No voice for legal immigrants!

While millions march around city streets protesting the new immigration proposals, people like me sit at our cubes and stare at those news articles on the sites like CNN.

Like me, many came to this country legally to work in high-tech industry. We have been paying taxes all these years and contributing directly to the american economy.

We all want to become permanent residents through legal means here in this country. So we applied for it many years ago and we are still waiting for our green cards and we don't even know if we get it in next couple of years due to severe retrogression in immigrant visas. Why do we have to wait for so many years when we are valuable resources here in this country.

I know a lot of people say that we are stealing jobs from american citizens, i disagree with all of those. If all of us have to leave this country and leave those jobs to americans then there won't be enough people to fill those jobs and ultimately all those jobs will move to india or china. I don't think that's better scinerio. Look at the cities with large immigrant population versus the cities that do not have large immigrant popluation, you will see that those that have immigrants are prospering better than those that do not. That should give you an idea.

I don't think this country should turn down the legal immigrants who are filling these high tech jobs. They are valuable and they will be valuable in the future. Look at the founders of great companies like ebay, yahoo, sun, etc... all of them are immigrants.

Now, to the main point...
While all illegal immigrants voice their concerns one way or other, we legal immigrants have no voice. Although there are a few web sites(like www.immigrationvoice.org) trying to voice, there is no real coverage from media on the problems of legal immigrants and people who want to become immigrants legally.

I really think there should be some mainstream coverage for all those 'want-to-be-immigrants' people who are facing severe problems with immigration system in this country.

I hope i get some support from people like you. Please leave a comment if you support.

Thanks