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Current |
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Reduced |
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Rationale |
| Green Cards |
396,265 |
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10,000 |
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Green Card (new arrivals given permanent residence)
Only given to spouses of American citizens.
Active program to have permanent status immigrants return to their home countries: $10,000 per adult and $5,000 per child.
$20,000 to any naturalized citizen willing to surrender citizenship and depart the country. |
| Green Cards for Illegals |
175,000 |
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0 |
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Obviously |
| High and low specialty workers |
359,477 |
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0 |
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American jobs for American workers. Increase medical students. Do not need foreigners to wash dishes. |
| Anchor Babies |
340,000 |
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0 |
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Require the U.S. State Department to require proof of birth of applicants parents. Either the parents birth certificate, or a state birth certificate stating the person was born to at least one American parent. |
| Illegals crossing the border |
300,000 |
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0 |
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Enforcement of employment laws. Illegals walked in. They can walk back out. |
| High tech, H-1B, workers |
130,138 |
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0 |
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End all high tech Visas and rescind the current H-1B and other Visas
American jobs belong to American workers. Also, these workers are allowed to come with dependents (not included in figures). |
| Unskilled seasonal non-agricultural labor |
94,304 |
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0 |
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Americans can pick their own apples.
Develop machinery to harvest crops (often available but cheap labor is cheaper) |
| Intercompany workers (often computer workers then hired by American companies) |
84,078 |
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500 |
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This is a scam. Hi-tech firms bring over their foreign workers then subcontract them out to American firms, thus avoiding H-1B and other quotas. Few are at a high enough level to make any significant input to the American economy.
Any entering on these visas must be a principal of the company with minimum yearly earnings (verified) of $250,000 per year. |
| Foreign students working or completed degrees |
70,000 |
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2,000 |
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Once here, they never leave. They extend visas, marry Americans, etc.
State universities and colleges are subsidizing foreighers rather than using the money for American citizens. |
| Unskilled workers in agriculture |
64,404 |
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0 |
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Replace them with higher paid Americans or machinery.
Put substantial tariffs on all foreign produced foods picked by slave labor abroad. |
| Visa lottery |
50,000 |
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0 |
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The most outrageous scheme of regarding American citizenship as a lottery prize. |
| Treaty traders, investors |
40,093 |
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Must be principals of a company earning $250,000 per year. |
| Models, singers |
37,652 |
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1,000 |
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America's got talent. We have plenty of skinny beautiful women.
If necessary, a very short term visa of three months for established actors. Leave their entourages at home. |
| Refugees |
35,000 |
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0 |
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A giant scam. Refugees never return home. This is a gold mine for refugee resettlement charities, who profit and then dump the refugees on public charity. It is run by the state department.
Active program to have refugees return to their home countries: $10,000 per adult and $5,000 per child. |
| International organizations, excluding diplomats |
23,830 |
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5,000 |
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Simply cluttering up parking spots in New York City and Washington. |
| Foreign journalists, writers |
17,069 |
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2,500 |
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Does the United States need 17,000 journalists reporting to the world? |
| Religious Workers |
10,061 |
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500 |
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Often bringing in Mexican priests to give assistance to the Mexican illegals. |
| Scientists, performers, athletes |
9,014 |
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2,000 |
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Other than Werner Von Braun, what foreign scientist significantly helped the United States?
If given, one year only.
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| NAFTA temporary |
4,761 |
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0 |
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| Irish Exchange Program |
2,444 |
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0 |
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18,000 Irish illegals are in the United States.
Why should the Irish have special visas? |
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2,243,590 |
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23,500 |
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Homeland Security; |
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Center for Immigration Studies |
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