Limiting Work Visas

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Considering the courses of action that you proposed, I lean towards a melding between the third and fourth options. The strongest positions would be limiting the number of work visas to foreign nationals and practicing the laws and constitutional rights granted to American Citizens born to American citizens, not just born in America. Limiting work visas would reconstitute an American work base in the American economy. Providing two forms of practicality to the American workforce. And understanding and practicing that the birth of an American citizen is conditional on two things, born on American soil and they have to be born to an American citizen. Not either

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