US to hike H1B visas, merit will count for green cards

[JDPriestly]

179. Try going to another country and just getting a job and living there.

You would quickly find out that you have to have a visa.

If we are all equal and need no visas, do we need nation states? What happens to the idea of democracy? Who gets to decide what the rules are in a specific geographic area? Do citizenship and national identity mean anything to you?

It is not a matter of equality. It is a matter of equal protection before the law. And what or who determines the law in a particular geographic area? In a democracy, it is the citizens of that area. In our country it is we Americans who guarantee to each other equal protection of the law. We do not guarantee equal protection of our law to people in other countries. And while people are here from other countries, we reserve the right to deport them under the laws that we as a democracy decide.

We do not need this H1-B visas at this time of high unemployment. Therefore, we should deport the people who are here on temporary visas of that sort or ask them to apply for citizenship. We should give priority and preference to American citizens. I assure you that Greece, and Bangla Desh and Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and Great Britain and Mexico and Venezuela give priority and preference to their citizens. That's the way it is, and that is as it should be.