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Immigrants become permanent residents without any interim visas (like the H-Visa). Visas are issued only to temporary visitors.
"Skill-Based Immigration" allows for spouses and minor children of US Citizens or LPR's only. It is determined by a weighted merit system based on education and work experience, much like a job interview.
"Family-Based Immigration" allows the same family for LPR's, but also extended family including siblings, parents of adult children, and grandparents of US Citizens. It allows a small number of visas for skilled workers, much like today's US immigration system.
Immigrants become permanent residents without any interim visas (like the H-Visa). Visas are issued only to temporary visitors.
"Skill-Based Immigration" allows for spouses and minor children of US Citizens or LPR's only. It is determined by a weighted merit system based on education and work experience, much like a job interview.
"Family-Based Immigration" allows the same family for LPR's, but also extended family including siblings, parents of adult children, and grandparents of US Citizens. It allows a small number of visas for skilled workers, much like today's US immigration system.
I’d prefer ZERO IMMIGRANTS. This country has let in too many already and we are SO CROWDED!!
Your reply was to Hopelesscause, not me, but that poster chose to answer "neither," which is covered by the option "other" when stating a preference for zero immigration.
This thread is not about WHERE immigrants come from. You can start a poll for that.
Not an immigrant and I want ALL immigration stopped.
Given that you chose a username that is the acronym for white supremacy (Our Race Is Our Nation), your views are not surprising. They fit well with your other posts on C-D. (Note, this is not an attack on you; they are simple factual statements.)
If all immigration were stopped, many employers in states like California would vehemently protest as they need workers and native-born Americans do not want to do that kind of work (like picking produce).
I am more in favor of skills-based than family-based immigration, but I realize that even skills-based is problematic when it is "sold" as being needed because not enough people in the U.S. hold those same skills, when really it is about cutting employer costs by replacing "expensive" American workers with lower-paid foreign workers. Too many lobbyists, too many loopholes.
And I am not an immigrant myself, but my mother is British and immigrated to the U.S. when she married my father, a U.S. serviceman. I have the right to British citizenship through her. My father's side of the family were undoubtedly immigrants too, but many, many generations ago.
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