Readers sound off on work visas, the Tyre Nichols videos and MetroNorth lines

Summit, N.J.: Your editorial “Shown the door” (Jan. 24) is totally nonsensical. It claims that workers on immigrant visas have to leave the country when they lose their jobs. This is entirely false. Workers on immigrant visas do not lose their ability to remain in the country when they lose their jobs.

Another error is that the editorial claims H-1B visas are immigrant visas. H-1B visas are explicitly nonimmigrant visas, just like tourist visas. H-1B workers are supposed to be filling jobs temporarily that could not be filled by U.S. workers. When the jobs for a nonimmigrant worker go away, the entire purpose for the alien’s stay in the United States goes away as well.

It is also puzzling why the Daily News raises comparisons with Canada when a Canadian system would be politically unacceptable in the United States. The Canadian system generally requires a showing that a Canadian is not available in order to get a work visa. U.S. businesses fought to the mat to make it legal to replace Americans with cheap foreign labor on H-1B nonimmigrant visas. The Canadian system is primarily employment-based. The U.S. system is primarily family-based. In the Canadian system, the immigrant worker drives the employment process while in the American version, the employer drives the system to keep the foreign workers bound to them. American business lobbyists would derail any attempt to change that aspect of the system. John Miano

Bronx: To Voicer Timothy Sullivan: Just what makes the U.S.A. the greatest country in the world? Give me facts. W. Twirley

Hallandale Beach, Fla.: I extend my heartfelt condolences to the family of Tyre Nichols and the entire Memphis community. Tyre’s family deserves a swift, full and transparent investigation into his death. As Americans grieve, the Department of Justice conducts its investigation and state authorities continue their work, I join Tyre’s family in calling for peaceful protest. Outrage is understandable, but violence is never acceptable. Violence is destructive and against the law. It has no place in peaceful protests seeking justice. Public trust is the foundation of public safety and there are still too many places in America today where the bonds of trust are frayed or broken. Tyre’s death is a painful reminder that we must do more to ensure that our criminal justice system lives up to the promise of fair and impartial justice, equal treatment and dignity for all. Paul Bacon

Bronx: My heart feels deeply for Tyre Nichols’ mother and his family. May he rest in peace. Ralph Canzone

Camden, N.J.: Justice for Tyre Nichols might be better served by not seeking justice at all. Haven’t we learned that by now? It is “institutionalized police culture,” Ben Crump stated. Wayne E. Williams

Whitestone: Why, oh why, did the police department of Memphis have to release the deadly videos of the beating of Tyre Nichols that caused him to die? People observing their TVs had to be terribly sickened while watching this almost unbelievable horror! Leonore Brooks

Brooklyn: While I cannot bring myself to watch that video, a description in the press brought me to tears. I’m furious at these five monsters, any one of whom could have stopped this assault. These five (now former) Memphis police officers committed a gang-style street murder of Tyre Nichols. Nothing he did nor could have done justifies a single punch or kick or any of the torture they carried out on him. As his mother noted, this was a five-against-one assault. These five human beings are vicious, irredeemable souls. I sincerely do not know what is to become of our country when we have men and women who are capable of this kind of cruelty. Nichols could have been their brother or friend. It is terrifying that Tennessee will spend good money to give these five evil men a fair trial when the facts speak for themselves. It’s unbearable to know how he suffered. Diane Pagen

Manhattan: Lord Acton said, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Black police officers in Black communities have great power, and with this comes the temptation of great corruption. Denzel Washington won a well-deserved Oscar for portraying this in the movie “Training Day.” Whatever we do to perpetrators, the justice system or laws, we also need to recognize the pervasiveness of evil. Satan is always there trying to corrupt presidents and police officers. We need God’s help to fight Satan. John Stout

Sunnyside: I couldn’t believe it when Voicer Janice Amato made the false accusation that “Brown cops ‘overcompensate’ to show their white brothers in the Blue Klux Klan that they hate them Brown folks, too.” Has she forgotten the ultimate sacrifices that were made by Wilbert Mora, Jason Rivera, Daniel Enchautegui and Rafael Ramos (who was assassinated with his Asian partner Wenjian Liu)? She has also obviously forgotten the ultimate sacrifices made by African-American police officers like Anthony McLean, Gregory Foster, Waverly Jones, Waverly Brown, Rodney Andrews and James Nemorin? The assassinations of the aforementioned officers should remind all of us that Brown, Black and blue lives all matter very much. John Francis Fox

Ridgewood, N.J.: I had to wonder what use of facial recognition software is legal. The answer appears to be after the crime is committed. However, even that must be visually verified by a human being. Existing software has difficulty with Black and Asian-Americans. For a private enterprise to use facial recognition software is not illegal. How they use it may be illegal. Public venues are exactly that — public. Restricting entry due to association (employment) is extremely questionable. The MSG owner’s actions may or may not be illegal but they are definitely immoral. Peter J. Peirano

Cornwall, N.Y.: Rumor has it that the bums in the City Council designed the new police cars to have very firm and comfy back seats, and the seats are heated. We don’t want our criminals to feel uncomfortable. Raymond Grosskopf

Tomkins Cove, N.Y.: Now that the Grand Central Madison boondoggle is finally open, the MTA, contractors and unions can begin phase two of the fleecing of taxpayers: bringing Metro-North trains of the Harlem and New Haven lines into Penn Station with the building of four new stations in the Bronx. While it could be beneficial, how come there is no talk of the Hudson line trains into Penn? Amtrak out of Penn Station shares the tracks of the Hudson line after crossing the Spuyten Duyvil Railroad Bridge where the Hudson and Harlem rivers meet. Is this too simple and easy, or is there no room for corruption and theft without massive infrastructure projects to featherbed? Doug Slotolowicz

Oceanside, L.I.: To Voicer Paul Keely: Who are the bad guys you mention? Have you been to the city recently, and on the subway? Do you not see the pictures in papers like the Daily News showing people lying in the doorways, in tents, and homeless people relieving themselves in public on the sidewalks? The druggies shooting up in public, discarding used needles where they used them? Is this the city that has come back to life? I doubt it. You are drinking too much Kool-Aid. Perhaps if you watched more Fox News, you would try to help clean up the city. New Jersey is not too far behind New York City, so maybe you have some homework to do. John F. Rossano

Brooklyn: As a New York native and animal lover, I’d like to thank you for publishing stories about the Bronx Zoo elephants. Perhaps the more people see, read and understand the tragedy of depriving these elephants of satisfying lives as elephants, the public outcry will be too powerful to ignore. It is heartbreaking that this zoo continues to violate these animals daily for years on end. Valerie Bishop