What Part of Legal Immigration Don’t You Understand?
December 19, 2008 by Border Explorer
Sincere people ask about so-called “illegal immigrants”:
Answer: There is no legal way provided for the typical undocumented worker to undertake our jobs in construction, yard work, agriculture, housekeeping, etc. legally.
Eight years ago when my stepson married a European woman, I learned that laws had changed since my 8th grade civics classes! She was by no means an automatic U.S. citizen. Impoverished and illiterate laborers have about as much chance of winning the lottery as they would gaining the “green card” needed to legally do our work.
If you’re not current on immigration law, the chart from Reason Magazine provided a cheat sheet on how to become a citizen. Due to it’s small size, even if you click to embiggen this graphic, it is still small. You’ll want to check out the original on the Reason website, which enlarges nicely. Even better, download it onto your own hard drive for a good look.
Then you can hand a copy to the next person who asks you: “Why don’t they enter the U.S. LEGALLY?!?
reprint from Reason Magazine
Crossposted at Border Explorer.
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I’m not a big fan of illegal or legal immigration to the USA, but I’d be willing to cut any kind of deal with the pro-immigration folk if we could get rid of the law that grants automatic citizenship to the freshly plopped newborn of a “guest” to this country. It made sense when it was written, but the future abuse wasn’t forseen.
We need to take a good look at every aspect of the immigration system. It is broken–not meeting the needs of our current milieu. Politicians seem fearful of the topic–a hot potato to be avoided.
You are correct, BE, there is no one right answer to all of this, but our “leadership” in Washington has pointedly avoided all of this. The prevailing gutlessness in the face of a difficult issue is really telling about the character of those who are charged with serving the best interests of all of us, just as they have been asleep at the switch in terms of all of the financial mismanagement going on.