These kinds of visas will be the "baby thrown out with the bathwater" if people don't calm down and learn all they can about the current immigration legislation. We need to let the best and brightest come here, but they're bound to get lumped in with farm workers because the debate is being spun out of control. "By whom?" is a very relevant question.
There is way too much emotion in this debate, and now the focus is shifting to the behaviour of children in junior and high schools. I'd like to know who organized these children so well, and where did they get flags and printed banners in such short order? It is like the "cartoon Muslims" who pulled regulation Danish flags out of thin air...somebody or some entity wants mayhem in the streets of the U.S. and we shouldn't give it to them.
There is a very strong lobby on behalf of "undocumented workers," which includes not only Hispanic groups, but also the US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups.
The typical Mexican worker earns one-tenth his American counterpart, and numerous American businesses are willing to hire cheap, compliant labor from abroad; such businesses are seldom punished because our country lacks a viable system to verify new hires' work eligibility. In addition, communities of recently arrived legal immigrants help create immigration networks used by illegal aliens and serve as incubators for illegal immigration, providing jobs, housing, and entree to America for illegal-alien relatives and fellow countrymen.
Increasing legal immigration will not lessen or stem the flow of illegal immigrants, most of whom couldn't qualify as legal immigrants.