Reflect on how money and bills of credit works in an Imperium where it is possible to jump ahead of the account reconciliation news.
Many opportunities for variants of 'The wire scam' if you can get the latest x-boat news ahead of your mark.

And I'm guessing the US government is Constantinople in this metaphor

Apparently so, www.seek.com.au/special-educ...

When you think about it the immigration policy of any nation is institutionalised discrimination with the aim of selecting a cohort of migrants to further a set of (usually Ill defined) national social objectives.
Even when it's done well it's awful and arbitrary to the migrant.

You're probably better off asking someone who works in immigration policy.
If I were a guessing person I suspect it might have something to do with the ratio of working years to retirement years.

It gets interesting if you are over 45 www.visaustralia.com/visa-options...

As an Australian I'd encourage all HR departments to a produce "how to translate your US skills and experience into Australian" and get poaching.

I get the feeling like it's the start of a school social, everyone sitting around the edges not wanting to be the dork who starts dancing first.
I'm prepared to be that dork if it gets the party started.

Hey I'm not here to tell you where you should put your 'D',

And to imagine they picked the title 'president' to make it seem small and insignificant. A generation of using Executive Orders instead of legislation has destroyed the notion of seperation of powers

Well, timing is a factor. The 'United States-ians' who assume their national politics is word politics are losing their bundle right now as a bad actor shows them exactly how far they've strayed from the Westminster system.