Europe and Muslim Immigrants

[Benton]

(03-15-2016, 06:03 PM)StLucieBengal Wrote: Legal immigration isn't that difficult.   Does it cost money..... Yes.    It costs for a reason....  It ensures people are serious.  

 

And it should. The only question is how much is equitable.

The whole 'send us your masses yearning to be free' didn't say 'send us your doctors and engineers.' My great-grandfather was a German immigrant who left Germany because he didn't like the way the country was heading. He was an uneducated guy with nothing. He turned it into a successful business. Every day we have people who travel thousands of miles and come here without knowing anyone or having a job, just the clothes on their backs. I'd say that was a serious commitment.

Quote:I don't understand why anyone favors these freeloaders who snuck into this country like thieves in the night.    They could easily have come in the right way.    


 

Two things.

1. Freeloaders is dishonest. Some are. But the majority are working, paying taxes and trying to contribute. They just don't know how.

2. Immigration funding has been cut for years and the process made more difficult. It's not an easy things for someone on limited means.

Quote:My wife came here the right way. ...  She even had to go home before we could get it finished.     That's additional money we paid ....  But it was important for us to get it done the correct and legal way.     It would have been a whole lot cheaper for her to go to Mexico then cry about it later and try and demonstrate how great we are for the community and economy despite knowingly breaking the law.      
 

Great. Now if we can only get you to handle the other 10-20 million illegal immigrants, plus the millions backlogged, that would be great.

You've got a lot of work ahead of you. If you can have that done by Tuesday, that's be great.

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The reason immigration sticks in my crawl is because it is a pain to jump through the hoops only to see someone try and skirt the process.    

 

When the process is broken, people will find a way around it.

Quote: Let's not even get into the nonsense from Obama that allows Muslims to use the k-1 visa without even meeting their wife or husband.... Or showing any sort of history of a relationship.

https://www.uscis.gov/iframe/ilink/docView/SLB/HTML/SLB/0-0-0-1/0-0-0-11261/0-0-0-17197/0-0-0-18881.html

Obama was president in 2001 when the exemption was added? The guy's served, what, 15 years now?



And if you follow immigration at all, you know the exemption is a very, very rare thing. It's not granted to Muslims or any other religions specifically, only to ethnic groups where it's custom and even then, only where they can prove they have an extreme hardship that prevents them from meeting. It's not just a blanket "hey, me and Explosive Annie want to get married, but she's afraid of flying."