Don’t Give Up
There are a lot of people who want change to come to the broken immigration system who are out there, and who are disheartened by recent events and are prepared to pack it in and head home. To you I say – Don’t Give Up. The more I talk to people the key is to find a way to bridge the language.
I keep coming from meetings where Job Creation is a key, it was also the key element of the State of the Union Address. Well, in that case, the challenge is to show how changes to the immigration laws will create jobs. If people get persuaded by the sound bite ‘they are stealing my job’ then we do have an issue. Instead we need to show that more legal immigration, increases salaries, revenues and jobs. So there are the easy programs to see where jobs are created, like EB-5, where if an investment is made, in order to get the immigration benefit you have to create 10 jobs per qualifying investor, but there are also programs like the E-2, where for a smaller investment business are started. There are L-1, where affiliate companies are opened. Of course USCIS has decided to make it really complicated for the principal to get a visa and stay. Where is the logic? What job do business owners steal when they open up their companies int eh US and hire other workers.
And let’s not forget the students we train here. If we find a way to keep them here, we get the benefits of the companies and ideas they create. If we don’t, what we get instead is new competitors in foreign countries. We don’t just lose job potential, but also lots of revenue.
Even last year with the TARP, stimulus funds. Those institutions who received funding could not avail of certain immigration programs because Congress wanted to make sure they created jobs for US workers. But if we needed a foreign architect or engineer, and their work created other jobs, we should be running to find people to create those jobs, no matter whether the worker was from the US or from somewhere else…
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