Re:I'm Peter Roberts, immigration attorney who does work for...
by bubblethink on Saturday July 29, 2023 @04:51AM
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US immigration is broken beyond repair. Hard to summarize all the issues in an HN comment, but you may find some of Cato's work on this relevant (e.g., https://www.cato.org/policy-analysis/why-legal-immigration-n...).
Briefly, US immigration has little to no concept of merit. The simple (in theory but hard legislatively) fixes are to make it a lot more like a points based system that favours a combination of skill/education/wages instead of race or country of origin and on the worker rights front removes all dependence on the employer for immigration.
Also, how does US immigration compare to other countries, such as the UK, Canada, or Germany? Is it easier to immigrate or harder?