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The House measure to expand the number of family visas for relatives of U.S. residents hoping to make the U.S. home is expected to benefit, among others, Mexicans, who often wait roughly 10 years for permission to live here.
Under a measure approved by the House Tuesday, with a 389-15 vote, family-based visa limits rise from 7 percent per country to 15 percent per country, an adjustment that could slightly ease the backlog for naturalized citizens, particularly from Mexico and the Philippines, trying to bring relatives into the United States.

The majority of immigrants in the United States are admitted through family-based visas. Mexicans account for about 30 percent of the U.S. immigrant population – that includes Mexicans of all immigration status – and nearly all Mexicans who are granted U.S. permanent residency, known casually as having a "green card," are admitted into the country on family-based visas.
Almost 60 percent of Mexicans admitted into the United States were immediate relatives sponsored by U.S. citizens, about 35 percent were non-immediate relatives.

Immediate relatives of a U.S. citizens include a spouse, unmarried children under 21 years of age, or the parent of someone who is at least 21. Visas for these categories typically are not subject to caps.

And here we see the anchor babies coming heavily into play. Here's how this works. Come into the country puke out a bunch of babies who are counterfeit citizens. They take their bogus citizenship and admit their parents who are already here illegally under this VISA.

The bill, said its sponsor, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, "does encourage high-skilled immigrants who were educated in the U.S. to stay and help build our economy rather than using the skills they learned here to aid our competitor nations."

Currently, the State Department issues about 140,000 such green cards a year to foreign nationals working in the United States, often after getting degrees from U.S. universities.

But why are we encouraging immigrants educated in the US to stay? The whole point of student VISAs is to contribute education to students from foreign countries to contribute to the advancement of their countries of origin.

He said the legislation would "remove outdated constraints that prevent us from attracting the kind of innovators who can create job growth in America."

But Compete America, a group representing high-tech companies such as Google and Microsoft Corp. and research institutes, said the bill would correct a problem in which very small countries are subject to the same 7 percent cap as large countries such as India and China, which account for more than 40 percent of the world's population.

The lengthy waiting periods for people trained and working in the United States "are contributing to a reverse brain drain in the U.S. as frustrated professionals opt to return to their home countries to pursue their professional ambitions," Kevin Richards, senior vice president of Tech America, which represents the technology industry, said in a letter to lawmakers.

U.S. employers are prohibited under law from hiring foreign workers unless they show there are not sufficient U.S. workers willing and able to take the jobs.

At a time of high unemployment in the United States, is there a downside to easing admission into the United States for foreign nationals to work here?
No, says Jacoby.

“Immigrants create jobs,” she said. “Skilled immigrants who invent products and start new businesses create jobs for Americans. Even unskilled immigrants, who are not helped by this bill, help [the economy] because, if your restaurant can serve lunch and dinner because you have enough workers, it brings more customers.”

It's really amazing. It's as if the so called "high tech" industries have become nothing more than job generators for non-citizens. If immigrants create more jobs in the US, we know that these jobs just go to more immigrants. Our economy has become a parasite economy for non-citizens in our country where citizenship itelf is being undermined and discredited. Counterfeit citizenship and jobs for non-citizens is all these politics represent.