I’ve been illustrating The Ramayana in my art style for the past year now.
Here are some of the illustrated scene: an ongoing 🧵
1. Hanuman showing this Devotion
Garion was lawfully brought to the United States at age 3. Despite being raised and educated here, he faces leaving the country due to our broken immigration system.
It makes no sense to force out American raised and educated talent.
It is time to pass America’s Children Act.
.@ManhattanInst found that allowing children of legal immigrants the ability to stay and contribute to America would provide a $100 billion+ fiscal impact in net present value and over $5 billion going forward.
The @ManhattanInst found that passage of the America's Children Act, which grants children of H-1Bs, E-2s, and other visas permanent residency, would generate an annual fiscal impact of over $5 billion. https://t.co/iYpHvIi6hX
@RepMMM@DeborahRossNC@SenRandPaul@AlexPadilla4CA should reintroduce this bill next Congress.
While the birthright citizenship EO is expected to be stopped by courts, the thought of its possibility shows why policy like America’s Children Act is needed regardless of what happens.
Children lawfully raised and educated in America are Americans and deserve citizenship.
The Laken Riley Act is already up to 49 amendments proposed by various Senators. Amendment #36 submitted by Senator Durbin seeks to add the Dream Act of 2025 to the bill, including legal dreamers (children of E-1, E-2, H-1B, and L-1 workers) who have been in the US since Jan. 1, 2021, were under 18 when they were brought to the US, and are attending school https://t.co/39pWYTVrUR
.@InnovateEconomy has released a report on important reforms to our immigration system.
Two top green card reforms include allowing children of long term visa holders raised in America to stay to retain their talents and eliminating per-country caps.
https://t.co/Rr5GM1wHKu
It’s a shame there are still amendments and bill text that explicitly requires one to be in violation of law to benefit.
While Amdt 15 is not being considered, if it were to ever become law, someone here lawfully since age 1 would not benefit, but someone who here unlawfully at age 17 would get a green card.
Completely avoidable mess.
The political problem with immigration policy boils down to a sentence David Neal once said. “It takes 5 minutes to explain, but 30 seconds to lie about.”
This is disturbing. The whole visa debate is void of basic facts.
H*1*B is for occupations that require special skills & at least a bachelor’s degree. It’s often a visa for permanent positions.
H*2*B is for temporary jobs for which U.S. workers aren’t readily available.
Aneesh Komanduri is a fourth-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the University of Arkansas, with a focus on causality, generative modeling, and trustworthy AI. (1/2)
While the H1-B visa system and the employment-based green card backlogs need major reform, the fact remains that the children affected by these outdated immigration laws spend decades being educated by American institutions (as early as kindergarten and often in STEM fields) and assimilating into American culture, only to be overlooked and forced back into the system after they age out.
Along with an immigration process that values merit, it’s dire that a fair chance is given to those kids who are American in every sense.
While the following post is a few years old, I’d still like to share it: https://t.co/wvaxRBQVLJ
@NirSave and I wrote this to highlight just how outdated our current legal immigration system is and how children of long-term visa holders, raised and educated on American soil, age out and are ultimately kicked out of the system.
At the risk of sounding redundant, I’d like to reemphasize: these children grow up and identify as Americans in EVERY sense of the word.
While the following post is a few years old, I’d still like to share it: https://t.co/wvaxRBQVLJ
@NirSave and I wrote this to highlight just how outdated our current legal immigration system is and how children of long-term visa holders, raised and educated on American soil, age out and are ultimately kicked out of the system.
At the risk of sounding redundant, I’d like to reemphasize: these children grow up and identify as Americans in EVERY sense of the word.
Although H1B visa is not without its flaws, it has contributed to the growth of US economy tremendously. The high skilled immigration does need some overhaul where the children of long term visa holders are not left behind either.
Clearly there is a common misunderstanding on how the system works.
There is no “fast track” in the scenario being stated.
High skilled immigrants are in fact waiting decades while their children raised here in lawful status are being forced to take talents to other countries.
@iamyesyouareno@MarioNawfal It comes down to this: do you want America to WIN or do you want America to LOSE.
If you force the world’s best talent to play for the other side, America will LOSE.
End of story.
I’ve been illustrating The Ramayana in my art style for the past year now.
Here are some of the illustrated scene: an ongoing 🧵
1. Hanuman showing this Devotion