I cannot believe how limiting are these laws.
Do these people (immigration/government, etc) know that the economy of this country largely relies on the immigrant flow???
Spouses for GC or for citizens should be treated the same way i think. I mean, are they expecting people not even get married? Choosing between the country and their families?
I cannot understand...
Anyway, all these problems eventually will drawn the economy. It sounds unrelated, but it is not.
An example: My friends are mostly scientists. ALL of them are foreigners from different countries, from Germany and France to China and Russia or Brazil. The lab where they work is American, a government institution for high energy physics research. The scientists salaries come from different parts of the world, and some of them from here (those who are residents).
This is a big world project, in which Europe, Japan, USA, and even Latin America at a certain extent, compete over the years and develop knowledge (physics).
There are hundreds of scientists in this lab. However, after 911, the difficulties for the scientists to come with their families, all type of restrictions for spouses, etcetera (no driver licences for instance), made many of them to quit the idea of coming. Mostly the European ones (those are probably the ones who contribute the most to this project). They just refused to come unless treated as human beings. Period.
The lab (a government institution) had to contact the BCIS (not Homeland security at that time yet) and obtain a new type of visas for scientists or at least to lift some of those restrictions. The project was sinking.
The European scientists did not care whether they were coming here or somewhere else. They just wanted to do their job and have a normal life during the 2 years assignment.
They had to lift the restrictions.
However, the project is being planned to move to Europe in the next few years, and this site may be dedicated to minor things (compared to this project). The reduced budget to maintain the installations since the war started is another factor that is making this project less competitive and the world needs to move on. So... it just switches locations. Period.
Hence, US will be behind other countries in the competition.
Barbarian thinking is how this is called. Ignorance. And an intentional destruction of the culture and the economy by attacking its resources (workers, sciences and technology producers). Being powerful today cannot rely only on the military. Eventually it needs to be supported by deeper attitudes related to culture and science (what made this nation so huge is the application of sciences and hard working people in all fields!!).
Immigration of hard working individuals from everywhere and at all levels has been and is the blood fueling success in the USA. By attacking it at the level of violating civil rights (as a post I read in this forum of this guy who was in jail one night for "looking non-American") signifies an underlying intention of ultimately destroying the core of America: freedom (in all of its meanings), democracy, a country that is a project, an IDEA. Once the IDEA is lost, there is no more country, no more power, no more culture.
Because I definitely embrace the Idea behind this nation, is that I would like to see it always alive. Finally, critical thinking and constructive critique, also helps the idea to remain alive and contemporary. Foreigners, aside of their knowldge , inventive, and working abilities, come here with different backgrounds and perspectives, which leads to critical thinking and constructive critique.
