The US has a process for highly skilled workers as well, not an easy one but it exists.
I don't have the numbers but looking at the amount of illegal immigration into Europe, and looking at what "jobs" most of the semi-legal (refugees, asylum seekers etc.) who also outweigh the amount of high skill labor coming into Europe I won't say this is a US specific problem.
I would also suspect that Canada with it's point based system has the same issue as well. Their immigration system is just more publicized and was given a priority especially during the late 90's and early 2000's since they felt like they were losing the competitiveness with US based companies.
Heck I've been to Canada 3 times in the past 5-6 years and the amount of what i would assume is "illegal" immigration in some of the cities there seems to also be quite high, quite a high percentage of Asian and African decent workers that don't speak English or French and seem to be very wary of people in general.
I don't have the numbers but looking at the amount of illegal immigration into Europe, and looking at what "jobs" most of the semi-legal (refugees, asylum seekers etc.) who also outweigh the amount of high skill labor coming into Europe I won't say this is a US specific problem.
I would also suspect that Canada with it's point based system has the same issue as well. Their immigration system is just more publicized and was given a priority especially during the late 90's and early 2000's since they felt like they were losing the competitiveness with US based companies.
Heck I've been to Canada 3 times in the past 5-6 years and the amount of what i would assume is "illegal" immigration in some of the cities there seems to also be quite high, quite a high percentage of Asian and African decent workers that don't speak English or French and seem to be very wary of people in general.