Indian kids aren’t same as Dreamers
I’m perplexed by the interest of the Dispatch in the fate of kids of H-1B holders and comparison of them with so-called Dreamers (“Ease policy for legal immigrants’ kids. Dispatch editorial, Monday). If a parent has an H-1B visa, he knows it is not for immigration, and he should prepare himself and his children to return home. These people have specialty services and are well paid. I’m surprised a person might carry this visa status for years and never return home for even a vacation with his children.
The Indian families I know love their relatives and their homeland and travel back and forth visiting. If the job cannot be filled by an American within a reasonable time, replacing the visa holder, maybe the company employing the H-1B person should sponsor him for an immigration visa. That would lead to the child getting immigration, as well. If not, this family has the means to return home and live well, contributing to their country.
Dreamers are children brought here illegally by parents who work in our black market of labor, the wink-wink American system that has existed to import Mexican and other labor probably since parts of Mexico were made into our southwestern states. By the nature of living undocumented, Dreamers cannot travel back and forth to visit family and learn to live in their country of origin. They and their parents have also been encouraged to stay by American employers and by a lack of effort by U.S. Immigration over many years.
When we finally focus on our broken immigration system, we need to pay for our previous laxity and help out the children who are caught up in the mess we allowed to be created over all these years.
Norma Tarazi Hilliard Westerville