Re: Call in to oppose immigration changes preventing sponsorship of parents/siblings
^^ i don't mind skilled workers coming here to work
but they are guest workers and once their work is done they should leave
they shouldn't be loop holes which allows them to settle and bring in their families and start sponsoring their relatives who then sponsor relatives and start a never ending immigration chain
There are plenty of guest workers who are here temporarily, all the tech coolies from India that show up on outsourced deals with Tata or Infosys can not stay in the country, thats part of the deal. Now is it fair to have them living seperate from their spouse and kids for no reason.
And as far as skilled labour immigration goes, there is a need, and there will be a bigger need as the baby boomers start retiring. The unskilled illegal mexican labour can only do so much. So skilled labour is needed not to just come in temporarily but to settle here and contribute towards the growth and innovation that keeps the economy going. This is different than canada where you are, which has all kinds of people that came in thorugh assylum and all, and the open immigration did not help either.
There is a resource crunch, and a bigger resoure crunch coming, and your preferred western european immigrants may be in shorter supply than before because those countries are facing and will be increasingly facing resource crunch.
Thus to keep the economic engine going skilled resources will be needed and the competition for them will only intensify. Regions from whcih skilled folks were coming in are either seeing a boom of their own where their motivation for coming to US is getting diminished so the pool of skileld ppl who want to move gets smaller (e.g. china and India) or economies that are on the verge of breakthrough e.g. Pakistan.
So with a need for skileld resurces, decreasing supply, and increased competition. Such short sighted laws do nothing but help W shoot US in the foot. All while beding over and bending over backward to appease the illegal mexican population by making their illegal stay a legal one without a system of checks and balances to see what kind of hoods and criminals have snuck in along with the decent folks.
Its akin to the mullahs in Pakistan breaking cds and ripping posters. easy highly visible shyt, which does nothing really.
Laws like these do nothing but help US shoot itself in the foot.