[Cronos]

It might very well be in our best interest to extend permanent residency to the best of them, but we should ship the rest back home. Immigration can be very valuable to our country, but only when we are selective, and select wisely.

The problem is that it is not easy for a person to become a legal immigrant to the US. Even if a person is highly-skilled, gives a lot to the community by way of taxes, jobs, etc., it's too difficult.

[untrained skeptic]

It's difficult to become a legal permanent resident. It's difficult to permanently immigrate to the US.

It is also somewhat hard to immigrate here temporarily, not because of unreasonably high standards, but because we limit the numbers of those that can immigrate.

The number of people that want to come here far exceeds the number we allow in legally.

Our immigration policy should limit the number we allow to come here, and we have every right to be selective.

I know a number of people and work with several people who have immigrated here legally. It's not that it is extremely difficult, it's that we allow in far fewer than want to come in and give preferences to family of those already here.

If we had far fewer illegal immigrants, we could absorb more legal immigrants, however we have to fix the illegal immigration problem first before we can raise the number of legal immigrants. We also need to end the stream of people coming here based on anchor babies.

The biggest problems with our legal immigration system derive from our illegal immigration problem.