President-elect Joe Biden will take office on January 20th. One of the biggest agenda of his committee is to fix the broken immigration system. But would they really fix the broken system?
As we all know that from the past few years, President Trump led government has made it even more difficult for people living on Visas in this country. Executive orders, one after the other are making sure that less and less "Legal immigrants" stay in this country. We have seen in the past that no matter any government, the importance have been given to illegal immigration and legal immigration remains broke. While people who illegally came to this country are enjoying all the benefits, and a legal immigrant working on OPT is unable to renew his/her drivers license (Those who have gone through this pain will really understand this)
I believe Republicans or Democrats, nobody cares about legal immigration. Legal immigration is an after thought for these parties. While Indian and Chinese nationals are stuck in the limbo for years to get their green card, somebody from Nepal or Bangladesh gets their green card in a year.
In a recent study, it was shown that more that Indian employer- sponsored applicants face an 8 decade wait for green cards, and nearly 200,000 will die before they could even theoretically reach the front line.
Even in Obama era, we did not see much change in terms of legal immigration. In his 8 year term, a lot of things could have been fixed but nothing was really done about it. While Democrats and Republicans keep talking about legal immigration, nobody is interested in fixing it.
In the recent months we have seen some executive orders which have made life of an legal immigrant in USA more and more difficult. As a legal immigrant, who has been paying taxes for years, you get 60 days if you are laid off from your employer, to find another job and that company should be willing to sponsor your H1b.
Countries like Canada and Australia are really benefiting from the broke immigration system that America has in place. Canada recently announced that it has increased the target from 900,000 to 1.2 million new immigrants in the next 3 years.
I am going to repeat what I said above. Republicans or Democrats, nobody cares about Legal immigration. Unfortunately the legal immigration system is broke and will remain broke for the foreseeable future.
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