The "Legal" Immigration System Reform in The Comprehensive Immigration Reform

The "Legal" Immigration System Reform in The Comprehensive Immigration Reform The immigration reform debates and talks have focused on the three components: Border Security, Immigration Enforcement, and Legalization of Undocumented Immigrants. Why? Because these are key issues that have divided lawmakers, political leaders, and political parties. As time has gone by, there appears to be a compromise looming up between the right and the left through the left more or less accepting the right's issue of strengthening border security and immigration enforcement and the right agreeing to legalization within the context of keeping the legalized undocumented immigrants at the end of row of immigrant wait lines. What about other key component of reforming broken "legal" immigration system? Thus far, some pieces of such reform have been introduced in the form of piecemeal immigration bills. Additionally, both employment-based immigration advocates and family-based/other immigration advocates talked about their points here and there "sporadically." It is tragic that the legal immigration reform advocates have been so narrowly obsessed with reform of their interest only without discussing their issues within the framework of more broad and overall reform of the entire "legal" immigration system. Thus far, no one has come forward to discuss in the media the overall reform of the legal immigration system. The key issue that divides between the right and the left for the legal system reform involves the total immigrant quota the nation should accept. Obviously, the right will focus on keeping the number of immigrants at the current level or less and at a restrictive level, while the left will advocate to accept increase of the total annual numbers. The position of the right has been to reduce family-based immigration or non-employment-based immigration quota and increase the employment-based immigration quota within the level of keeping overall number within the current immigration system. The Bush comprehensive immigration reform represents such concept with the eventual goal of keeping the new total immigrant numbers at bay. Obviously, such proposal is not acceptable to the left that focuses on family unification and traditional concept of diversity in immigration system. For the reasons, the left will not accept reform of immigration reform unless the right is willing to accept increase in total immigrant numbers as the left also recognizes that the nation needs foreign talents and should accept increased number of such talents in one form or another. From the standpoint of the left, the position of the right presents insurmountable complicated power allocation issues as well as serious ethnic and racial implication issues as the reality is that no Europeans or other white races or ethnic group are immigrating to this country for the two reasons, among others: Their countries are well off economically and otherwise. The other reason is that they do not have close relatives in the United States who can sponsor their immigration under the current family-based immigration system. For the reasons, the right's push for reduction of family-based immigration system or diversity immigration naturally leads to implication of controlling immigrants from other ethnic or racial groups, typically so-called third world. The issue gets touchy and complicated under the circumstances that there are plenty of xenophobic sector of population that are concerned with growing imbalance of demographic distribution of the nation's population between the whites and nonwhites. For the foregoing reasons, reform of legal immigration system involves much more complicated and serious issues the nation and national leaders must address and seek a consensus in one way or another. The problem of the right to accept increase of employment-based immigration numbers without reducing the family-based or diversity immigrants may stem from a calculation that eventually such increase of employment-based immigrant numbers as well as keeping the family-based or diversity immigrant numbers will lead to a "reality" that it will lead to explosion of minority population in the sense that most of employment-based immigrants are coming from India and China and most of diversity immigrants are coming from Africa. There are already flood of immigrants coming from Asia and Central or South America based on the family-based immigration system. http://www.greencardapply.com/news/news13/news13_0305.htm http://www.greencardapply.com http://www.greencardfamily.com