Thursday/ the legal immigration morass in the USA

I am following the current discussions to make reforms to the broken US Immigration laws with interest.  The 11 million illegal immigrants in the country will have to go ‘to the back of the line’, some people are fond of saying.   Well, probably so – but that line is very, very long.  Check out this chart that appeared in ‘Reason’ magazine in 2008 ..  Legal Immigration Chart.

Are you skilled
This was me (on the chart). My skills were in implementing the German enterprise software maker SAP’s system, that took off like wild fire in Fortune 500 companies some in the 90s.
Total time
.. and this is me in 2007 (the beard is symbolic!), a citizen some 12 years after I had first arrived in the USA with an H1-B visa in 1995.

 

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