I should also note it is my belief --my belief-- that most people in the US, outside of certain groups, are for LEGAL immigration. Don't come here illegally or with a student visa and then cry foul if not welcomed.
EDIT: the reference to student visas is about using them illegally to get in and then stay. It is NOT about not allowing students with proper visas to come in and study.
A student visa is a completely legal way of entering the US.
PS. Post the Boston bombings the immigration officials at the port of entry are required to verify valid student status before letting students (F1 visa holders) into the US. This means the chances of people entering the country illegally through a student visa are slim to none.
The generic issue of using forged credentials to get an unauthorized job is applicable to any visa. And if I wanted to overstay my visa, it would be dumb of me to choose a visa that was as carefully tracked and monitored as as the F1 visa.
Again, legal immigration.
If you want to stay and work go through the proper legal process and get a resident visa.
F1 students are allowed to work 20 hours a week when the school is in session and 40 hours a week during the summer.
Which is completely irrelevant because the US is hundreds of times larger than many countries.
That's why we use percentages.
10000 Americans love pizza
15000 Americans hate pizza
10 Chileans love pizza
15 Chileans hae pizza
America loves (and hates) pizza 1000 times more than Chile?And, if I chose to play your game, according to the same page approximately 12% of our population are immigrants. And this is very much on par and well above most European countries. And, after eliminating the top layer on that list, all of which are corner cases (i.e. Vatican City) the US and a number of European countries are in the top ten countries in terms of the percentage of immigrants as related to total country population.
So, at this point, I have no clue what your problem might be with this other than to imagine that you are just looking for a way to claim that Americans hate immigrants, which is simply not true any way you care to look at it.
That doesn't take into account the population of the US. Relative to other countries, the US does have lots of foreign-born population, but is far from being the one with more immigrants.
EDIT: If you click on "Immigrants as percentage of national population", you'll realize that the US is one of the lowest in developed countries. So I guess I am disputing your point.
The US is ahead of Germany, France, Spain, United Kingdom, Russia, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Finland, South Korea, Japan, Sweden, and so on, but you claim it is one of the lowest in developed countries?? Twisting the facts much?