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20:09. </div> <div class="content"><p><img class="" alt="" align="left" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20090206201003im_/http://siteresources.worldbank.org/INTPROSPECTS/Images/334933-1173798973801/3552714-1218142105099/ishmail.jpg"/>You can only see Ismail’s profile in the BMW he is driving on a desert highway stretching from Doha to Dukhan. He speaks French. I don't. So he says, in English, pointing to the beautiful homes along the way, "those are the new houses of the big people from Doha."</p> <p>The car radio is tuned to QBS Country, a station that plays American country music on Qatar Broadcasting Service. "Is there any Qatari music on the radio?" I ask. Ismail fiddles with controls, but after a while, QBS Country is back on. The desert wind hums and whistles as Alan Jackson sings, "<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090206201003/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpPPyHqWznQ">Don't rock the jukebox....</a>"</p> <p>"How long have you lived here, Ismail?"</p> <p>"Eighteen months," says Ismail. 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As soon as Obama was projected to be the next president of the United States of America, countless migrant mothers (I know one!) patted their children and said, with tears in the eyes, "You too have a chance to be the president of this great country!" Seems to me that overnight America has become more inviting to the immigrants. Has it? Will Obama follow through with his campaign promise, or will he change his stance? Should he? What would that mean from a development point of view?</p> <p>On <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090206201003/http://www.barackobama.com/issues/immigration/#remove-incentives">their website</a>, Barack Obama and Joe Biden's Plan on immigration states the following:</p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090206201003/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/content/can-they-implications-of-obama-victory-for-migration-and-development" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="node_read_more">READ MORE >></a></div> </div> <div id="linx"> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="links"><ul class="links inline"><li class="first blog_usernames_blog"><a href="/web/20090206201003/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/blogs/dilip" title="Read Dilip's latest blog entries." class="blog_usernames_blog">Dilip's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_comments"><a 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They are here in Vienna, far away from their ancestral land, apparently to plead for the return of Montezuma's feather crown that was <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20090206201003/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F07E7D61F39F932A35755C0A9639C8B63">allegedly brought to Austria a few centuries ago</a>.</p> </div> <div id="rmore2"> <div class="rmore"><a href="/web/20090206201003/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/content/the-little-aztec-girl-in-vienna" title="Read the rest of this posting." class="node_read_more">READ MORE >></a></div> </div> <div id="linx"> <div id="linksbox"> <div class="links"><ul class="links inline"><li class="first blog_usernames_blog"><a href="/web/20090206201003/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/blogs/dilip" title="Read Dilip's latest blog entries." class="blog_usernames_blog">Dilip's blog</a></li> <li class="comment_add"><a href="/web/20090206201003/http://peoplemove.worldbank.org/en/comment/reply/99#comment-form" title="Add a new comment 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