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it cost me $50,000 dollars
Originally posted by Night Star
Enjoy the same rights? They have more rights than citizens do! If we break the law, we go to jail. If illegals come here and break the law it's ok.
Look at everything that you and your wife had to go through. You did the right thing. Illegals break the law just by coming here and stealing social security numbers and paying for false documents. They get rewarded?
Originally posted by LeTan
My dad and I had to go through 6 months of hell to escape Vietnam to get to the USA. Countless paper work, years of living in camps to wait for acceptance. When we got here, we had to work just as hard to get everything we have now, and that is a struggeling life. We pay our taxes so that our "roads" and "infrastructure" can be maintained. I pay for my tuition and some semesters, I can't even afford it. Most of my family still remains in Vietnam, my mother lost on the journey here. I have made my sacrifices to become a US citizen and a hard working one at that. Why should someone be able to cut in line of me when I have passed through the roughest storm and am still lost at sea?
[edit on 19-1-2009 by LeTan]
Originally posted by Doomsday 2029
Originally posted by Night Star
Enjoy the same rights? They have more rights than citizens do! If we break the law, we go to jail. If illegals come here and break the law it's ok.
Look at everything that you and your wife had to go through. You did the right thing. Illegals break the law just by coming here and stealing social security numbers and paying for false documents. They get rewarded?
#1. My wife came forward and said: "okay I'm illegal"... The penelty was she had to go back to Mexico for One Year and wait for the court to make a decision. We did this.
#2. When I say enjoy the same rights... let me clarify... I'm not speaking for ALL Illegals in general... I mean the ones that have already built a life here in the U.S. and can proove that they have been living here for 10+ years and have broken no laws. Those are the people that I'm defending. Why would I defend them for breaking the law in the first place you might ask? for crossing our border? Because Mexico so F'ed up to begin with that I'd do the same thing.
#3. If today's economy in the USA kept repeating it's self like Groundhog Day (just the economy) you'd find many Mexicans going back to where they came from... I know a few that did just that because the economy in America is no greater than the economy in Mexico (as of now).
Originally posted by Doomsday 2029
Who else is going to be dumb enough to work for the Military Civilian Force..
I now realize that the government needs a whole new group of DUMB (and yes I said it) PEOPLE to take advantage of.
Originally posted by falucho05
They deserve it and I applaud it. I am so glad if a bill like this passes. First of all, those immigrants are no less than you. I understand the tediousness that immigrants had to pass by the Bush Administration. However, Obama is another person, and I would like to see those 12 million people become residents and eventually citizens, as us they have to pay the same bills, work the same way, and it's even harder for them as they cannot even drive a CAR! C'mon, if you're a LEGAL resident and talk # about illegals I hope next time you renew you get kicked out! Why is it that us as Americans must be welcomed everywhere with open arms? When we are soooo strict with our immigration policies. There is enough of everything for everyone. Also, immigration didn't cause the economic mess there is now. So, you envious and stupid brats don't be so self conceited. Because of your egoism is that this country is going down. Where is America the land of freedom??
Originally posted by GhostR1der
When will people wake up, unlock their gun cupboard and march on this out of control government?!?! It has betrayed the will of the people SIX TIMES NOW. Hopefully more people will go do some 'target practice' at the border to send a clear message.
Build a fence, instead of a NAFTA superhighway.