I cannot imagine having to wait 18 years or more to get through the citizenship process, but people do it. - - Donna Poisl
By RANDY ELLIS NewsOK.com
Give me your brilliant, your rich, your highly educated citizens - but not too many please.
Those words will never resonate with Americans like the oft-quoted line in the 1883 Statue of Liberty poem by Emma Lazarus: "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free."
They do, however, come much closer to describing the United States' official policy toward immigration today.
U.S. immigration laws are a patchwork quilt of preference categories and numerical caps that can ease the way for people like scientists, star athletes, and wealthy entrepreneurs to immigrate to the United States, while leaving unskilled laborers who are desperate for work sitting in lines for years.
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