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Originally Posted by dogzilla
My father in law married moved to Mexico. married someone from Mexico and completed the process for her to get legal immigration status. My brother in law someone from the former USSR who also went thru the legal immigration process. Why should someone be able to jump ahead in line because the legal process is 'too difficult'? They should complete the legal immigration process just like the others did.
Nobody has the right to sneak across the border illegally because life is too hard in their own country.
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Actually, the fastest way to immigrate is to marry a US citizen (no limit on immigrant visas for foreign nationals married to US citizens; other immigrant visas based on family, work, and the like are heavily limited ). For people who are not married to a US citizen, the wait time to become eligible to immigrate can be as long as 18 years. So, it's not really fair to compare those two anecdotal spouses to your average Mexican. (Source: Visa Bulletin:
Visa Bulletin for March 2010)
IMHO, the immigrations system could use some reform.
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The illegal immigrant now gets legal status.
Since the newly legal immigrant is most likely working a low paying job that no American would want, he now has to buy health insurance. But since his income is too low, he gets a government subsidy.
Unemployment remains around 10% and the unemployed guy gets his unemployment extended again because the job market is so bad.
And everybody lived happily ever after, except for the long suffering middle class taxpayer who sees his taxes go up again to pay for this nonsense.
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Where do you get this info from? I have to date YET to see an illegal immigrant get status simply because he is in the United States, or has worked here for too long. The Gov't got rid of things like that in 1986. In contrast with many other modernized Western nation, American immigration law is actually harsher than your average industrialized nation...Please, for everyone's sake, try not to spread too much disinformation.