Per a Congress.org PSA link to me today, it is represented Senatord Durbin (D-IL) wants a cap on H1-b visas until employers fill jobs with nationals and immigrants already here.

The problem is, Senator Durbin in all other legislation opposes ENFORCEMENT, enforcement funding, or both, to ensure that can happen; also, here within his own Illinois, it appears the politically orthodox economy is full speed ahead on new urban immigrant and handpicked "needy nationals", just as strong as ever with not much else on the current drawing board including preserving or adding to NUMBER of existant commercial and ethanol/agricultural edifices, in fact shrinking them ...which of course requires the same old same olds, and last I looked neither Bush nor the GOP were in charge of Illinois State-distributed funds; also, where will all the credito come from for these ever-growing folks you "can't compassionately turn away from housing or healthcare"...even if that's all you expect any nationals or immigrants will need, despite chances of repaying "kindnesses".

The United States recently was reported as now having the highest number of inmates in its entire history; that certainly is not a prideful boast, and occurs amid not a whit of HOW anybody already here can turn that around, nor do some officials think asking them to be allowed to "is healthy" or otherwise their responsibility...for example, in Chicago and many other towns, how binding, if even allowed, is any nature of citicen's advisory re TIFD's and such? Too often, the variances between advisories, sometimes even houses of faith, and officials is settled via eminent domain.

Wherefore, the Durbin proposal seems aimed more at garnering racist votes in that all it does is say "no more immigrants!" period...yet with all funding for enforcement opposed by Durbin, and his Illinois orthodoxy set on more a nature of expanding its status quos, in burning candles to the middle from both ends Durbin offers immigrants little as "accomplishments" in their regard.

I respectfully submit that slowing the pace of immigration for the purposes it effects despite vocalizations of intents seems necessary, and that Congress consider what other nations looking at the USA as a "dump for surplus folks" are doing in their own lands and if that will build export potential for any goods we might ideate; also, would acting like those nations be likely to increase USA dreams and help it keep other democracies and peaceable peoples inching ever upward?