Political Nevada

Immigration

There seems to be two thoughts on immigration, “kick ‘em all out of the country” or allow those that are already living here “a path toward citizenship”.
The kick ‘em out group seems to feel that if a person is here illegally it is because they entered the country illegally,knowingly.

The problem with putting all the “Illegals” in one bag is that there is more than one reason why a person is an illegal alien in this country.

Below are several examples of illegals:

1. People are issued a three-year visa to live and to work in this country, they are required to renew every three years, but they forget and the visa expires, now they are afraid that if they go to renew they will be deported. Because of their visa they were setup to pay taxes on the money they make, and since they own a house they pay property taxes. Therefore they were legal, now they are illegal, but they are paying their fair share of the income and property taxes.

2. What about the young man or woman who was brought to this country as a child, but never knew they weren’t really citizens of this country. They have gone to an American Elementary School, Junior High School, and High School, even some college and are now in their 20′s. At some point they found out that they are illegal, what should they do, this is the only country they ever knew.They have been paying their income taxes and property taxes as well.

3. The college student who was in this country legally, as a student, when their visa runs out and like the person with the work visa, they forget to renew. They do the same as the three-year visa immigrant, they remain in this country and try not to get in trouble. Perhaps while they were in college they met someone and fell in love, even got married, and had children. What are their options?

4. Many “illegals” have married American citizens and have children from that marriage.

For many that are in those four categories, there is only one solution, they have to turn themselves into the Federal authorities.

The scenario works like this:
They get an Immigration Attorney or an Immigration specialist, who helps them fill out all sorts of paperwork which is then submitted to the INS for scrutiny. Then they wait for an interview with Immigration, which usually takes several months, but may even take a few years. Next, once the interview is over they have to wait several more months until they receive notice that they are to be relocated to their original country. They wait for another few months until they are picked up and placed on a bus(assuming they are being deported to Mexico). Now they must wait until some bureaucrat decides to look at their file; once the file is looked at it is now sent to the FBI who might or might not look into the situation right away. When they do they run a complete check on that person and once the check is finished, they might inform that immigrant of their findings immediately, or might have the information sitting on someone’s desk(until the immigrant’s attorney requests information as to why the 12 months limit is past) at which time that person is now allowed back into the only country they have known.
By the time the process is completed several years has gone by.

There should be other ways to complete the process, especially when that immigrant fits into one of the four scenarios listed above, because that person lived and went to school in only a limited number of places.

Change the process, make it more realistic, less bureaucratic, and there would by more “illegal immigrants” becoming legal.

These anti-immigrants who are ranting and raving about the illegals in this country have no connection to reality, they need to blame someone for their problems, blame makes them feel so superior.