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Originally Posted by mopho
And it appears you missed the point which is that it is practically impossible to come here legally unless you get married to a citizen or have some sort of white collar job that is in demand here.
And your post #32 is a border control issue and has little to do with why people are coming here and working illegally, those criminal don't come here to work jobs.
If the govt made it easier to become a citizen it would go a long way to solve the problem and make it much easier to protect our borders because people would have have some hope of actually getting in legally and go through the proper channels, right now they don't
 I think most people that are liberal are proud of the fact, but hate when people like yourself spin it as a slur.
Now instead of continually starting these controversial threads, why don't you take your right wing agenda to some political forum, this is a car forum that is place to make new friends with a common interest, not turn us against each other and create disdain over politics  |
I assume you meant green card and not citizen. I think the problem is that most folks coming to the States now do not want to be Citizens. They just want the green card.
In the past (before the 90's or so) most people that were coming to the States wanted to become citizens. They were leaving their country to come to the land of opportunity and create roots here. Their lives and fortunes were cast with the US and they wanted to be citizens so that they could vote and participate beyond the economics. Don't get me wrong, they wanted to earn a lot of money and live the American dream as well...but they were here to stay.
Immigrants that are coming to the US to stay and lay down roots, I have no problem with. I don't believe that is what we are seeing today. I work in IT and many of my friends have green cards, but I know of very few that want to be citizens of the US. They want the money, but not anything else. FWIW.