Uhh excuse me, but I beg to differ. The "system" is not only a set of laws, but a set of intentions. That's exactly why you are denied permanent residency if it is found out that you only married to gain the status. The law is that you need to be married, but the intention is that you are honestly married, and it seeks to allow families to stay together.
And the ones who were granted PR proved that. If you claim that they just "worked the system" can you prove it? CIS decided differently, that the marriage (to use your own example) was genuine, end of discussion.
We all know that O.J. Simpson is a cold blooded criminal, but the Court decided he's not...end of discussion. Cheap talk in a public forum is not going to put O.J. in jail, neither put in the same boat the legal residents who "worked the system" with the border jumpers who are breaking the law.
Certainly this working of the system is illegal, because your intentions do not fit the intentions of the law.
Obeying the law and playing by the rule is illegal
Then what's legal in your opinion ...if anything...
How can no one see the similarity in this and people simply walking over the border?
Because isn't any, as simple as that.
Not to mention that the one who get visas, are checked before they are approved, the ones who run (they don't walk) over the border, nobody check them, they can be criminals, drug dealers, terrorists, etc.
Please. Don't try to explain away the "legal" status of many immigrants.
Most are just doing what they have to do to get what they want or need.
And what do you expect them to do more than that
Respecting the law and playing by the rules imposed by the CIS is not enough for you...but on the other hand the "border-jumpers" are OK
To me you don't make much sense, and I believe you have a hidden agenda if you insist with this nonsense
If it were up to me, I wouldn't send 11 million people home who probably have US born citizen children here.
Oh, this is your point, let's not send them back home, and maybe since they didn't "work the system", they should be awarded a prize too
I would tighten up the borders, and devise a plan that would
put them on a path to legal residency.
And do you think this is fair for the other millions and millions waiting to jump the border
What about for the ones who wait for years to be approved outside of the U.S.???
Do you know that an American mother (originally from Philippines) is waiting for 13+ years to see her daughter...and she "worked the system" but the visa is not current yet If she was Mexican...all the family was here long time ago, including the neighbors, the neighbors of the neighbors...with their dog too...