English Composition I
These days, there are raising concerns about illegal immigrants, there are debates about illegal immigrants should be sent back home. According to Michael Kindlsey,”Matter in America, one of the topic of “What’s the Big Deal About Immigration” mentioned that we are kidding ourselves about immigration. (226-229)] raises some points. What are we actually mad about? “.The article claims that illegal immigrations characterized as “queue-jumping, taking away our jobs, ripping off taxpayers” It is not a clear picture, there are a lot of facts behind the broken immigration system. It is not the illegal immigrant’s fault, why we are blaming them? It is our broken immigration system; which need to be fixed.
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Illegal immigrants indicate that 98 percent would prefer to live and work legally in the United States. The main reason for no “line” for most and very poor people with few skills to stand in and gain permanent U.S. residency. Investment is not an option for the poor people. According to USCIS website, they required the investor to reserved 500,000 to 1 Million in a new business which will maintain 10 full time U.S. workers within 2 years. If these poor people have so much money, why would they want to come to the U.S. some even get visitor visa and upon on arrival and they never return to their countries. Immigration have issue even tracking those …show more content…
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), “the length of time applicants must wait before receiving an immigrant visa or adjusting status depends on the demand for and the supply. The number of visas allocated to each country for each particular preference category” Some countries, not all demands can be satisfied and they considered “oversubscribed,” Immigration also faces backlogs, the main reason for that is due to an imbalance between the supply and demand of immigrant visas.”
“Currently the annual limit for total number of legal immigrants to the United States is 675,000 each year which a maximum of 480,000 are allocated to family-sponsored visas. Even if a prospective immigrant does have the formal requirements to apply for permanent residence, the wait can be everlasting if she or he is applying from countries that are currently oversubscribed.
Only most qualifying professions have no quota for green card limitation where lower-skilled workers is only limited to 5,000 per year. And the annual Diversity Visa program only makes 50,000 green cards for low rates of immigration, excluding people from Mexico, China, the Philippines, India, and other countries with higher levels of immigration to the United States are not eligible. Immigration recently further reduce the quota making families to wait longer than