There are legal immigrants that contribute to this country, but the notion that our immigration policy is designed to maximize the number of these immigrants is preposterous.
The complete opposite is the case.
Of the 1.1 million green cards issued in a typical year, the United States awards 85 percent to family and humanitarian immigrants and only 15 percent to employment-based, highly skilled immigrants.
Of these 15 percent, half go to the workers' spouses and children. Among OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) nations, no other nation puts such a low priority on work-based immigration.
In other words, less than eight percent of legal immigrants come here for the express purpose of working.
Or to put it another way, ninety percent of them do not.
Well I can agree with you on that, immigration needs to be of skilled people useful to the country, Canada is doing that more now and other countries like Australia have been doing it all along, which is why their base of immigrants are usually quite skilled.