U.S. Immigration Policy

I will be honest, I have never read the U.S immigration policy until now. I knew some of the basic restrictions, but that is it. I guess when something doesn't effect you and your family directly you don't really look into it, which really is an ignorant way to live. I am glad I read it because I will be working with the public at large and I am sure I will meet families that this policy directly is effecting. I found it interesting that the government is ok with you immigrating here if you have your bachelor's and two years experience in a field we deem needed. Like we will let you become a citizen if you offer something we need and are skilled. We need people who will perform less skilled jobs though. Farmers are freaking out now that they have made them have to provide social security numbers for every worker. I see ads on Craigslist all the time by farmers looking for people to work in their fields and they have to say they have to have a social security number to hire them. They also have to pay them more to work which put a new strain on farmers. Undocumented workers are ok with working for less because they still typically make a lot more than they would back home. It is also interesting that if you have immediate family members here you can get your citizenship, but it sounds like that is still a line and a very long process. I feel that you still have to consider many of these "aliens"- people and families probably don't speak English and don't know how they might qualify for citizenship, so they just come illegally and hope they don't get caught. I have heard of several programs to help people with their citizenship but it has to be hard for then to get in contact with then. They would have to talk to other families from their culture who have been through it. There just seems like a lot of ways for people and families to get caught up in a this bureaucratic bull crap that permanently effects their lives. If really isn't fair. I am interested in what our guest speaker has to say about it.