Do not be fooled and do not fool yourself.
Dago_Red, I had the same thought as you do and followed all the rules. During the years, I saw people who were denied temporary visitor visas based on groundless suspicion held by those visa officers that they would immigrate to the US. On the other hand, I saw tons of people who granted the visas broke laws and extended illegal stays in the US. The difference I saw was the previous group of people respects the US so much that they so closely followed the rules and were also honest. However, the latter group does not care about anything ... they cheat and violate laws without any hesitation. Respecting the law has never been in their mind. Their thought is "it does not matter, there will be an amnesty, worst scenario I would never be here again". This blunt disrespect of laws manifests itself in recent illegal demonstrations. I read in one of the articles, the illegal said something like "I will come back again if I get departed".
So do not get fooled any more and most importantly do not fool yourself and others.
Dago_Red, I had the same thought as you do and followed all the rules. During the years, I saw people who were denied temporary visitor visas based on groundless suspicion held by those visa officers that they would immigrate to the US. On the other hand, I saw tons of people who granted the visas broke laws and extended illegal stays in the US. The difference I saw was the previous group of people respects the US so much that they so closely followed the rules and were also honest. However, the latter group does not care about anything ... they cheat and violate laws without any hesitation. Respecting the law has never been in their mind. Their thought is "it does not matter, there will be an amnesty, worst scenario I would never be here again". This blunt disrespect of laws manifests itself in recent illegal demonstrations. I read in one of the articles, the illegal said something like "I will come back again if I get departed".
So do not get fooled any more and most importantly do not fool yourself and others.