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I don't really want to come down on either side of this arguement, so I'm going to do the most uncomfortable thing that I know of - stradle the fence.
One of the problems with the system is the arbitrary limits imposed on various nationalities that want to work here. If you're lucky enough to be English, getting a work visa is ridiculously easy. My company occassionally does intern swaps with some Lloyd's brokers in London, and it's always been very easy for us to get the paperwork through without any big problems. The same goes for most of Western Europe.
There's a cap on the number of Mexicans (for instance) that can come to the US. There's a different one for Indians, Bulgarians, etc.
I think that there's a serious problem within ICE. We had a Bulgarian that we tried to hire to coach for my fencing business. He was in the US on his athlete's visa, which allowed him to stay for 6 months and compete and earn. We wanted to pay him full time, and he started dating a Bulgarian here. We tried to do everything right and get him a work visa as a coach/extraordinary athlete, which is usually pretty easy to prove especially with his accomplishments. They agreed that he was an extraordinary athlete but not a coach since he hadn't coached any finalists at the national level in his sport in Bulgaria. We had him reapply as an athlete, although his career is basically over, and they agreed and gave him a green card within 6 months.
My point is that there are arbitrary rules and quotas and the whole system no longer makes sense. It all needs a major overhaul.
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