Amidst all the rhetoric we keep hearing about the 20 million+ illegals that are in the country and how we need “comprehensive” legislation that will grant them amnesty, we hear insane stories like these. The government refuses to raise the number of H-1B visas that would allow educated professionals to enter the country, but gives a green card to a drug-addicted, prostitute because she claimed to have information on Elliot Spitzer’s involvement with hookers.
It’s hard for educated people with valuable skills, like doctors and scientists, to immigrate because Congress won’t lift the unrealistically low cap on H-1B visas, notes the Washington Post. “H-1B visas are reserved for the world’s best and brightest, and barring their entry is economic self-sabotage. The cap keeps out doctors, engineers and other specialists — people who save lives and often create jobs for others in America.” The result is that high-tech operations set up shop abroad rather than in America, costing our country jobs and economic growth.
Meanwhile, a drug-dealing hooker and convict who would have been deported is being given permanent residency (a green card) just for telling prosecutors what she knew about Eliot Spitzer after his role in a prostitution scandal broke.
So the people that we should be encouraging to come to the country — productive, educated, professionals — are being locked out, while drug-addicted hookers are not only not be deported, they’re actually being hurried through the immigration maze and given their permanent residence card.
There’s more here, and, yes, it does get worse.
