Currently, the US immigration policies are skewed to accept unskilled immigrants. Read about the difficulties with the H1 visas and the near impossibility for s

Currently, the US immigration policies are skewed to accept unskilled immigrants. Read about the difficulties with the H1 visas and the near impossibility for skilled workers to get a green card. Immigration could be an amazing source of skilled labor, if the USA played it's cards right. Historically, it was one. Sure, many immigrant families often are more motivated, but many of the ones that the process are skewed towards still come with few marketable skills, and, unfortunately, poverty tends to breed poverty. It's harder to pull yourself out of the bottom of the heap.