Weird. Why do I keep seeing 4-5 million in the press as the number of people waiting for green cards?
The 30-40 million comes from the fact that there are lot more people who would come to the US that haven't bothered to apply. If you relaxed the criteria the number of applicants would expand.
I'm not anti-immigration (I'm Canadian and we're slightly more relaxed about immigration) but there needs to be some controls in place.
You missed my point. I'm hypothesizing current long waiting times is suppressing people applying for US immigration. If you relaxed those standards a lot more people would apply and also get in by those relaxed standards.
You need to be able to "onboard" those immigrants.
The 30-40 million comes from the fact that there are lot more people who would come to the US that haven't bothered to apply. If you relaxed the criteria the number of applicants would expand.
I'm not anti-immigration (I'm Canadian and we're slightly more relaxed about immigration) but there needs to be some controls in place.