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.
I'm not sure we don't agree. Your points: not because of unreasonably high standards, and Our immigration policy should limit the number we allow to come here, and we have every right to be selective
I agree with however, 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. I don't agree with -- we would push away a brilliant Phd who can help our economy and replace her with the cousin of a previous immigrant who may live off welfare. That I see as a problem. Getting citizenship is now done by lottery, can you believe it? It should be simpler for qualified people who will help the US economy and will fit in with our ethos. The other way doesn't work right now -- we have many brilliant folks from Asia and India who get fed up of waitign and have gone back home and set up Industries that are challenging America's
Where would the US have been if it tossed out Fermi, Einstein, von Braun etc.?