The Patriot Post® · Key Immigration Problems Remain Unsolved

Larry Kudlow: “Obama’s executive actions not only usurp powers that are not his, they don’t really solve key immigration problems. Mainly, not even Obama is attempting to increase visas (that are the purview of Congress). Therefore there’s no clear legal immigration process for the most important group: the high-tech brainiacs who are likely to be the entrepreneurial engines of new business start-ups and overall job-creating growth. Tight limits on high-skilled worker visas and the whole whacky system of green-card, permanent-resident status are not being fixed. This can only happen through legislative change. In other words, Congress has to act (in this and a dozen other places). So the Silicon Valley crowd is not cheering Obama’s executive actions. … As Michael Barone has noted, it’s the high-tech brainiacs that we want to invite and protect. They are more important than the low-wage groups. … If the president had come to the GOP leadership and said, ‘Give me something in a couple of months,’ the whole immigration problem could be solved. But he didn’t. So now even I’m saying it looks like this game is not worth the candle.”