[proxy_user]

These are people who applied 10-15 years ago, whose number has finally come up. They have obeyed all the laws, rules, and regulations, and have probably sent in their documents two or three times, because the government is always losing them.

[Diogenesis]

Two things are sacrosanct in America under Obama.

ILLEGAL ALIENS and TERRORISTS

THE PENSIONS OF SEIU and the US CONGRESS

[ExpatCanuck]

My family was among the recipients of Green Cards in 2009. We waited over 10 years for them and did everything legally. This info is meaningless without knowing how many of these cards were issued in 2009 were fast tracked for any reason, or without stats from prior years.

[only1percent]

The vast majority of people who get Green Cards are already here legally, in a status which permits employment. They were admitted when Bush was President, or Clinton for that matter, and Obama's administration has essentially no discretion over their converting status.

The statistic to watch is the issuance of new employment-eligible visas -- and, as one would expect in a recession, those numbers are somewhat down.

The most interesting story in immigration from a workforce perspective these days is high-level emigration -- the small but significant increase in foreign workers going back home because of increased relative opportunity (loss of U.S. job opportunity or better prospects at home).

With D.C. and the states in a death race to increase taxes and regulations upon businesses and executives, it's not hard to see why a high-potential Indian or Chinese executive would look long and hard at opportunities at home before he makes a permanent commitment to the U.S.

[NavyCanDo]

Anyone else notice a new trend in “ethnic” restaurants? One of our favorite Chinese restaurants now has a Hispanic cook and even a few on the wait staff. I've heard from others they have noticed the same thing, at Chinese, Italian, and other ethnic restaurants.

[Altura Ct.]

-Mexico…164,920
-China…receiving 64,238
-Philippines…60,029
-India…57,304

More LaRaza members yeah!, good for us! Don’t see any European countries. That God Teddy and company changed that in 1965. What a great way to undermine our culture and destroy our nation.

[montag813]

Bravo to the recipients of these green cards. They played by the rules. Now let’s not insult them and ridicule the work and bureaucratic headaches they put up with for 10-15 years by granting amnesty to those who snuck in and lived illegally for years in this country.

[Danae]

Hey wait, I thought the gubermunt said that things were gettin better?

D’oh.

[AuntB]

“during 2009, they issued 1,130,818 new Green Cards to foreign nationals, allowing them to work legally in this country. “

Someone please tell me how John McCain thinks we need a ‘guest worker’ program????

And this:

The top four recipient nations are as follows:

-Mexico…164,920
-China…receiving 64,238
-Philippines…60,029
-India…57,304

And we keep hearing we don’t allow Mexicans in “legally”?????

[GraceG]

This would be fine if we didn’t already have 30 million “undocumented guest workers” ie. illegal aliens here already.

[Vaduz]

-Mexico…164,920 = construction work
-China…receiving 64,238 = data systems work
-Philippines…60,029 =hospital jobs
-India…57,304 = computers

[mtntop3]

Some of these people, especially from China, Philippines and India, are professionals—physicians, engineers, computer programmers, and other scientific occupations.

They are needed here, for one reason, because of the abysmal lack of attention to, and due respect for, formal education by much of the American populace especially in the sciences.

[wtc911]

My neighbor, who is from Peru, just got her green card...after fifteen years of following the rules. My bet is most of these are the same deal.

[DoughtyOne]

It doesn’t seem to bother any of the nincompoops on this thread, that Mexico just happened to get an allotment of green cards almost equal to the next three nations combined.

This racist b.s. needs to stop.

As for these green cards only going to people who have been waiting in line, you folks need to sit up and smell the suicide capsule. Why do you folks think the number of illegal aliens hasn’t grown since 2000? Any ideas?

It’s because we are legalizing them as fast as we possibly can.

“Hey, my family had a person come over from another nation, so I think you all should be thrilled to have your nation over-run by illegals and a racially jobbed quota system.”

What a bunch of G D fools.

[WOBBLY BOB]

High Immigration Harms Many American Workers

http://www.numbersusa.com/content/learn/issues/american-workers/high-immigration-harms-many-american-wor.html

[HiJinx]

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[Professional Engineer]

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