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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a long-time non-immigrant worker and I would support this bill.  The current system, apart from family ties, is arbitrary and illogical.  It would be so much better to have a system with an objective grading matrix where each applicant gets X points for certain things like graduate degrees, English fluency, solvency, childbearing age etc., and it's crystal clear what you have to have/achieve to immigrate here.  The current employment-based immigration system depends on arbitrary factors like whether your employer is willing to sponsor you.  This has nothing to do with how productive you will be as a new permanent resident.

And while it may be politically incorrect to say this, but it's never been quite clear to me why an illiterate, illegal, non-English speaking roustabout finds a sympathetic audience, a network of support, and a set of political forces lobbying on his behalf, while someone like me, with multiple graduate degrees, two houses and money in the bank does not.  Does America want to be a refuge of the last resort?
 Or a beacon for the best, brightest, and most productive?  Objectively, someone like me will be much more useful to the U.S. than not.  Objectively, my high salary and real estate taxes have already benefited this country.  Yet there is no provision for people like me to stay here unless you beg someone for an employer-sponsored green card.  It defies logic when you think about the kind of immigrants the U.S. welcomes vs. not. [/quote]

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