re: #124 lostlakehiker

Wouldn’t it be simpler to have a “law of return” that says that anyone, anywhere, who doesn’t have a criminal record, may come to the U.S. and be granted citizenship? Why mess around with any sort of brakes on immigration? This policy cuts to the chase.

They’re paying %10-15k apiece to the coyotes, might as well have them pay us instead.

But this “back of the line” crap is just that, crap. The country of origin immigration quotas are, if not deliberately racist, then just geographically absurd. Mexico gets 25000 a year. There’s a 15 year backlog, they’re just now starting to process the 1996 applications. NAFTA should earn them much looser standards (and larger numbers by a couple degrees of magnitude) than we give to EU persons.