With so much debate on illegal immigration, we rarely discuss legal immigration – our laws and policies – and how they can be used to lessen the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States. Here to shed light on one of those policies, in what he calls the tyranny of priority dates is Gary Endelman. But first, Gary discusses why immigration in the United States is ‘demographically’ inevitable. Endelman is the In-house Immigration Counsel for BP America Inc., handling all U.S. immigration law for the BP group of companies throughout the world since 1995.