In the backdrop of the US political battle getting fiercer day-by-day with the fast approaching general elections for the post of the president, some US political observers claim that the national immigration policy has hardly come to the surface in the election even as the bigger picture remains controversial–and inescapably so.
How to treat nearly 12 million unauthorized overseas people–a substantial section of them being rather industrious and law-abiding individuals? How to make the national borders comparatively safer and how much stress to give to that poorly possible objective?
Still, on a vital section of the strategy—the treatment of very qualified workers—a robust agreement remains that a comparatively more tolerant administration is the need of the hour and crucial for the economic prospects of the US. The incumbent President Barack Obama and the Republican contestant, Mitt Romney, have the same opinion on this issue. Nearly everyone who has pondered over the subject even for a minute concurs. However, nothing takes place.
The observers add that it would be rather hard to overstate the insanity of the American rules on the trained overseas movement of people. One does not know of any other progressive economy which twists its course of action so unsympathetically against the employees who are in the biggest possible demand. A significant number of the nations across the globe view themselves as fiercely competing to draw that type of migrant, in the strong belief that human capital is a key propellant of the economic accomplishment.
Much strangely, Washington DC boosts the lunacy of its cramped qualified-immigrant quotas with inspiring meticulousness. For example, by law it assigns submissions amongst nations on the basis of an ill-considered idea of diversity; instead of on the basis of own specific economic requirements. Several migrants from certain countries like India do extremely well in some top fields, such as engineering and medicine. Still, the quota for India is pretty insignificant, vis-à-vis its bank of amazing aspirants, and this unnaturally limits their numbers.
Further, Washington DC draws the brightest students from across the globe to its many educational institutions and universities only to exile them soon after such students have pocketed their degrees. In a situation wherein luck is on the side of the migrant, and he gets an H-1B permit—the much prized certificate sought by most oversea graduates turning-up on the US soils to do a job for an American job-provider/recruiter—it may take many years to get permanent residency (PR).
The observers conclude that the allegation made by some people that the insensitive and inconsiderate political calculations by the involved two leading political units have continued to hold back the reforms–which both the sides claim they are keen to have–does not seem either wrong or far-fetched.
