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The White House response is worth a quick read (PDF --- http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/112/saphr6429r_20121128.pdf http://www
by sharkweek 14y ago
The White House response is worth a quick read (PDF --- http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/112/saphr6429r_20121128.pdf http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislativ...).
I spent the majority of my undergrad studying immigration policy, and I can sympathize with the WH's point that chipping away at immigration reform will only complicate broader reforms that eventually need to happen. The bill as written sounds a little unfair as it removes thousands of diversity visas and allows the educated a quick jump to the front of the line.
I understand economically why this would be desirable, but it isn't true reform.
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- sharkweek 14y agoNo, I'm saying the bill needs to be rewritten to not cannibalize the diversity visas. We need both high skill and low skill labor in massive quantities; and as a country, we're dancing around a ridiculously broken immigration system.
- onetwothreefour 14y agoThe assumption that the DV lottery only brings in low skill labor is both insulting and wrong.
- sharkweek 14y agoYour comment seems a little obtuse. My argument didn't make that assumption. A lottery is random; ideally providing a diverse selection of people across all skill, education and economic levels
- icebraining 14y agoActually, the implicit assumption is that "only DV lottery brings in low skill labor", not that "DV lottery only brings in low skill labor".