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150-Year Green Card Wait for Indian Immigrants With Advanced Degrees

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Re: 150-Year Green Card Wait for Indian Immigrants With Advanced Degrees

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This is one of the enormous penalties we as a nation have to pay because neither of our political parties actually wants to solve the illegal immigration issue.

Republicans get to use ‘illegal immigrants taking jobs’ as a stick to beat democrats with, and progressives use cries of racism to rally support amongst Latino voters.

Meanwhile anyone who espouses common sense ideas such as reforming our immigration policy gets called a racist and ‘anti-immigrant’.

Re: 150-Year Green Card Wait for Indian Immigrants With Advanced Degrees

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Is it really discrimination if the system is already known to have a per-country limit, and yet more and more people from that country continue to file for Green Cards? Indians who come to the US these days know for a fact there is a 10+ year wait for a Green Card, so they're the ones taking their chances. If they scream discrimination, I call BS on that.

It sucks that the system is the way it is, and I think a point-based system like Canada is far more efficient, but it's not discrimination. If there are already known rules, and one particular country comes in an adds a massive amount of applications, you can't turn around and yell discrimination.

Re: 150-Year Green Card Wait for Indian Immigrants With Advanced Degrees

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Is it really discrimination if the system is already known to have a per-country limit, and yet more and more people from that country continue to file for Green Cards? Indians who come to the US these days know for a fact there is a 10+ year wait for a Green Card, so they're the ones taking their chances. If they scream discrimination, I call BS on that. It sucks that the system is the way it is, and I think a point…

Is it really discrimination if the system has separate water fountains for whites and coloreds?

It sucks that the system is the way it is, and I think having the same water fountains for everyone is far more efficient.

(There is a term for when the system discriminates. It's called... you guessed it, systemic discrimination.)

Re: 150-Year Green Card Wait for Indian Immigrants With Advanced Degrees

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This is one of the enormous penalties we as a nation have to pay because neither of our political parties actually wants to solve the illegal immigration issue. Republicans get to use ‘illegal immigrants taking jobs’ as a stick to beat democrats with, and progressives use cries of racism to rally support amongst Latino voters. Meanwhile anyone who espouses common sense ideas such as reforming our immigration policy g…

Could you explain the connection you see between illegal-immigration policies and legal-immigration policies?

Re: 150-Year Green Card Wait for Indian Immigrants With Advanced Degrees

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I am thinking about coming aboard this particular boat i.e come to the USA. What would you do if you were me ?

Canada

European Union Blue Card. Just consider the healthcare mess in the US.
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