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| Illegaly Legal |
| 10.11.04 |
The Washington Times reports that President George W. Bush again intends to push through a "bid to legalize illegal aliens." This push would give illegal immigrants a chance to become legal and to hold jobs legally.
My wife is a permanent resident from Brasil. We have paid over $1000 to go through the paperwork for her to be here the legal way. She applied for and paid for a visa and we have gone to the Tampa INS (now BCIS) office many, many times to meet the necessary requirements to be doing things legally. We waited in lines for hours (although they have improved the process by making it by appointment only) and faced some rude workers- including a guard who had a major chip on his shoulder. It was only by the grace of God that he and I didn't have words because of how he was treating people. We filled out form after form and had to put up with a misspelling by the INS. They spelled my wife's name LoiNana instead of Loiana. We had to turn in the card and never received a new one. Even though it was their mistake we had to go through many hoops and she had to rely on a stamp in her Brazilian passport to prove her legal status. The customs agents gave her a hard time when she returned from Brasil (the last time because I was not there, and I was LIVID). Fionally now she has had her conditions dropped and she is (hopefully) less than six months away from receiving her Permanent Residence card. She is eligible for citizenship before that time is complete.
My point is, that we went through all this to be doing things legally. Now there is an effort to allow criminals (broke the law- international law by entering our nation illegally) to have a free pass. At the very least they should have to face twice what we did and pay twice as much. |
posted by pregador27 @ 09:32   |
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