{"id":3921,"date":"2007-12-04T04:38:26","date_gmt":"2007-12-04T11:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/12\/04\/migra-matters-for-most-unskilled-immigrants-there-is-no-legal-path\/"},"modified":"2007-12-04T04:38:26","modified_gmt":"2007-12-04T11:58:14","slug":"migra-matters-for-most-unskilled-immigrants-there-is-no-legal-path","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3921","title":{"rendered":"Migra Matters: For Most Unskilled Immigrants, There Is No Legal Path"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the kick-ass blog <a href=\"http:\/\/migramatters.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/147.html\">Migra Matters<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The yearly cap on unskilled workers is placed at a 5000 maximum. This despite the fact that according to the Dept. of Labor, the US economy produces between 400,000 and 500,000 new low-skilled jobs a year and the vast majority of the nearly \u00bd mil unauthorized workers who enter the country each year find work in these unskilled sectors.<\/p>\n<p>But as unrealistic as the 5000 cap appears, the situation is actually far worse.<\/p>\n<p>Last year the total number of unskilled workers allowed into the US legally was roughly half the official cap: 2513. Out of nearly 3 million people allowed to enter the country either as temporary workers or stay as legal residents, only 2513 were unskilled workers.<\/p>\n<p>But here comes that number I asked you to keep in the back of your mind \u2026.remember it 147?\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Of the 2513 unskilled workers allotted green cards last year, 2366 were already here living and working in the US. They simply &#8220;readjusted&#8221; their status to permanent residents (most likely from some temporary worker status) \u2026that leaves 147<\/p>\n<p>147 new un-skilled workers without US citizen or legal resident family already here were allowed to enter the US last year legally and receive green cards.<\/p>\n<p>147 out of 1,266,264.<\/p>\n<p>147 \u2026so tell me again how there is a legal path for all who are willing to work and wait patiently.<\/p>\n<p>How long is one expected to wait\u2026 because if the \u00bd a million who enter each year through improper channels were to go home and wait patiently for their turn, it would take over 3000 years before they would get that chance when only 147 are allowed in each a year. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the kick-ass blog Migra Matters: The yearly cap on unskilled workers is placed at a 5000 maximum. This despite the fact that according to the Dept. of Labor, the US economy produces between 400,000 and 500,000 new low-skilled jobs &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=3921\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration-migrant-rights-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}