Waiting List For Legal Immigrants Surges to 4.4 Million

[Chef Ramsay]

According to a blog post written on the list by policy expert Jessica Vaughan, of the Center for Immigration Studies, unlike illegals slipping over the border, many of those on the wait list have been there for up to 13 years or more as they go through the proper process to enter the country.

Unlike with illegals, the government regulates who can come into the country legally.

"The waiting lists are needed because of annual limits on the number of immigrants that can be admitted in certain family and employment categories, and because of caps on the number who can come from each country," she wrote.

The issue of letting more legal immigrants in is a key one for Washington as it grapples with what to do about the 12 million illegals already here.

"The existence of this massive waiting list of eligible applicants for family immigrant visas and green cards raises important questions for policymakers," wrote Vaughan.

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/waiting-list-for-legal-immigrants-surges-to-4.4-million/article/2563279

[panju1]

The waiting lists are needed because of annual limits on the number of immigrants that can be admitted in certain family and employment categories, and because of caps on the number who can come from each country,

More than a quarter of the people in this list are Mexicans. It might be time to revisit the cap on the number of people who can be admitted from Mexico.

[TheButterZone]

Refund legal immigration fees/reimburse lawyers' fees
Repeal immigration law (which is nothing more than a cash grab for the .gov and lawyer employment guarantee)

In that order.

[bryant.coleman]

This is the height of stupidity. Legal immigrants, most of whom are likely to be highly educated and likely to contribute more taxes than the benefits they receive are discouraged, while illegal immigrants (most of whom lack basic education) are encouraged. This will put a huge strain in the resources and it will be evident in the next few decades.

[Wilikon]

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/census-record-51-million-immigrants-in-8-years-will-account-for-82-of-u.s.-growth/article/2563463

Cloward–Piven strategy


The Cloward–Piven strategy is a political strategy outlined in 1966 by American sociologists and political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven that called for overloading the U.S. public welfare system in order to precipitate a crisis that would lead to a replacement of the welfare system with a national system of "a guaranteed annual income and thus an end to poverty"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloward%E2%80%93Piven_strategy