Instead they say they favor what they call a merit based immigration system. The way that system works in canada, for example, people who are fluent in english and have higher educational degrees are given preference to legally enter the country. What this does is it lets everybody compete individually. What fairer way can you do than have a situation where everybody has a same level right to get into this country if they qualify . To get more analysis on this bill we spoke with the bills pen, professor at university of San Francisco. He says switching to a merit based immigration system here in the u. S. Could create more competition for jobs for College Educated americans. A proposal to put in a skills based, merit based system really is going to compete with high skilled american workers. What is being proposed, actually, is green card status, lawful status for merit systems so this does benefit silicon valley, it benefits other industries, but there is a good question that needs to