JuanSorano61 said:
Dear All,
My father, Juan, has been posting several messages on here and he just shared some of them with me. I am now compelled to write on behalf of my dad and all others out there, who are desperately wanting blanket amnesty fro the U.S. Government.
There is absolutely no concrete evidence posted here that granting blanket amnesty to all undocument immigrants will slow down the processing of your immigration benefits. In fact, no where in the proposal bill does it say, "the processing of permanent residence for undocument immigrants should be prioritzed before the legal immigrants".
My father is a hard working man. He has made tremendous sacrifice to come here. He still works two jobs, while managing to go to a local community college to learn English. Oh, by the way, he "PAYS" for his education in full. He also files his tax with the IRS (if some of you didn't know, some undocumented do file taxes).
I frankly do not appreciate when some of you goes on the offensive and attack my father. He was simply asking for support from fellow immigrants. If you do not agree with the march, just let it be and don't attack him for his belief. He has done nothing wrong to you.
He gave me a chance to study here, and I fought all the temptations to join the gang and studied. I got accepted to the University of Illinois, but I can't get any federal aid because I do not have legal status. This, to me, is so anti-American because education is one of fundamental human rights and I am being denied this right because of my immigration status.
Blanket amnesty is badly needed. Do you honestly see the Government, rounding us up in mass and deporting us to the south of border? This is exactly what the Nazis did to the Jews back in the days. Instead of supporting political persecution of undocument immigrants, isn't it time for us to join our hands and fight for our right to live in this country?
Carlos
It was nothing personal against your father, of course.
And nothing personal against Hispanic people (as matter of facts, 25% of my blood is Argentinan and my grandfather immigrated to Italy in the 50s).
I am sure he works hard. I'm sure most of the illegal immigrants work very hard.
But guess what? I work hard too, most of the people in this country work hard, I believe.
I went to business school in Arizona in 2001. I got my student visa and got huge loans in Italy, which are still being paid and will be outstanding for a long time. In fact, I wasn't able to get a single penny from the Federal Govt in the US, being a LEGAL non-immigrant student.
After I got my mba I wanted to come back to the US and work here. I could have just stayed with my expired visa and nobody would have cought me. SSA, by mistake, gave me a social security card with no limitations on it (like "authorized to work with INS authorization only"). I could have definitely stayed and worked.
I came back to Italy, looked for a job here, found it, got a H-1B visa, paid some $4,000 for a lawyer and then I came here.
I am getting married this month with a USC who came here with her family from the former USSR when she was 10. She went through immigration legally, even though she was discriminated in her country (she is Jewish and please, don't you dare to compare illegal immigrants with the Jews killed by the Nazis).
I am going to get my green card and it will take probably years.
Honestly, if my application gets delayed, even a 10-minute delay, I will be pissed off. And even if it doesn't, I will still think that an amnesty is not right.
Amnesty won't solve the problem and illegal immigrants will keep crossing the border.......then there will be another amnesty and then another one....until the next.
I'm sorry, it's not right.