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4 Aug, 9 tweets, 9 min read

The recent attention in the media to the pressing issue of #DocumentedDreamers gives us an opportunity to take a bigger view of immigration issues. The issue of kids aging-out is an unintended though not unforeseeable consequence of massive #GCBacklogs.🧵 👇 1/9

Fundamentally, this is a demand-supply and allocation issue. The number of #GC annually given out has not changed meaningfully since 1990. Meanwhile the US economy and labor market today are completely different from back then. 2/9

On top of this supply issue of #GC is the fact that their allocation is not equitable. How long you wait in line, usually boils down to the country you were born in. Not on skills, education, work experience, duration of stay in the US or contribution to the economy. 3/9

#Covid19 related disruptions have now opened up these immigration cracks in a way that is impossible to ignore. #H4EADdelays and #I485 adjudication times are through the roof, #EB5 has lapsed and #IV processing has a backlog of millions

It is going to get worse 4/9

An ungodly number of #GCs will soon be wasted, unless urgent action is taken (link at the end of thread).

Lost visas = longer wait time for #GC = more kids aging out. Lather, rinse, repeat.

#DocumentedDreamers are an acute manifestation of a much larger problem. 5/9

The immigration system simply isn't working for hardworking, tax-paying immigrants.

The US can do better. 6/9

It can take the #Covid19 driven #immigration crisis and turn it into an opportunity to pursue #immigrationreform which has the potential to help economic recovery as the world pulls itself out of this pandemic.

It is possible. It is do-able. It is within reach. 7/9

https://twitter.com/MHackman/status/1422908767922966532?s=20

https://twitter.com/MHackman/status/1422908767922966532?s=20

8/9

#GreenCardBacklog #H1b #H1Bvisa #H4 #H4EAD #H4EADdelays #Immigration #legalImmigration #GCBacklog #S386 #HR1044 #PathToCitizenship #CitizenshipAct2021 #F1Visa #StudentVisa #hr6 #KeepThePromise #DV2020 #DV2021 #ImproveTheDream #HomeIsHere #TheOnlyHomeTheyveKnown #DACA 9/9

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In 5 minutes of testimony, @David_J_Bier has managed to not just illustrate the serious gaps in legal immigration policy, but also address why things stand the way they do.

Excerpt about employer-based Green Card path from his testimony on “Why Don’t They Just Get in Line?” 🧵👇

Employers may sponsor their employees, but their employees have a hard annual numerical limit of 130,000 green cards—half of which go to the spouses and minor children of the workers. This limit was last updated in 1990.