// Wouldn't it make more sense to make the legal process shorter and less unnecessarily bureaucratic so that people are less likely to come in the country undocumented?
Lowering the bar until the kinds of people who are happy to break the law to come here are now legal is not the goal.
Immigration policy changes all the time. H1B was not a thing until the 90s. The country has the right to evaluate what it needs at a given time.
Why do people "break the law" to come to the US, and how do their coming affect you negatively? And again, H1-B is not an immigrant visa, I don't see why you're talking about it here.
They are economic migrants without the means or desire to immigrate legally.
> how do their coming affect you negatively?
They depress blue-collar wages for my fellow Americans. They increase competition for housing. They increase the burden on services like medical and education. I could go on and on...
Lowering the bar until the kinds of people who are happy to break the law to come here are now legal is not the goal.
Immigration policy changes all the time. H1B was not a thing until the 90s. The country has the right to evaluate what it needs at a given time.