| Teeqoz said: Looking at statistics, about 350 000 people immigrate illegally to the US each year (and about 350 000 illegal immigrants also leave the country each year). That would be a 35% increase over your current 1 million green card number, which would in turn mean a 0.4% population increase from immigrants. I'm not saying the US has to take in everyone that wants to enter, this is just to put the numbers in perspective - Increasing the amount of green cards alotted each year by 10% would cover 30% of all illegal immigrants. That would already go a long way in alleviating the issues caused by people immigrating illegally. No need to use my age as a basis for arguments. Argue against what I'm saying, not my age. I'm not asking for an undoable miracle. America became a great nation due to rather lax immigration policies during the 19th century. |
We can't just magically increase the amount of green cards we issue by some number of say 10% spontaneously, 1 million is a big number as it is once we factor in that the US is going to do this every year for presumably the next decade or two so we'd at least want to ration the spots so we'd have enough resources to remain stable in the short and long term ...
Even increasing the green cards issued by just 5% would have some pretty large ramifications to our logistics ...
And I did not mean to use your age as an argument if that's the impression you got so my apologies there ...
