Green Cards

Our country gives out 140,000 employment based green cards each year,  giving illegal immigrants safe harbor and work permits, and also makes it so that they cannot be deported. President Obama would like to raise the amount of employment based green cards given out each year to help business and ultimately our economy.

There are two proposals that could raise the amount of green cards given out each year. The first one is that spouses of workers don't get counted under the 140,000 green cards, which they are now, they predict that doing this could almost double the amount of available green cards. The second proposal would be to take back the unused green cards from previous years, which could produce 200,000 more green cards. This could also result in more legitimate companies that pay taxes and follow the law, the immigrants would become documented and they would have a more stable source of income. They could also get the benefits that come with many jobs such as health insurance.

In The Distance Between Us Mago, Carlos, Reyna, Betty, Leonardo, and their parents all get green cards. After they got them they didn't have to worry about being deported, they weren't breaking the law anymore, and they could actually help the country that gave them so much. Although they didn't use the benefits that came with some jobs it still made living in the US much safer and gave them many more opportunities.  Because of Reyna's green card she got an education, she wrote books, and she got to live a good life. It gave each of them a fighting chance to have a better life. Although they didn't take all of the opportunities that they could have, their lives turned out so much better than it would have in Mexico, they had a much greater chance of achieving greatness.  Once they began to build a life in the US being deported back to Mexico would have ruined that new life, and been a waste of desperately needed money.

Link to article: Obama Weighing Business-Friendly Immigration Actions