Why We Have So Much Illegal Immigration
24th January 2025
From Short Circuit, a newsletter of the Institute for Justice:
Two married Indian nationals have lawfully lived in the United States on employment-based nonimmigrant visas since 2012. After waiting in line almost eight years for a green card, they thought they had reached the front, only to be told two years later that their applications were on hold indefinitely until more immigrant visas became available. The last time this happened, applicants waited eight to nine years for final adjudication. Fed up with the delays, they sue. Third Circuit: Federal law gives USCIS unreviewable discretion on how to manage green card applications and the visa backlog. Whether this particular policy is sound is not for courts to say.
Perhaps if we made the immigration process a bit more user-friendly and less GOVERNMENT-STUPID, we wouldn’t have so much of a problem. Just sayin’.