Graduates Preferred to Grandmas in Proposed US Immigration Bill Rachelle Younglai - Reuters
go to original May 5, 2013

Deported workers, families and activists rally outside US embassy demanding amnesty and reunification of broken families. (TheRealNews)

U.S. immigration authorities would give preference to better-educated and trained visa-seekers who can contribute to the American economy under a less-noticed provision of the immigration bill in the U.S. Congress.

The bi-partisan bill in the U.S. Senate would rewrite the half-century-old standards that control legal immigration to favor skills over family ties.

The winners of this proposed "merit-based" system, experts say, would be primarily from Asia, particularly from India, China and the Philippines, whose citizens are more likely to have attended college or have on-the-job training in skilled occupations such as engineering and technology. The losers are likely to be Mexicans and Central Americans.

The new system, long advocated by economists and politicians who believe the main purpose of immigration laws should be to serve economic growth, would replace one geared mainly to reuniting families.

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