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Since when did it become popular to be "illegal"?

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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	[quote] [b]At0mic_PC said:[/b] Wouldn't they have an even better life if they became legal US citizens? [/quote] Yeah, sounds great. Until reality comes back into the picture. The road to citizenship for the average illegal immigrant, through the standard legal process, is obviously something that a great many people would love to do. It is also pretty clear that a huge number of them choose the risk of entering and living illegally instead. Why do you think this might be? 1) There are limits on the number of people who can legally immigrate into the US. There are limits to the number of people who can enter the country on work visas, on educational visas, etc (and of course, if you are here on an educational visa, you cannot work, so you better be quite rich!). Becoming an actual citizen, even for those people, is still a very long process. 2) If you have no money, no exisiting family here, forget it. 3) If a person is willing to risk death to get here, live a limited, dangerous, uncertain life while here, in fear of being deported, unable to improve their lives beyond a certain point, what does that tell you about their situation, and about the options open to them? Do you imagine that there are 'become a US citizen' schools, welcoming all of Mexico's poor and desperate, teaching them english, filling out forms, prepping them? [quote] [b]At0mic_PC said:[/b] Maybe some of the students that were skipping class to protest will get jobs and then realize what 25% or so of the amount held from their check goes to. [/quote] You mean like - oh, building roads, schools, hospitals, armies, medicare, and the multitude of other things our taqxes go to? Or are you suggesting that all of our tax dollars are somehow spent because of illegal immigrants? [quote] [b]At0mic_PC said:[/b] I work so I don't have time to go protest things. [/quote] So.....working eliminates time for the things that are important to a person? Funny...I work too. I bet everyone else posting here does too. Do you think maybe it's just you? :confused: . Sounds like you are in desperate need of a good dose of reality, atomic... FWIW [url=http://in-dented.com/sigs.html][img]http://in-dented.com/sigs/knot_sig_32.gif[/img][/url] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/163]DL-44[/url] on 05-19-2006 01:40)[/small] Loading...
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