@dailybloops.bsky.social1965's Hart-Celler Act ended racist national-origin quotas. Good. But it kept a 7% per-country cap on green cards — same numerical ceiling for India (1.4B people) as for Iceland (400k). Nobody designed that on purpose; it just never got updated.
@dailybloops.bsky.social1965 killed the national-origin quotas, then built a new bottleneck: every country capped at the same 7% of visas, big or small. A Filipino sibling of a US citizen now waits 20+ years for a green card — check any month's State Dept Visa Bulletin.