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In anticipation of the new immigration bill of the Senate hopes to pass by Memorial Day,

we're here to talk to Cato Director of Trade Policy Studies Dan Griswold.

Dan, does America need a new immigration law?

It certainly does. Our current immigration law is fatally flawed.

The fundamental problem with our immigration law is that it's out of step with the realities of U.S. society today.

We have an economy that continues to create hundreds of thousands of jobs every year for

for low-skilled workers.

Most jobs created are for high skilled workers, but we create jobs in construction and retail and food processing and cleaning.

We all know what those jobs are.

And at the same time, the pool of Americans that are willing and happy to take those jobs continues to shrink.

We're getting older and better educated.

There just aren't enough Americans to fill those jobs.

And yet our immigration system has no legal channel for a

hard-working person from Mexico or Central America come in and fill those jobs and

the result is we have massive illegal immigration 12 million people living here illegally, that number growing by half a million a year.

We desperately need to change the immigration law.

You know, if you're a computer programmer or a college physics professor there's a way to get into the

country.

Get an H-1B visa you can come in.

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