Im guessing how many of you would sponsor an immigrant?

Question

wishing to come here legally...some people on here are really vocal about coming here legally so how many of you would sponsor an immigrant wishing to first get a green card and then get their citizenship...

How many of you would take off a days work to help assist an immigrant or go over to their place and practice English with them so they can learn faster? Any takers or you guys just love to double standard immigrants...

this question is particular to the hardliners such as fedup, ms LA, dizney, anon, me2, outrageous

how many of you would be willing to volunteer at a church to help immigrants learn English or sponsor them through the paperwork?

for the record, I did volunteer at an ESE place to get a scholarship for college

Well thank you everyone for being honest but I am a little surprised to see the answers to say the least.

I thought you guys were great advocates for legal immigration but I can see now that you dont care whether people come here legally or not, its just an excuse....

Suze, I agree with what you are saying but then dont you also agree with me that its not easy for anyone to try to raise a new life in a new country and shouldn't be shunned upon if they are not able to cope as well as others? Everyone is different and I feel there is a lot of double standards towards immigrants both legal an illegal.

it doesnt matter if they are a millionaire from Germany or a refugee seeker from the West Bank...there are different customs and different standards here and people shouldnt be alienated because they dont fit into the current staus quo they should be encouraged but not alienated in a derogatory or a hateful way like some people are doing now...

Answer 1

Ehh, you don't just decide and go sponsor an alien with their green card. If you have any sense of how it is done, you wouldn't have asked this question. There are demanding requirements for both the apllicants and the sponsors. For example, many apllicants already had to take English classes(on their own dimes) and pass difficult test that I doubt you would be able to pass. Many of them already have valuable skills(other than cleaning houses, picking fruits and vegies and mowing the lawn!!!) that would greatly benefit or improve the society (nurses, physicians, technicians, teachers, scholars and researchers...etc),that made them eligible for the petition. if any business who wants to sponsor a worker, would have to have at least $40,000 TO $50,000 "PROFIT" reported to IRS annually from their business. And the business can't just be any pops and moms shop at the corner.
As far as this
"Taking days off and go over to the alien's place and practice English with them so they learn faster......" goes,
I think, and anyone with a common sense between their skull would agree, is a good example of blurring/mistaking charity with individual's responsibility. If the aliens would need all that spoon-feeding and hand-holding, it shows clearly that they are not ready to live or work in a foreign country. And it's never anyone but the aliens' own responsibility to prepare themselves. The aliens are responsible to catch every single chance they get to practice, make mistakes, and improve from the mistakes. I found your reasoning quite simplistic minded and plain wrong (You don't keep blaming others for "not doing their home work with your kids" if you want to take care of your children's weaknesses in their school work)
Plus, there are already agencies and private businesses that cater to those who need such help.

Answer 2

If I owned a business, I would be more than willing to sponsor an immigrant if they were capable of doing a job as good as or better than their American counterpart.

On languages, I volunteer at an elementary school for a scholarship where they have several children from ESE homes. They same pretty intent on learning English and from what the teacher says, the parents want them to learn English.

Personally I find the sponsoring process to be problematic because its inefficient and never will meet demand. I say let the immigrants enter and find work.

Answer 3

I can honestly say I dont know, depending on the circumstance, but I have helped a friend of mine that is an immigrant get accustomed to this country so I helped a little.

Funny thing though, yesterday I saw a question that went something like "are the immigrants of today the worst kind ever(legal)" and the majority of people said yeah they all need to go back. So much for "all legal all welcome"

Answer 4

I wouldn't. But then I'm a married mother with 3 kids (which is where most of my money goes), studying at uni, working, and I have a volunteer job on top of that. I might be persuaded to met once or twice a week with someone who wanted to learn English on a one on one basis though).

The best I can do is help you out with the paperwork, I'm getting fairly fluent in British/Australian immigration law. ^_^

Answer 5

Well, Spider Pig, if a legal immigrant wanted help in learning English, I'd do it. They would have to come to me as I am not well and unable to travel at this time! But English was my major and I love to diagram sentences, etc. They'd know what a participle and a pronoun is when I got done! Verbs and adverbs and they'd be able to congugate the "be" verb properly, too! Many Americans don't know all of this but I will share my knowledge with a good hearted legal immigrant, I'd love to change someone's life with giving them good communication skills! They'll also have to be very graceful as I can't have someone pulling my pic line out by accident!

Answer 6

I absolutely would. If the process is as difficult as it's starting to sound then, why not help make it all legal? I'm not much of a teacher...God only knows how long it would take to learn a language from me! I'm actually clueless as to what sponsoring entails but given the opportunity I would do what I could, yes. So...how does one do something like that?

Answer 7

I don't have money but if one were coming here legally, I would help in other ways. I actually helped a few immigrants learn English back when I was in school.

Answer 8

I do think they should come here legally, however I have never said that one nickel of MY money nor one minute of MY time should be spent to assist in that immigration.

Why should I pay either in time or money? Immigration does not benefit ME in any way. I would like to only have enough immigration to have a stable population - how ever many that number would be.

We do not need less open space.

We do not need more people with their hands out for social services as we have enough lazy Americans already.

We do not need more pollution.

We do not need to pay for new schools to keep up with the fastest growing population in this countries history.

We do not need more shortages of fresh water.

We do not need higher gasoline, electricity & natural gas prices because our population will be at 400 million in about 20 years.

We do not need immigration at all. It is only through our largess that any are allowed in at all.




Let them all pay their own way.

Answer 9

I've already sponsored 5. All are here now. All are legal. Three are naturalized citizens and the other two have green cards.

Answer 10

You mean to tell me that the only recourse we have to eliminating Illegal immigrants is for each one of us to personally sponsor one?

WHY should we be required to change our life to accommodate someone breaking the law?

Did you calculate the amount of gas and value our time is worth in doing this? Is it USA's obligation to do this for every Illegal? Do you not think that this might encourage a stampede to our borders if they knew the US population was willing to help any and all illegals?

OK, so there's 12-30 million of them. HOW many HELPERS are needed to assist them and their illegal families?

Crunch all the numbers, then pose an amicable solution. Most of us realize the enormity of the problem, but you need to consider that this guarantees their receiving unlimited economic aid from our social programs until such time as they are "ready" (or willing) to fully subside as law-abiding taxpaying CITIZENS of the USA like we are. How much time have you calculated each individual would need?

Am I forgetting anything?

See, I'm not willing to help anyone come here and live forever
as Mexicans, Pakistanis, Germans, Cubans, Chinese...
I'm willing to help those who want to become CITIZENS of the USA. Not the ones who wish to remain here changing our country into catering to their national language. Sadly, those numbers can be counted on 1 hand.
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