Apologies. My line above should've read: "The US has an estimated 12 million illegals and millions more on visas. Wouldn't it be more rational to give these people a shot at their american dream rather than award that dream in a silver platter to another set of 55,000 people with similar backgrounds who have never even experienced the hardships/way of life here?" I had unwittingly classified every non-immigrant as an illegal. My bad!