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probably problematic but a stereotype that I've developed after a few years of working in occupational health is that recent immigrants will almost always have negative drug tests, all vaccinations up to date, and exhaustive, meticulously organized documentation of any question you could think to ask

not because they're inherently more conscientious or whatever, more because there's a brutal survivorship bias for an immigrant to get to where they're working anywhere above-board enough to use an occupational health clinic

but after a while you do start thinking "oh, this guy has a heavy accent and presented a non-citizen ID? he's going to be no trouble at all"


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in reply to @pervocracy's post:

Speaking as someone who's gone through the immigrant experience with medical care ... it probably SHOULD have pushed me towards being a lot more fastidious about keeping my own records and pushing hard. I can see it being the case that you HAVE to do that shit in order to get any care at all, because anything less than dropping the book on a doctor is going to get you ignored.

When you can be deported for a minor conviction, sometimes even a traffic violation, it uh... Does some things.

For me the two good things about finally becoming a citizen after 20 years were 1) being able to vote, and 2) no longer being easy to deport. And not necessarily in that order.