[Alpha Kodiak]

Dragonlord:

For what it's worth (and based on both your description and my friend's), I agree that the current immigration laws concerning "non-immigrant workers" such as yourself need to be fixed. The trouble is that most people born here have no contact with the immigration system and don't know how ridiculous the system is, or worse, don't care. If I hadn't been exposed to it through the ordeal of my friend, I wouldn't have known anything about it.

While I have defended the U.S. in a number of areas, you have a legitimate complaint. One of the things I get frustrated about by our government (trust me, there are others) is that we fight against illegal immigration, but then we make legal immigration difficult. It would seem to me to be more efficient to make it easier to immigrate legally, and use the savings in reduced efforts at rounding up illegals to generate more jobs for those who enter the country legally.