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To: OddLane

Last time I checked it was a bunch of white liberals born in America and a bunch of black liberals also born in America who voted in your communist president.

Legal immigrants on the other hand, especially Asians and South Asians (like myself - legal immigrant in Canada) have been building up businesses and working, again unlike native born Americans who are looking for freebies.

...think you need to look a little closer to home for the problem than blaming legal immigrants, generally the ones who don’t bother to just run across the border actually have something to offer back to the country.


8 posted on 06/11/2012 6:40:10 PM PDT by battousai (Conservatives are racist? YES, I hate stupid white liberals.)
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To: battousai
Among others.

There are legal immigrants that contribute to this country, but the notion that our immigration policy is designed to maximize the number of these immigrants is preposterous.

The complete opposite is the case.

Of the 1.1 million green cards issued in a typical year, the United States awards 85 percent to family and humanitarian immigrants and only 15 percent to employment-based, highly skilled immigrants.

Of these 15 percent, half go to the workers' spouses and children. Among OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) nations, no other nation puts such a low priority on work-based immigration.

In other words, less than eight percent of legal immigrants come here for the express purpose of working.

Or to put it another way, ninety percent of them do not.

15 posted on 06/11/2012 9:50:16 PM PDT by OddLane (If Lionel Hutz and Guy Smiley had a lovechild together, his name would be "Mitt Romney." -KAJ)
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