Posted on 12/28/2024 4:54:25 PM PST by mbrfl
In the United States, there are a wide variety of visas – both immigrant and nonimmigrant – that foreign nationals can apply for to enter the country. Most categories of visas, apart from tourist visas, have a maximum number that can be issued each fiscal year. This is referred to as a visa or immigration “cap.”
Although there are roughly a million immigrant visas issued each year and hundreds of thousands of nonimmigrant visas, the immigration cap system has resulted in long wait times for those attempting to come to the U.S.
Where did the Immigration Cap Come From? Today, most visa categories to the U.S. are capped. For example, there are 65,000 H-1B visas in the “regular cap” available each fiscal year for those who want to temporarily enter the U.S. to work in a specialty occupation. The current U.S immigration system, which emphasizes visas for family and employment categories, is fairly new. Until the 1965, it was national origin that was capped, meaning that the U.S. would only issue a certain number of visas to foreign nationals from each country. Each country had a different maximum number, but once that number was reached, no more people from that country would generally issued a visa that year. As such, this system was called the “national origin quota system.”
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My opinion is that we should probably go back to individual quotas for each country and within those quotas, priority should be given to factors such as ability to support one's self, education, pro-America attitude, and all around good character. Countries like China that abuse these privileges should see them curtailed.
Here is my new immigration limit, ZERO!
We are overwhelmed with illegals.
So ZERO of anyone allowed in for at least the next ten years.
Once legal immigration resumes we set a quota for each country that includes ALL forms of immigration Students, H1B, sponsored, and any other.
For EVERY illegal found here from any county we deduct TEN legal slots.
Do the same with foreign aid. For every illegal they lose $XXX.
Lastly, the feculent Kennedy amendment that discriminates against white applicants has to be rescinded.
High Tech in America has instituted its own plantation system and imports millions of indentured servants from abroad. This drives down American wages as well in increasing their costs. It needs to end now.
I’m definitely in favor of reducing legal immigration levels across the board - at least for the near future. As far as encouraging the best and the brightest to come here while preventing the mis-use of H-1B visas to lower wages, the vast majority of H-1B visas should be given to citizens of countries that enjoy a similar standard of living to ours. Offering them to people from countries who are grateful to come here for salaries at a fraction of the going rate makes no sense.
America filled up decades ago, we don’t need an endless supply of foreigners taking us to 280 million, 340 million (current), 500 million, 780 million, 1.2 billion, and on and on, and all of them affirmative action people no less.
By the way, already we can ask, just what is our culture? What is our national identity? Do we have a Christian identity anymore? the more bastardized we become it is even getting to where we don’t have a foreign policy because we have so many people from country “X”, we have already become a 2 language nation and that only took a few decades.
Correction, press one for English started about 8 or 10 years after the 1965 immigration law that we live under now.
Tech Boys want it increased. One of them that trump hired wants no cap on H1b.
Meanwhile,
https://cis.org/Miano/Major-H1B-Employer-Found-Discriminate-against-NonIndians
A jury in California has found that the H-1B body shop Cognizant had a pattern and practice of discrimination against non-South Asian and non-Indian workers. This was a class action where the class consisted of roughly 2,000 American workers. The case now enters a second phase where the judge must determine if there was disparate impact on the plaintiffs.
Countries which share our high standard of living should be given immigration priority. This will de-incentivize Big Tech from hiring foreign workers as a way of saving on labor. If the Tech Bosses are really only interested in hiring the best and the brightest, they should have no problem with that.
Isn’t India a nation that is refusing to repatriate their illegals?
That would not surprise me but I do not know.
I have an answer for that.
Their illegals can sneak back in just as they snuck out.
Or be deported to some other utopia, such as Liberia or Ethiopia.
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