Originally posted by TourDeForce:
You're talking about becoming a citizen. How many of the illegals are interested in doing that now that they're here?

Let's get back to why they are here. Money. They can come here & earn their keep with a work visa. Much easier to come by than you think & often sponsored by agro business. It would not be terribly difficult for them to be here legally AND earn the money they need AND work toward becoming a citizen. They simply choose not to go through the effort - Most likely because of the curruption south of the border, not because of obstacles set up by the US.




Absolutely incorrect.

I'm talking about becoming a "resident" not a citizen. Becoming a resident is the only legal way to permanently establish yourself as a worker in the US. Becoming a citizen, as I mentioned, is in addition to the steps and costs I outlined.

And you can't get a work visa to be a migrant worker or any other relatively low-end job. H1B work visas are only given to skilled workers of very specific speciality occupations or students, not relatively unskilled agricultural workers. If you go to the border and say "I'm a migrant ag worker and want to apply for a Work Visa" you'll be laughed back to Mexico.

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