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The White House response is worth a quick read (PDF --- http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislativ...).

I spent the majority of my undergrad studying immigration policy, and I can sympathize with the WH's point that chipping away at immigration reform will only complicate broader reforms that eventually need to happen. The bill as written sounds a little unfair as it removes thousands of diversity visas and allows the educated a quick jump to the front of the line.

I understand economically why this would be desirable, but it isn't true reform.



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No, I'm saying the bill needs to be rewritten to not cannibalize the diversity visas.

We need both high skill and low skill labor in massive quantities; and as a country, we're dancing around a ridiculously broken immigration system.


The assumption that the DV lottery only brings in low skill labor is both insulting and wrong.


Your comment seems a little obtuse. My argument didn't make that assumption. A lottery is random; ideally providing a diverse selection of people across all skill, education and economic levels


Actually, the implicit assumption is that "only DV lottery brings in low skill labor", not that "DV lottery only brings in low skill labor".




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