What a bunch of clap-trap and not a word about the costs of illegal immigration-- dumbed-down schools, balkanized neighborhoods, crowded emergency rooms, and third-world diseases which were once though eradicated.
So because the demand for visas is around 500,000 and the supply around 5,000, is the author suggesting we are supposed to automatically increase the supply to accomodate the demand? Does anyone but a nimrod doubt that if we did so, the demand would increase to 1, 2 or 10 million annually?
As a soverign country, do we not have the right to pick and choose the sources, quality and, yes, even numbers of our legal immigrants? Does Mexico, with many neighborhoods devoid of working age population, have no obligation to grow its own economy and provide jobs? If so, maybe some of their emmigrants should be shipped to Europe, home of this news rag, where they can displace North African Muslims and other unemployables on that continent.
As for myself, if America needs more immigrants (and I think we do), I'd rather see a few more from places like Korea, the Philippines, India and Taiwan who have shown a demonstrated willingness to assimilate into American society and learn and respect our language and culture and a few less from places which have, with some noteworthy exceptions, simply sought to replace it with the third-world cultures from whence they came.
The 'powers that be' refuse to admit that Visa demand is so high. This would lead to being a measure of how our overall economy is actually doing. If job growth is so much that visa requests are filled as fast as they can be granted it is kind of hard to claim things like 'most jobs lost since Herbert Hoover'.
We have every right to decide as a nation who we let in this country and what they can or cannot do when here. Not to mention the power to tell them to leave at any time.
Mexico indeed needs to grow its own economy. I am all for helping them do so, I am against doing it FOR them.
How about just giving them a fast track North? Canada is only 30 million people or there abouts, I suppose they would be open to millions of immigrants 'looking to do those jobs Canadians won't do'.
Any immigrant that will follow the laws of our nation , including the ones where we decide who can come when and for how long, will melt into society and stop trying to make this country be an extension of their own is fine by me.
It sure seems to me that this nation has lost its way in the area of natural born Americans. It occurs to me that we come last on any list that comes out of our Government.
Spanish is popping up all over around here and my shopping opportunities are drastically lessened as a result. Until such time as Pesos and centavos are our currency, when I see Spanish at the store I simply go elsewhere.