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.