[tcostell]

I don't see anything wrong with increased legal immigration so long as the people coming here are willing to work and take care of themselves. It's only when they break the law, or want to spend my money that I have a problem with them.

[OpusatFR]

Read the article. It is unskilled people that will have priority, not skilled.

Big expansion of the welfare system in this bill.

[babygene]

"I don't see anything wrong with increased legal immigration so long as the people coming here are willing to work and take care of themselves."

It's next to impossible for someone who is uneducated (and presumably doesn't speak English) to take care of themselves. They can't make enough to pay for the services they use... The taxpayer will have to pick up the difference.

[kabar]

We can't handle the present level of legal immigration, now they are talking about doubling it.

The backlog has been going on for years at the INS (now the USCIS). It has gotten better, then worse, in cycles over the years. 2002 was one of the worst years, when additional security checks were required for some applications.

Employment-based immigrants and citizenship applicants will wait one to two years and more. Some people haven't seen their spouses, children or parents for years. There are family members of green card holders who have been waiting for 17 years.

The USCIS receives approximately 6 million applications each year. USCIS backlog at the end of FY 2003 (September 2002) was 3.7 million cases, however, the backlog since then has been reduced by 212,000.

[Paulus Invictus]

Wake up! They have already broken the law by coming here illegally and many others are in our jails for even worse crimes. Have you been asleep for the past ten years?