In the US by mid-January 2019, migrant levels and outright invasion had reached epidemic levels echoing countries across the Atlantic who cultures and traditions have been attacked by incoming invaders reminiscent of centuries gone.
No longer should you push the option out button of US immigration policies. It totally understandable give the concerted and well orchestrated campaign to keep it a implicated matted mess no wonder people gave tackling understanding it a miss.
Legislatures and lawyers take relatively simple matters and in the quest for billable hours make them so intimidating only another lawyer can sort the mess.
The risk to one's quality of life, job opportunities and personal safety are such you have to buff up on this thorny topic.
Book-Snippet has condensed over a century of US immigration policy in ten thousand words and provided quick chart with the valuable Legislatives numbers that differentiate one policy from another.
I can speak from the point of view of both someone who immigrated to the United States in the pre-1965 era wen Immigration & Naturalization Service was highly selective.
What can you do for America?
Not what American can do for you!
In 2019 the concerns of the American electorate are being trampled over just as they were over a half century ago, What the lion's share of Americans wanted was a re-calibration of immigration policy, what they got instead was an overhaul and the annual requirement of "aliens" letting the INS know where you were every January, a form that took my mother only several minutes to fill out at the Kailua Post Office on the island of O'ahu -was totally abandoned.