Remarks by the President Obama on Comprehensive Immigration Reform

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Remarks by the President on Comprehensive Immigration Reform

"...More fundamentally, the presence of so many illegal immigrants makes a mockery of all those who are going through the process of immigrating legally. Indeed, after years of patchwork fixes and ill-conceived revisions, the legal immigration system is as broken as the borders. Backlogs and bureaucracy means the process can take years. While an applicant waits for approval, he or she is often forbidden from visiting the United States –- which means even husbands and wives may be forced to spend many years apart. High fees and the need for lawyers may exclude worthy applicants. And while we provide students from around the world visas to get engineering and computer science degrees at our top universities, our laws discourage them from using those skills to start a business or power a new industry right here in the United States. Instead of training entrepreneurs to create jobs on our shores, we train our competition..."

American University School of International Service, Washington, D.C.

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Edited July 2, 2010 by S&ET

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Honestly, I am very against people who came to US illegally and try to find way, such as fault marriage, to stay in US legally and get benefits. It takes so much money and time to go through the legal process while some illegal immigrants can just go to their Consulate to get immediate employment authorization in US. As an international student, we all put so much money in the education industry which the gov is still trying to be hush on us to get legal employment here.