Seems the Pubbies have received the message loud and clear, kiss a__ to the Mexicans and Muslims or become obsolescent. It´s a failing strategy. They will never vote Republican! No matter what!

Green cards are a joke.
The borders are not secure, INS is a joke, DOJ is a joke, SecState is a joke.

Just sent the border patrol home and let the illegals come in. That´s what´s happening anyway.

Highly-skilled need green cards huh? Unskilled need nothing.

I am a skilled and experienced Mechanical Engineer! I hav not found a permanent full time job in my field since obama was elected the first time.

So, now the gummint is going to bring in more competition for what few jobs exist??

Thanks!

So are they going to institute Red cards to remove all the lazy, do-nothing low lifes that already live here (disrespecting the country) and the ones that cross the borders for all the freebies out of this country?

Amazing that competent, highly-skilled American citizens who hold advanced degrees in science, technology, math are not able to find work but we need to give more green cards to those who are not American citizens. Ridiculous, hire what is in the country first.

Obama let in 785,000 more foreign so called students in 2011... who knows where they are now.

Green cards should only go to those with skills so they can care for themselves. Not in this admin. Dems want slaves not employable skilled folks.

Another slap at middle class America and white males in particular.

I´m w/ ya, #3 and #5. We can all thank Lamar! for introducing this idiotic legislation in the Senate.

What´s up w/ the government encouraging emigrants "from countries that have traditionally low rates of immigration to America"? This is simply further dilution of this nation´s founding values.

Lots of talk about a "war" on certain groups. There IS one going on against white males. My friends and I (white women) have had it up to here with politicians ignoring or dissing white males. Illegals and minorities constantly lionized. ENOUGH.

This provision to allow the spouses and children of aliens to come into the USA right away to await a "green card" sometime in the future is not good, as it will cause all sorts of immigration marriage fraud involving aliens already here with aliens who are looking to get into the USA but who cannot qualify in their own right.

Once the alien spouse gets a "green card" that alien can simply get divorced and stay here. Then the alien who sponsored "the spouse" can simply go aboard, get married to another alien spouse and bring that person into the USA. Once that type of all alien marriage fraud scheme gets up a head of steam, aliens already here will have a way to make a lot of quick money simply by going back to their home country, marrying someone there who wants to get into the USA, and then sponsoring them for entry to this country.

Hey, pubbies.....seems to me that there is at least one engineer in this country whose wife tried writing Two Won to see about an inside track to find work for him. Was our current pResident in office able to assist her? Just asking...btw, believe he and she were both US citizens. Awaiting an answer, yours truly....

As my mother use to say Speak now or forever hold your peace. We need to tell our senators not to expect our votes in the next election because they are doing nothing to help US.

Not so, #13. Search for "H1B Sponsors and Visa Employer Database Records" and also for the Salon report by David Sirota "Obama’s high-tech labor lies" published in February this year. That last source talks about the woman referenced by #13 who asked Obama how he could support high-tech work visas for foreigners when her husband was out of work. That article reports, in part:

Indeed, a generation of jobless engineers exists not because, as tech CEOs insist, they don’t possess the skills to fill open jobs, but because those tech CEOs aren’t looking for domestic workers. On the contrary, they are looking for foreign workers who will simply accept lower wages and fewer workplace rights than Americans.

. . . In early 2009, Microsoft announced it would lay off 5,000 workers. After meeting that target by late 2009 it announced another round of 800 layoffs. Yet it continued to import H-1B workers. . . .

Hey, we all want well trimmed lawns, don´t we????

Art

#14 hit the nail squarely on the head. We have PLENTY of people who´d LOVE to pursue careers in the STEM fields (and plenty who already hold degrees). The main issue is that these companies don´t want to pay these people what they´re worth. Their solution: hire more immigrants, pay them peanuts, subject them to conditions no one in his right mind would agree to, then hold their visa statuses over their head like the Sword of Damocles if they even think of complaining.

In other words, import high-tech slave labor and pocket the savings.

Help me square this with the trillion$ wasted on educating those born and raised in this country. It´s appears to be an emphatic admission that our schools ,from K thru PHD, are absolute failures.

What do they consider skilled? Long finger nails?