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Dr. DeMarche: Visiting Permanently and Other Things I Dont Understand
This is in regards to the Amnesty program for illegals..The United States government now employs an untold number of people who are either responsible for enforcing immigration policy or supporting those who do, ranging from Consular Officers in far flung places to immigration inspectors in airports and border patrol agents combing the arid deserts. Tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of people obey the law year in and year out while they wait in their home country for their chance to immigrate to America. All of these people, it seems, are fools. Imagine that you are a Filipino, and that it has always been your dream to emigrate to America (or as the Dept. of State web site frames it "visiting permanently"), and that over twenty years ago your sister became an American citizen and filed an application for you to get a visa (visas for Filipinos are now available for "Brothers and Sisters of Adult Citizens" who had applications filed on their behalf in 1983). You have been waiting all these years, perhaps not so patiently, but obeying U.S. immigration law nevertheless. Today you turn on the news to find that the government of the United States is considering a bill to allow those in the U.S. illegally to remain there, if they pay a small fine and back taxes. They might even have a shot at U.S. citizenship, but don't worry, it is not an amnesty. (By the way, no matter how much spin the White House puts on it, to the rest of the world this is an amnesty program.) What might your possible reaction be? Would it perhaps be enough to push you into the local anti-American camp? visit and see his other points... Posted by: 3dc 2006-04-13 |
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