From the article: "Let's start by increasing the number of permanent resident visas available for the 1 million engineers, scientists, doctors, and researchers

From the article: "Let's start by increasing the number of permanent resident visas available for the 1 million engineers, scientists, doctors, and researchers and their families who are in the U.S. legally but trapped in immigration limbo." Amen to that brother. But myself being someone in that limbo for the last eight years, I dont have much hopes for it. And this is not a Silicon valley story either. I have about 25,000 people ahead of me in the queue. And each year the queue moves in a snails pace. In this pace, I should have it by the time my two year old son graduates. And then I will create the next Google. (I am kidding. Being an entrepreneur means overcoming these, and I am committed to that) And we are talking only about 750,000 visas currently in adjudication. Just under a million green cards. And at the very least I believe, it can create two million jobs. Nothing is being done because "1 million engineers, scientists, doctors, and researchers and their families" are not a lethal voting bloc. They lack a voice. I empathize with people like me. As I do with Americans who have lost their jobs, and the families of illegal immigrants who live in the society's shadows. If there were easy answers to this solution, we would have found it by now. And politicians prefer solutions that are easy to explain to their constituents. We are so used to soundbites now that anything more complex than a monosyllable evokes a strong abhorrent response.