On parle beaucoup, en ce moment en France, de l’immigration sélective. Notre ami Sarkozy en a fait son cheval de bataille, et se base, pour en démontrer l’efficacité, sur les États-Unis. Il faut dire que, grâce à cette politique, l’Amérique reste une terre d’accueil : ceux qui y rentrent sont les bienvenus et s’intègrent ainsi relativement bien dans la société américaine, car ils servent tous un but précis. Par exemple, 5% de l’économie américaine repose sur les mexicains clandestins; la fuite des cerveaux européens est utile à la recherche américaine; les exilés politiques donnent une bonne image du pays qui les accueille…

Ainsi, pour les demandes de visa, le gouvernement cherche à s’assurer que le candidat ne sera pas une charge ou un risque pour la société, et pose donc tout plein de questions très amusantes. Extraits…

APPLICANTS FOR STATUS AS PERMANENT RESIDENTS MUST ESTABLISH THAT THEY ARE ADMISSIBLE TO THE UNITED STATES. EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW, ALIENS WITHIN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING CLASSES ARE NOT ADMISSIBLE TO THE UNITED STATES, AND ARE THEREFORE INELIGIBLE FOR STATUS AS PERMANENT RESIDENT:

Aliens who have committed, or who have been convicted of, a crime involving moral turpitude (does not include minor traffic violations); aliens who have engaged, in or who intend to engage in, any commercialized sexual activity; aliens who are, or at any time have been, anarchists, or members of, or affiliated with, any Communist or other totalitarian party, including any subdivision or affiliate thereof; aliens who have advocated or taught, either by personal utterance, or by means of any written or printed matter, or through affiliation with an organization, (i) opposition to organized government; (ii) the overthrow of government by force or violence; (iii) the assaulting or killing of government officials because of their official character; (iv) the unlawful destruction of property; (v) sabotage; or (vi) the doctrines of world Communism, or the establishment of a totalitarian dictatorship in the United States; aliens who intend to engage in prejudicial activities or unlawful activities of a subversive nature; aliens who have been convicted of a violation of any law or regulation relating to narcotic drugs or marijuana, or who have been illicit traffickers of narcotic drugs or marijuana; aliens who have been involved in assisting any other aliens to enter the United States in violation of law; aliens who have applied for exemption or discharge from training or service in the Armed Forces of the United States on the ground of alienage, and who have been relieved or discharged from such training or service on that basis.

DO ANY OF THE FOREGOING CLASSES APPLY TO YOU? [ ] YES [ ] NO

ALIENS, IN ADDITION TO ESTABLISHING THAT THEY ARE NOT MEMBERS OF ANY OF THE INADMISSIBLE CLASSES ABOVE, MUST, EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE PROVIDED BY LAW, ALSO ESTABLISH THAT THEY ARE NOT WITHIN ANY OF THE FOLLOWING INADMISSIBLE CLASSES:

Aliens who are mentally retarded, insane, or have suffered one or more attacks of insanity; aliens afflicted with psychopathic personality, sexual deviation, mental defect, narcotic drug addiction, chronic alcoholism or any dangerous contagious disease; aliens who have a physical defect, disease of disability affecting their ability to earn a living; aliens who are paupers, professional beggars or vagrants; aliens who are polygamists, or advocate polygamy; aliens who intend to perform skilled or unskilled labor, and who have not been certified by the Secretary of Labor; aliens likely to become a public charge; aliens who have been excluded from the United States within the past year, or who at any time have been deported from the United States, who have been removed from the United States at Government expense; aliens who have procured, or have attempted to procure, a visa by fraud or misrepresentation; aliens who have departed from, or remained outside, the United States to avoid military service in time of war or national emergency; aliens who are former exchange visitors who are subject to, but have not complied with, the two-year foreign residence requirement.

DO ANY OF THE FOREGOING CLASSES APPLY TO YOU? [ ] YES [ ] NO

On dira ce qu’on voudra, mais dans tout ça, le plus marrant c’est quand même le coup de la polygamie… sans doute ajouté pour éviter que des sales arabes ne se ramènent avec leurs 42 femmes