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Re:I spent the last 15 years trying to become an American an... by tlb on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @11:40AM (#9765382)
There's no strong lobby against more high-skilled immigration. But as sometimes happens in US politics, the uncontroversial reform is held hostage to the controversial one.

In particular, lobbying groups for and against having an official status for the millions of currently undocumented Mexicans in the US have opposed any immigration bill that doesn't include what they want.

Lawmaking does not allow cherry-picking bugfixes.

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Re:I spent the last 15 years trying to become an American an... by murbard2 on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @12:41PM (#9765804)
Very interesting take, thanks! That is probably what's going on. I wonder what other examples there are of such policies.
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Re:I spent the last 15 years trying to become an American an... by yellowapple on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @08:08PM (#9768704)
> Lawmaking does not allow cherry-picking bugfixes.

It ought to.

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