[jaredhansen]

I too would love to have a dramatically simplified immigration policy, but political reality makes any kind of vast, sweeping reform really unlikely for at least the next several years (probably longer, but I'm not willing to predict that far).

Sure, neither the Startup Visa Act nor the Dream Act go far enough, but they're steps in the right direction, and if we oppose such measures on the grounds that they aren't big enough, it's going to be much harder to get anywhere. It's always easier to convince people to make 20 small changes than it is to convince them to make 1 big one that's 20x the size.