09-02-2023, 05:00 PM
(09-02-2023, 12:12 PM)Mike M (the other one) Wrote: That's not it, the problem is we want educated workers.
The majority of those that want to come here simply don't qualify for that status. So they use Asylee, Refugee status to get in (or send minors unaccompanied by adults).
That's a couple of the ways you can come here.
The one where you are talking 20 years? that's if a LPR applies to bring a child or daughter (unmarried and over 18) to the US.
If/Once they become a USC that time is shortened alot (3-4 years). So 8-9 years, so have to wait 5 (4 if married to USC) to become a USC then apply and you will be moved to the front of the line over the LPRs (Legal Perm Residents).
And yes, Mexico has a very high wait time simply because they are our poverty stricken neighbor.
sure we want educated workers...but in many cases, those are the ones displacing Americans from jobs, especially in technology. Look at where so many of the illegal immigrants work...they are filling jobs that others don't want. Farm work, meat packing, entry-level service industry jobs (housekeepers, cooks, dishwashers, landscapers) They work loading docks and construction. The jobs these people fill will become painfully obvious if Republicans get their wish to "deport them all" There are millions of job openings in these areas. There are very few real penalties for employers who hire illegal immirants. Fixing that is all part and parcel in fixing the entire immigration system
This country is in desperate need of unskilled labor which will become scarcer as our population ages. Fixing the legal immigration system allows these unskilled laborers to become part of the legitimate work force
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