"Actually, they're not. We have a very generous policy for ME immigrants."
Our immigration policy, as bad as it is, does tend to be employment and skills based. So the people coming here legally tend not to be the dregs of the earth. Even the illegals have to go through a fair amount- fly over to Mexico, hire a coyote, etc. Plus, those who just want to collect welfare would obviously try to emigrate to Europe, not here.
Well, in the case of ME immigrants, it's not skills based. We have a lousy policy for both European (non Muslim) and Mexican immigrants, since we do not accept educated people because they might compete with Americans. I have known educated Mexicans who applied for visas and were turned down specifically because they were too educated.
Most Mexicans actually want to work here and not collect welfare. They come from such a dysfunctional country that it provides them with no work and a very meagre income. The only way you make money in Mexico is by being born to it - or by being a government employee. Typical of Socialism. But neither educated nor non-educated Mexicans can get legitimate entry visas. In addition, we accept very, very few educated ethnic Europeans and virtually no Brits, relatively speaking.
However, American universities have been raking in the bucks by offering courses to foreign students and often offering them English classes first. A lot of the students now appear to be from the Middle East. As it says in the article, we cut back on ME students after 9/11, but now we're back up again.
I don't care about Mexico - that's a separate problem. Keep the Muslims out, or we're in big trouble.