Bill Gates on immigration

Anybody should be allowed to come here as long as they do it LEGALLY...I am not from here & I had to do all the paperwork & wait & wait & wait...its really no fun, but its also not fair to sneak into the country & get a free ride. If I had to do it the legal way then everyone else that comes here should have to also. But I don't believe telling someone that they can't come here cuz they aren't smart enough is definitely not fair either...

I'm currently an immigrant myself. And this is an interesting topic. see, bill gates is trying to filter people coming into his country. he, like many other might believe that immigrants can contribute to the society, and that he needs them. but he also might think that a common immigrant might take a job that an american could have, more immigrants can lead to less american having jobs, OR can lead to less immigrants having jobs, walking the streets, hungry. which leads to crime rates. either by immigrants or by locals. by him saying that letting the brightest and best immigrants in, he's filtering it. Its a matter of opinion. As an american, i might think that's a good idea, but as a non-american, i might say thats injustice, and is discrimination. I don't know really. I recently saw this indian movie called 'new york'. it showed how an indian who was a citizen of america was arrested by the FBI after the 9/11 and was tortured so bad. just because he took the twin towers picture for his assignment before the 9/11 event. he was completely innocent. but 9 months of torture made him into a terrorist. i suggest everyone should watch that movie. look at it from the asian point of view.

What about the engineers we have here already in this country that can't find work? I know of one in particular. I disagree with his judgement also. And we didn't have the dummer people here what in the world would we do with the money we use on food stamps and welfare? LOL Gates philosophy is getting real close to that of our favorite hate from Germany. White supremacy. I very definitely believe that the common, everyday people can also contribute to society in a meaningful way. We have teachers, manufacturers, security guards, and even mechanics. Think what they do for us everyday?

I think anyone should be allowed to come here as long as they go through the proper legal channels. I also think Bill Gates is another guy who is smart and successful in one area of life, so he then feels compelled to comment on other areas. With 50+ billion dollars, Gates could privately fund immigration reform. If he wants more engineers, designers, inventors, and whatever else he deems as qualified, he might want to think about creating a corporation for the purposes of hiring them. That way, immigrants wouldn't have any trouble applying and receiving working visas or whatever other documentation they need.

I agree with him. During these times you need best people that can help your economy boost. It will be faster if you get people from other places than to train its citizen to contribute to ecomonic recovery. That's just my opinion.

The United States should not be selfish. Unlike other countries, the U.S. is paranoid with Sept.11 terror attacks. They place a lot of restrictions, limitations on immigrations. With the current crisis, only immigration can help the U.S.

Common, everyday people, when given the chance, sometimes become extraordinary people. I do not believe we should focus on bringing in just the elite, but I do believe that certain types of criminals and terrorists should be kept out. We have enough of those that are home grown.

I think America should close the door on ALL immigration until every legal citizen who is abled bodied and wants or needs a job has one before bringing in foreigners who keep taking jobs from people who are already here and well educated but are consistantly not hired as immigrants can and do take jobs at a lower wage and group together to share expenses and housing. There are people with college educations who cannot find work who are born or naturalized citizens because immigrants get the jobs. I know of two doctors not USA citizens one from South Africa another from India. I know people from Mexico and Spain and Greece who have jobs while American citizens cannot get work. The standard of living is higher and so is the expectation. We need to put people out of work to work before bringing in even more competetion and more mouths to feed. There was a time when America had plenty go around and people could find homes, land and settle and make a living that day is long past. Now too many people are being allowed in from brightest to the not so bright and given a helping hand with housing, medical and more while our own people go begging and don't even have decent health care. If I were someone from another country I would question the sanity of really immigrating right now to a nation that is crumbling from within. If you don't take care of those of your own house hold first how can you take care of your neighbors?

Hey worldwise! I'm really not sure how I feel about immigration. It is so out of control at this point! If we had the choice to pick who comes into the country it might be different! But, being that we don't it does make things a bit different! Right now we have some many illegal immigrants entering the US that it really makes if very difficult for us to be even slightly selective! This is what is so maddening about this particular question! We don't seem to have a choice on who enters our country and it has gotten so extremely out of hand now!

I think Bill Gates really underestimated those people who are not smart, we can educate and teach them and in other ways they are also useful in country. As long as they come to the country with clean intention and in legal ways.

I think that it should either be all or nothing. You cant let educated people come and forget about all the other people. That is not right.

I believe it should be all or nothing but if we have everyone immigrating here we don't want the criminals. If they have a criminal record from their country they should not be allowed to come here. To many times people have been murdered by illegal imigrants.

i think it is the simple truth and Bill gate is right in his own way, it looks as if more criminals are being allowed into the united states more than good people and that is why crime rate will continue to get high, it will be ideal for the US to change its immigration policies and let serious minded people get in

After Bill Gates's retirement, he are focusing about the politics of this country, his company has A large quantity of talents,but he doesn't content to stand still, he want to absorb more smart people spread all over unite state, promote technology ,economy,health and humanity more fast, his ambition always are awesome, i believe he can become the new president of america in the future.(laugh)

I'm a big fan of Bill Gates and his works (both Microsoft and his Philanthropic activities). I don't really know what he meant by what he said from that interview. Is it, "smart people" from other countries should be allowed to migrate to America or is it, "smart people" from America should be allowed to migrate to other countries? Anyhow, I don't think he's making any "intelligence-discrimination" here. Of course, any person, regardless of how smart you are, can contribute something useful for the society. What he said from that interview is probably just a figure-of-speech.

I believe this is something that should be having a privacy tag with it.Some person does and should have some privacy.Think out on some other topic for better conclusions.Have a nice day