Teh problem however remains. A demand for the workers, but no legal means for them to enter. I am not proposing a free for all. Just a system that meets the needs.
I get tired of people acting like these workers couldn't be bothered to do it the legal way when there is no legal way.
If we really were serious about it. We would have created a system that allowed for work visas to fill the demand. We would have required all eployees to use and e-verify system. We then would have eliminated the demand for the labor, thus eliminating the draw. If you don't want hungry people to keep comign for food....quit feeding them! The problem was we looked the other way because we needed some of the labor(not all, but some) Rather than reforming the system, we looked the other way, used the labor, and reaped the benefits, untill it created a mess full of consequences for all. Then we decided to scapegoat the little guys.
Where did you get that information??
no, I haven't and neither has yellow sun. how does she know that the people detained came here to ship money home. You cannot paint the whole group with one brush. Many people who are here without documents are just as entwined in our communities as anyone else. I did say usually, and I should have added in my experience.
It doesn't excuse anything. Nor does it excuse our governments inability to take action and ammend a very broken system to make a more reasonable program that does not continue to perpetuate this very complex problem.
He is not a criminal. He commited a civil infraction. I am hardly ashamed to marry a upstanding man who is nothing but a wonderful human being simply because he crossed over a border. We would love nothing more than to make it right and wait in line to legalize the proper way, the problem is that once a person accumulates illegal presence they are ineligible for any visa.
I am not condoning illegal immigration, but the system was set up to encourage it. My husband was recruited by the manager of a US factory. Many are far more to blame.
I do not think that my entire family should be banished to a country where they do not even speak the language because he crossed the border nearly 15 years ago. This punishment does not fit the crime.
Again....there is no line!!
Well-educated definately helps. I am not sure how being wealthy would get you a visa other than investing or being able to buy into an American company. If the person were wealthy or well-educated in a highly skilled profession it is not fair to compare it to the situtation of someone who came to work as a laborer. You can't so well I did it, so they should be able to also because it is a different set of circumstances.
I am very informed. There are ways for skilled workers and family members to immigrate. There is also a visa lottery for select countries. There are not ways for a person or family who want to come work in a labor type job to immigrate here. If you are so very informed, please tell me what type of visas a couple in a Latin American country should apply for if they wish to legally immigrate in order to work a factory, or labor intensive job. My father's family was able to immigrate here from Europe in the 50's with no special skills or family ties. This is not the case anymore. I suggest you check out this link.
http://www.reason.org/immigrationchart.pdf or even USCIs's homepage for more information.
You have no idea why they were here. Do you get up everyday to "further the good of America" or just to do as they are doing and be a productive human being making the best of yourself. If they come for money to ship back home, they usually leave rather quickly. Many, however, have made a life for themselves here and are spending their $$ the same as anyone else is. They love their families the same as you love yours.
You tell me how a "working man" from Mexico can come here legally to work without having an immediate qualifying family member here and I would be delighted to share that method with many a family looking to come to the US for work.
If you are here illegally, working, paying taxes, raising a family, a part of the community just as much as your neighbor who was born here....there is still no way to become a legal citizen or get "work documentation". Your illegal presence makes you ineligible.
Unlike your wife, my husband came from another country illegally. He did not take the cheap or easy route. He took an expensive and dangerous route, the only route available to a young hard working Mexican teenager asked to cross the border to provide for his family. Unfortunately, he broke civil laws in doing so. He is now an illegal, productive, tax-paying member of the United States. (and the proud father of my children.) He illegally earns a paycheck to support our family, coaches t-ball, drives carpool, participates in the PTA, and does not work for substandard wages. He cannot however pursue his dream of acquiring legal status in the country he loves and the only country my children and I know.
What type of visa did you enter the U.S. on?? If you are a citizen already you must have been a resident for a while.
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