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The title of this video regards Comprehensive Immigration Reform. I haven't talked about this a lot quite frankly because under Trump I didn't think it was possible much at all although I think it could have happened in the first two years of his term. Under Obama, at the end there when we first started doing videos, I think it was kind of a dead letter because he was on his way out; Congress wasn't really in lockstep with him at that particular moment, it just wasn't really going to happen, it just kind of died on the vine. 

As divided in many ways, and look I am a complete outside observer in many ways to American politics these days. I haven't been back to the States in a number of years. My primary focus is out here in Southeast Asia but I do keep track of US politics especially as it pertains to things that I deal with on a day-to-day basis, US Immigration being one of them. I think it is pretty much high time we have got to get comprehensive immigration reform. I mean the system, for lack of a better word and I don't think there is a better word; it is fundamentally broken in many respects. I mean the people that are working in there; I have no doubt that they are good folks. In fact I've seen them, I have met them, they're fine, they are doing their job, they are doing it the best they can but in many ways, the last few administrations and I am not pointing out any one, although if you were talking to me one to one I would say that some of the folks that have come and gone were better than others in a political sense on this topic. That being said, I don't think there's any blame to be had. It is just the system is old. I mean the Immigration system that we presently have in the United States basically goes back to the Eisenhower Administration. I mean it has just been around so long I hesitate to call it antiquated but I don't know what the other word is. I mean the last major reform we saw was I think IRAIRA in the 90s and that wasn't even that big a deal. That didn't fundamentally change visa categories or the way cases are processed. One big thing that I would love to see under Comprehensive Immigration Reform is for family-based visas. Make a decision. Are you going to deal with it under Department of Homeland Security or deal with it at DOS at Embassies and Consulates abroad? Make a decision. Do it in one or the other because the system as it presently sits is very redundant and for the life of me I can't figure out why.

Now I know back under Trump, Tillerson, they have been kind of tinkering around with the notion of putting DHS officers in Embassies, I think that kind of went over like a lead balloon and then now we have continued kind of going on this wagon where the wheels are kind of rickety and just kind of moving forward. I definitely think it's time for Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Again I'm not politically savvy as to the up to the minute of what's going on over there, but it looks like you have got a pretty divided House, you have got a pretty evenly divided Senate. I think a bipartisan plan could come out of those Houses and be signed by the President within the next two years and In fact I think it should happen because you have got enforcement issues in certain places especially border areas of the United States, and then you have got issues of folks that are trying to legitimately get into the United States, go through the paperwork properly and it is kind of almost like a neo-soviet nightmare in many ways. So something to think about. Maybe I am just yelling into the abyss here but I think it is high time we start seriously looking at Comprehensive Immigration Reform in the United States.