Friday, November 21, 2014

America In Realization [11.21.14]

Immigration Reform



"President Obama took a historic, legacy-defining step Thursday night when he announced a plan to protect 5 million undocumented immigrants from deportation, satisfying immigrants who have fought for years for such relief. 

 Legal Status For 5M Undocumented Immigrants
The president's plan will allow undocumented immigrants who are parents of U.S. citizens and legal permanent residents, known as green card holders, to legally live and work in the country for a period of three years. He expanded the pool of undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children who are eligible for protected status.

The plan makes it easier for foreign workers trained in high-tech fields to enter, and stay in, the country. And it refocuses the nation's entire immigration enforcement apparatus on a much smaller pool of immigrants — those with criminal records, ties to terrorist organizations or gangs and people who crossed the border in the past year.

"Mass amnesty would be unfair. Mass deportation would be both impossible and contrary to our character. What I'm describing is accountability — a common-sense, middle-ground approach," Obama said from the East Room of the White House. "If you meet the criteria, you can come out of the shadows and get right with the law. If you're a criminal, you'll be deported. If you plan to enter the U.S. illegally, your chances of getting caught and sent back just went up." 

 High Tech Visas 
The administration will change regulations that dictate how foreign workers trained in high-tech fields can enter, and stay in, the country. 
Before, foreign workers were sponsored by American employers, but it was a difficult process to find a new job and start over with a new employer. Obama's plan will allow for more "portability," making it easier for them to find different jobs. 
The new plan will change the way foreign entrepreneurs can enter the country. They must prove they will invest a certain amount of money – for some visas, that can range up to $1 million. Under the new plan, entrepreneurs can use American investors as their basis to get into the country. 

Border Security, Interior Immigration Enforcement
DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson will lay out a set of immigration enforcement priorities, ensuring Border Patrol agents, Immigrations and Customs Enforcement officers and U.S. attorneys will focus their deportation efforts almost exclusively on undocumented immigrants who pose a threat to national security, are members of gangs or have serious criminal records. 

Permanent Legislative Solution
Obama said he wants to work with Congress on a legislative bill that would supersede the executive orders.
"I want to work with both parties to pass a more permanent legislative solution. And the day I sign that bill into law, the actions I take will no longer be necessary," Obama said."
My post on Immigration Reform

"Immigration reform should have positive impact on the American Economy.


  • More tax from legalized immigrants (currently undocumented).  

  • More “Brains”: bright foreign born students with American Education and Smart Entrepreneurs joining the American economy (rather than leaving for his / her emerging country). We surely don't want foreign born students to leave our country once they are done with their Engineering or PhD degrees. 


  • As is evident from FWD.US, high tech companies enthusiastically support the immigration reform. They want to turn more of smart foreign Engineers into American Engineers.
Statistics reflect the motivation that is driving the high tech companies. 
In 2010, Asian Americans became the majority of tech workforce in the valley for the first time, making up 50.1 percent [1].One third of the startups in Silicon Valley are founded by Indian Americans [1]. 
  • America is a land of immigrants. After Christopher Columbus discovered America in the late 15th Century, the Spanish, the English, the Irish, the Germans and others crossed the Atlantic and settled in this vast land endowed with natural resources. 
  • Our immigrants have added to the diversity and to the economy, won awards and prizes for us, brought about changes for good and made us proud.

  • Moreover, immigrants bring new views, new perspectives from which to look at things we got used to. 

But we gotta be careful about Border security."

"She was so happy she danced with a friend and yelled, "We qualify, we qualify."



Past Articles on Immigration Reform


"Studies have found that skilled immigrant workers are more likely than their domestic counterparts to create patentable inventions or start new businesses.  

Measures to make it easier to recruit skilled foreign workers are part of broader immigration reform. These are likely to include raising the annual cap on H1Bs to at least the 195,000 it stood at in 2001-03, when the talent needs of the tech sector were taken more seriously; a new STEM visa for foreign students graduating from an American university in science, technology, engineering or mathematics, who must now leave after graduation; and an entrepreneur visa for foreigners who raise funds to start a company in America. 
It is high time. Other countries are rapidly becoming more attractive. Canada this week launched a new Startup visa, available to any foreigner with C$75,000 ($74,000) to invest in creating a new business there."


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