Durbin Blocks Green Cards bill in senate
 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bre...-giveaway/amp/

Basically Durbin blocked green card reform, what I find interesting is that the article mentions a plan to “staple green cards to foreigners of US colleges”, could Durbin be thinking of including us?

Breibart article but found it worthwhile.

Check out this video on Facebook at about minute 10:00 Durbin mentions the Dream Act and DACA. Basically he expresses support for the bill but wants to increase the number of green cards but spread them out among countries. Sen Mike Lee does not support that and of course, Trump is not for expanding the number of Green Cards, so ... looks like a standstill.

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Re: Durbin Blocks Green Cards bill in senate
 

I posted a link to a site who quoted breitbart and got locked and i got warned.

But sure people can post stuff from CNN....

Even if the articles are from places like breitbart, we need a broader outlook of whats going on with any situation related to us since regular news sources dont pay fiery attention on the immigration subject as these punks.

600,000 Indians were stopped from getting green cards by somebody in favor of immigrats, this hints that a potential broader immigration legislation could be inbound.

Re: Durbin Blocks Green Cards bill in senate
 

This ain’t going nowhere. Don’t get your hopes up, Trump ain’t stapling Green Card to anything.

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Oh this is that S386 bill which removes the per country cap (does not increase the total number of green cards). Since Indian nationals are the biggest recipients of work visas (with many reports of abuse), they've been lobbying for this and calling it fair because some of them have priority dates that will take 114 years to become current but then people from every other country are saying that if there are no caps, pretty much every work visa issued will be to those from India and limit diversity.

So what's actually fair? Everybody from every country having a same chance which leads to the much larger countries getting most of the visas or limiting bigger countries? Personally I think the current caps are more fair and if they really care about people waiting, they should increase the overall number of green cards instead.

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Damn 114 years to become current?

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Fairest option would likely to adjust the percent cap for high population countries and not get rid of it, that or keep the cap but throw any available otherwise unused visa numbers to over-backlogged countries. So you give priority to people from outside India or China but you also get rid of an artificial cap for them.

You leave it you get backlogs like this, you remove it completely and Indians will clog the entire system for at least 10 years (assuming no additional applications, which we all know - won't happen).

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Yeah I don't claim to know what the fair solution is but this isn't it.

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Chief said this ain't it

Re: Durbin Blocks Green Cards bill in senate
 

Durbin will retire in 2026