When my grandparents came here in the 50s from Europe there was work aplenty. The economy was actually growing and there was plenty of work at America's robust manufacturing industry.
Now that's gone and in places like Vietnam and China. Now, you have to go to school for 5 years of very hard and technical training at a university just to attain the same level of pay your grandparents had in the 50s in a job that adjusted for inflation pays about the same or less. And most of the time you have to take out loans and go into debt for the next decade paying those off before you can even start to live the life you always wanted. And by that time health problems rear their dirty nasty heads up. Backs give out. Heart disease, stroke, and cancer rates go up. All at the time you were supposed to be enjoying your money.
The American experiment has failed.
margaret on Jan 28, 2007 at 15:06:26 said:
Poles are white. American law requires that american employers follow the discriminatory policy of affirmative action, aka no whites may be hired.
-->Whites are effectively banned from government jobs, education and quais government jobs such as hospitals. We have several gestapo agencies such as the EEOC, civil rights division of the department of justice and state fair employment practices commissions, all monitoring employers to see that they hire anything and every thing but whites.
It is just as well for the poles that they are learning this early. They can leave and move to countries where they won't be discriminated against because they are white.