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A few years ago, Senate Republicans were evenly divided on the Kennedy-McCain immigration measure, a bill that had the strong support of a Republican president. Now it's likely the opposition will be more unified. Even if Democrats make room in the Senate schedule to address immigration - a big question, given the fights over cap and trade, health care, Sonia Sotomayor and other issues - there's real doubt about whether another big bill can be done amid the rush.
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American companies are worry about the future of the current immigration bill because the necessity of foreign professionals and the work visa issues that limited the number of educated immigrants entering and/ or staying in the U.S., but what about the legal immigrant professionals who are already hear? What is this country doing in order to welcome them and to help them find a way in the American workforce. I am an immigrant professional myself holding a green card, and it took me more than a year to get a job in my field. I want to suggest paying more attention into this group of people. Upwardly Global's mission is to help U.S. employers benefit from the hidden talent pool that exists amongst immigrant professionals, and to equip these under-employed individuals with the skills and resources necessary to rebuild their careers in the U.S. Using a holistic approach that includes Education, Engagement and Employment, Upwardly Global partners with Fortune 1000 companies to develop and implement strategies that address talent and global diversity needs.

What is wrong with merit.

1. i am working here without a permit for an architect..people who advocate merit based immigration overllok the difficulty for people in other country to find work or education opportunities in their home countries.

setting merit as the standard for addmition will left many talented people out!

most chinese, korean, italian, russian jews, who came here in the past came with not much personal merit in possesion..

if i would be able to find work in my country i might have also stayed there.

2. last point..the final reason i'm here is as a mixed jewish-muslim couple me and my wife couldn't think of a better place to raise our to be mixed kids.

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Failure to create a sustainable economy may be a more significant issue than immigration. If, as claimed, 1/3 of future US jobs will not require a high school education, those jobs should be reserved for US-born subliterates leaving US “high schools.” Undocumented subliterates must therefore be deported. Perhaps some NYC high schools should be closed and the land sold to developers. NYC’s budget would show a gain rather than a loss. New York’s City University may be an unnecessary expense. Some tax-saving action by Congress would be preferable to the current wheel-spinning in DC.

Listening to the immigration debate... Why not increase and collect all the fines from the illegal immigrants and the employers who hire them. Use the additional income to fund jobs programs in the home countries of those who paid the fines so that more of the countrymen would have an incentive to stay and improve their home country!?!?!?

Charge the fines annually to employers and illegal employees as an incentive to peruse these people to return home and force employers to hire legal residents.