08-14-2007, 03:17 PM | #1 |
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Last night I'm driving home from work at like 7:00
And I see a group of Latinos working their a's off - doing some landscaping. Working like the day just started. I think to myself, "Do we really want more or less people like this in our country? Illegal or not."
I go back and forth on the immigration question. |
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I want the US to overhaul their legal immigration process to allow more people to immigrate legally and to make it less difficult and time-consuming to do so.
The handful of Latinos in my branch that have immigrated legally have gone through such hell that I can easily understand why many more don't try to come in legally. A member from Ecuador had to wait 20 years after his parents and younger siblings came legally to the US before he could get approved (because he wasn't a minor at the time). Once he got in, his three daughters followed a couple of months later but his wife couldn't because of a paperwork foul-up. Now, they have been in the US for a year without their wife/mother. This is one of many reasons why people don't bother coming legally to the US. |
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Of course we want more hard working, LAW ABIDING people in our country. I agree with Indy's post, that the entire process of legal immigration needs to be overhauled, so it is not so expensive, and time consuming.
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