[USA] A Point System for Immigrants Incites Passions / New York Times, 5 June 2007
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Robert Pear
"Ekaterina D. Atanasova, a civil engineer from Bulgaria who lives in southern Maine, wants to bring her husband to the United States. Under the Senate immigration bill, he would get high marks - at least 74 points - because he too is a civil engineer, has a master’s degree and is fluent in English. But Herminia Licona Sandoval, a cleaning woman from Honduras, would have no hope of bringing her 30-year-old son to the United States. He works as a driver at an oil refinery, lacks a high school diploma, speaks little English and would fare poorly under the Senate bill, earning fewer than 15 of a possible 100 points.
But the plan is provoking strong opposition from leading Democrats, who say it smacks of social engineering and reflects a class bias."