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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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Tex's comment could have been more accurately worded, but I took it to be a crticism of illegal immigration becaseu there is no screening. IOW, if we make legal immigration easier and faster and make illegal immigration more difficult, it will be easier for us to keep persons with criminal histories out of the country.
Of course, if you want to look for rascism, I suppose you can find it there, but I didn't see it as being intended.
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