Am I the only person that has noticed that most Americans have no clue ....?

Question

what it is like to live in a foreign country, and how hard (some cases impossible) to come legally into the US?

how do you tie 8 children to you? and is that considered abuse?

Answer 1

Americans who are born here have never had to deal with immigration. They're the lucky ones. I never had to deal with it until I married a Venezuelan girl and we began the process to get her a green card. Immigration is a mess, worse than the IRS. We've just about completed the process but it's an ordeal I wouldn't wish on anyone.
I've also lived in another country and have had to deal with immigration as an immigrant.

Answer 2

I have been to many foreign countries and would be able to survive in most that I have visited. I don't know all the ins and outs of trying to come to the US legally because I was born here but my wife and millions of other people have managed to enter the legal way. It is not a matter of how hard it is or how long it takes that is irrelevant the law is there for the protection of this country. How hard was it for the Americans that have fought the wars, developed the land, wrote the Constitution and done the other jobs that makes this country what it is. There has been lots of blood, sweat, and tears pored into building this great country and it would not be right to just allow it to be destroyed.

Answer 3

Of course most of us have no clue, I have never lived in another country I have visited many, but as for living no. Sorry it is so hard for people to come to this country legally but hey, we have to have some sort of standing laws. I'm not for an open door policy, seems like that is what you are getting at. Boo hoo boo hoo, stop whining. I guess I should go whine because I was born to a poor family and yes I mean poor better yet po. Leaky roof, cold winters, and hot summers, waking up hungry and going to bed hungry I've seen it all. I'm tired of immigrants think that all Americans for some reason are well off and don't know what it means to be hungry or to need or want for something. Get freaking real!!!!!!

Answer 4

If you're trying to make an argument for immigration, you have a good point, but it doesn't really matter. No matter how difficult life is anywhere in the world, we can't just allow people to flood in illegally and take advantage of our public schools, government housing, and our health care system. My dad immigrated to the U.S. legally, and so have several other families that I know, and they had no trouble. They pay taxes like everyone else and support their families without taking advantage of the country.

Answer 5

I have seen alot of the world, and yes i've seen just how hard the living in some countrys is. But if coming here was as hard as is being said, no one would ever come here legally, in most cases they do not want to paper work nor the time, or is it that most would not pass the backround check ?

Answer 6

I am a US citizen living in very poor conditions in Argentina to be with my wife. We are currently going through the process, which is very complex and if things go well, it will have taken about a year since the wedding to get the visa... I can describe in great detail exactly how difficult it is and how the immigration system, even for relatives of US citizen, gives preference to (actually it's practically exclusive to) people who are wealthy... everyone else has to either live in limbo for long periods of time, like me, and I can only accomplish that because my father is signing the legal obligation to make sure my immigrant wife receives a poverty plus 10% income. If it weren't for his signing those papers, I would have to live and work in the united states WITHOUT MY WIFE for a fiscal year, at least. This is completely unacceptable. Anyway, I would agree that most Americans have no clue what the immigration process is like, but it's not something that's easy to find out... even when you're going through the process, for us it required months of research to figure out what to do, without hiring an expensive immigration attorney. By the way, the person who says her grandmother or whoever came over with 8 kids tied to her and stuff... that would be impossible for her to do today. In order to bring those eight kids today, she would have to live in the U.S. for at least one fiscal year WITHOUT those children and show tax forms proving she earned a very high wage that year and sign an affidavit of support, which would make her legally responsible for making sure none of those children EVER took advantage of any publicly-funded government support programs, or the government would sue her.


I would also like to point out that the developed countries currently suffering immigration problems have earned it by failing to regulate industry and continuing to buy products which exploit the people of other nations. This is the cause of the humanitarian crises leading to these fluxes of immigration, they are fleeing from artificial poverty which was caused by the irresponsibility of the developed world, and now they are suffering the consequences. There are worse repercussions, but they will be slower to affect themselves... you will see that globalization lowers the value of all workers all over the world, and the wages and working conditions of workers in the developed world and formerly wealthy countries have stopped improving and will start to get worse.


che map, ella voto por chavez?

Answer 7

THE WHOLE IDEA IS TO CHANGE THE WAY YOUR GOVERNMENT DOES BUSINESS IF YOU ARE NOT SATISFIED WITH IT. THIS COUNTRY IS OFTEN ACCUSED OF FORCING CHANGE IN OTHER GOVERNMENTS AND WE USUALLY GET SLAPPED IN THE FACE FOR DOING IT. MY QUESTION IS, IF WE ARE DOING SUCH A BAD JOB OVER HERE, HOW COME EVERYBODY AND THEIR BROTHER WANTS TO COME HERE??? I BELIEVE YOU WOULD BE STAGGERED BY THE SHEER NUMBERS OF PEOPLE WHO IMMIGRATE TO THIS COUNTRY LEGALLY EACH YEAR. IT IS TRULY ASTOUNDING AND FAR OUTPACES ANY OTHER COUNTRY IN THE WORLD BY A LARGE MARGIN. ITS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE EASY TO COME TO THE U.S. OTHERWISE I'M CERTAIN WE WOULD BE INUNDATED WITH PEOPLE IN NO TIME....MORE THEN COULD BE ECONOMICALLY SUPPORTED BY SOCIETY. THERE ARE A LOT MORE THINGS INVOLVED IN IMMIGRATION THEN JUST WALKING ACROSS THE LINE.

Answer 8

What astonishes me even more is that they bother to open their mouths to complain about something that they don't even understand. If you have a roof over your head, and food to eat why are you possibly complaining?
Many people in North America are so spoiled, and have no idea what it is to be desperate and poor. I would hate to see what would happen to them if they were attacked and needed to take refuge south of the border.

Answer 9

Hey Marieandlucaspape: Have you ever considered moving? Nobody really cares to hear you rant and rave about where you live and how it is overpopulated with Mexicans. Pack your stuff and move. Thats all you say in all your answers. Don't like it get the H*** out!!!

Answer 10

I still don't understand why it's a good thing for millions and millions of immigrants to come to the United States illegally. Why not make it legal for anyone from anywhere to come here to live whenever they please? Is that the way it should be? Should there ever be any restrictions of any kind?