The current immigration system promotes labor exploitation, cruelty on the border, and is just unfair. Certain groups get priority, having their papers processed within days while on the contrary, there are people who have been living and working in the US for most of their lives but don’t even qualify for legal residency. The current process of obtaining legal residency is extremely difficult, lengthy, and costly as there are too many restrictions for becoming “legal”. Furthermore, almost all undocumented immigrants are ineligible to apply for legal residency and those who have the formal requirements to apply still have to wait years to get a visa.The 12 million (rounded upwards) undocumented immigrants living in the United States show just how ineffective our current system is at facilitating immigration. It just isn’t working.