focusing on high-skilled immigrants would help prevent any negative effects on low-skilled workers' wages.

For government budgets, higher-skilled workers find jobs more quickly, earn higher wages, and pay more in

taxes. Several other immigration-friendly countries, notably Canada and Australia, have immigration systems

where those with high levels of education or job skills have a much better chance of obtaining permission to

immigrate. For the United States, high tech companies regularly ask for a more lenient immigration policy to

admit a greater quantity of highly skilled workers under the H1B visa program.

The Obama Administration proposed the so-called “DREAM Act” legislation, which would have offered a path
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to citizenship for those classified as illegal immigrants who were brought to the United States before the age of

16. Despite bipartisan support, the legislation failed to pass at the federal level. However, some state
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