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Yes but it's very difficult to win. There are two 'rounds'. You have about a 1% chance of winning round one and then a 50% chance of an interview (which you must pass). It's a route I've tried 6 times now with no luck (and it's an annual event).

Yes, but the quotas are too low.

We literally have 5 million Mexicans living in the US as second class people without access to worker protections and other institutional things. It's a situation that shouldn't exist.

My grandparents came here in the 1930's and 1940's. In those days, entry was pretty trivial. No reason why it shouldn't be that way again.

The sad reason why is the welfare state. It didn't exist back then so it didn't cost that much to accept immigrants.

Low skill immigrants cost a lot unless you do the second class mexican thing unfortunately, then they're cheap!

Yes, but it is tedious. It takes about two years (this October you applied for 2016) and your winning chances are between 1 and 2%.