Immigration Reform for Legals first - Immigration Voice
Immigration Voice announced today its massive phone campaign to US Senators to put Legals First. Aman Kapoor, founder of Immigration Voice, denounced the "grand compromise" plan of the US Senate favoring illegal immigrants over the highly skilled legal immigrants waiting patiently in line.
"The high skilled legal immigration system is broken," said Mr. Kapoor, "The 2007 immigration reform compromise further alienates us in spite of us being here legally. These are the worst set of immigration policies for high skilled immigrants in the civilized world."
The Senators that have crafted the new merit based immigration laws have announced that this model follows the legal immigration pathway developed in Canada and Australia, but the compromises that have been made have deluded the entire system into a cesspool of half baked immigration ideas.
As an example, an agriculture worker applying for a green card can earn 25 points for working 100 days a year for 5 years, while a skilled individual will get 10 points for working the same number of years! Economic contribution by illegal immigrants is recognized by awarding points for property ownership but not for people working legally!
While media has been touting how the new points based immigration laws eliminate the traditional family values based approach of American immigration, an analysis of the bill shows that employment-based petitions were reduced from 140,000 per year to 90,000 per year to "clear the backlog." Family-based categories were limited to 250,000 but now have been increased to 567,000 per year!
In addition, close to 100,000 of these applicants languishing in backlog will be forced to restart the process in the new system. "We have been waiting patiently for the Congress to come together and fashion an immigration bill that comprehensively overhauls the United States immigration system to fix illegal immigration, what the Senate has done is granted amnesty on the backs of highly skilled US educated legal immigrants,"
“The immigration law currently is as complicated as the Tax Code. While the intentions of the Senators might have been good to streamline the immigration process, the current compromise on the Comprehensive Immigration Reform shows the world that high skilled immigrants are not welcome in this great country.”
Immigration Voice (http://www.immigrationvoice.org) is a non-profit national grassroots organization committed to feasible solutions to a broken employment-based green card process. Immigration Voice is advocating for technical changes that will improve the quality of life of several individuals that are stuck in the backlogs/delays, and help the system to work as it was intended.
