\n\n“The lived reality of immigration is much less like a line and much more like the forking paths of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. Make the right choices (marry an American, get hired by a U.S. firm at the executive level, win a Nobel Prize, secure an H-1B visa and parlay it into a green card) and you can make a life in the United States! But make just one wrong choice (marry a Canadian, fail to achieve tenure, get hired by a foreign company, don’t have an employer that will sponsor your green card application), and you’re out of luck.
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And most people don’t have the opportunity to make any of these choices. A low-education, working-age Mexican male\u2014that staple of blue-collar employment in the American Southwest\u2014does not qualify as a permanent immigrant under any of the visa regimes listed above. There is simply no path for many people in the world.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n