Originally posted by 99blacksesport:
Originally posted by sigma:

Because if your family would have tried to come in now they wouldn't be allowed in. They obviously didn't possess the skills or earning power that the government now requires immigrants to possess.



So whats the solution to the problem? Let them all in because there is a chance one or more could be productive?

I agree it's too tough as is to get into the U.S. but thats the state of affairs we put ourselves in. If there weren't 11 million illegals in the country, maybe we could stand to make the procedures a little more lax?[



No, I'm not saying that they should all be allowed in. But the overall resounding message throughout all this crap the past few months is that most of these people want to be here legally. But for a variety of reasons they cannot. Some can't afford the lawyer fees, some can't afford to always be near an INS office, few can meet the overly restrictive basic income requirements, some just flat-out don't know how to do it, and some probably can't pass a background check (and they shouldn't be allowed in here).

We need to allow people in that want to be here as long as they're not massive drains on the economy. But we need to maintain national security as well. We don't need to be lining the pockets of tens of thousands of immigration lawyers for exhorbitant fees for simple paperwork and we don't need a process that takes years and years the complete for no reason at all other than the fact that it justifies the jobs of 25,000 INS employees shuffling some paperwork back and forth.

There's a line somewhere between an Ellis Island Open Door, (which is why all of 'our' families are legal, it was basically impossible to not be legal sine all you had to do was sign your name), and a decade of paperwork and enough MUCH-needed money to send your child to college in our great nation and give your next generation a head-start in life.

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