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Tilted Cat Head
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Location: Manhattan, NY
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Originally Posted by archetypal fool
I think what dc_dux is getting at is that you have your liberty, your country to back you up, your home, and your family. Illegal immigrants usually only have a family, and they work damn hard to earn the other things on that list, just as you have.
And for the record, no, I do not get ANYTHING for free. My parents paid the price to come here illegally (including selling everything they owned...it's not as easy as some seem to think), after they applied legally and nothing was done. They work hard and pay taxes, as they have always done. When they got the opportunity they both got naturalized, and my mother became a US citizen. I paid taxes the moment I started working and I continue to pay taxes. I've not been given ANYTHING for free since the day I was born.
You see, we aren't that much different after all.  |
I'm sorry no we aren't that much different.
My parents didn't have family here. They came here ALONE. In fact they even met here and married after 30 days. They didn't have country to back them up, they didn't have family, or even a home. My father came here with some money in his pocket and brains in his head. My mother came here with some savings and much needed skills in the healthcare industry.
See you came here illegally and by luck of the draw the magic wand was waved and your crime was "wiped away." You are fortunate, equally as fortunate as me to have been born in the United States. That is just plain luck. Life is not fair, we don't get to pick where we are born or what family circumstances will surround us. No that's just luck of the draw.
No my parents did not come here illegally. Other family members did not do that. They waited YEARS to come here, being petitioned over and over by various family members until they were finally approved.
In my opinion if I were to rob someone and take that money and buy lottery tickets and win millions of dollars, ALL that winnings is tainted by the fact that it was born of something illegal. So again, you are fortunate that something happened to make you legitimate and eventually a citizen. That's wonderful, but for those still out there as illegals everything they do in my opinion is tainted by the false premise and pretense they started here with, committing the crime of immigrating here illegally.
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