But do all immigrants deserve the amnesty?
 

I came to this country legally but stayed past my visa - therefore I'm illegal now..
I learned English, worked and paid taxes. I don't have a criminal record here nor back in my country.

My question is: do all the illegal immigrants deserve a green card? Are they going to do something positive with it? Will they give back to the country?Or will they became leeches and get into welfare as soon as they can?

I have met many immigrants who have been here for 20 years who cannot speak ANYTHING in English. I find it offensive. Back i my country, I hated when tourists didn't speak my language and I find it wrong that someone lives here for years and doesn't bother to learn English.

I think they should give priority to the immigrants who learned English. I think they are right in charging us a fine, but I doubt they will have luck with charging people back taxes; most people probably don't even remember their incomes of 2-5 years ago, imagine 10+ years ago!

I think they should create a rule that forbids people to get into welfare or file for bankruptcy within 5 years from getting the amnesty. And I think they shouldn't allow people to give green cards to their family members; that way people won't start bringing all their relatives to this country (maybe only the ones from war-torn countries should be ok).

I know I probably upset a lot of people reading this, but I am thinking about this country and I am afraid many immigrants will get into welfare, bring more people to be on welfare and the country will just be like the ones many people ran from.




Opinions?

Re: But do all immigrants deserve the amnesty?
 

no one's passing amnesty here. it's going to be a long process aimed to weed out people who don't deserve it by their standards. i.e. people who can't speak english.

Re: But do all immigrants deserve the amnesty?
 

there already is a rule that you can't get welfare for 5 years after becoming a LPR (people under CIR wouldn't even be LPRs for years), so your argument is stupid. only you deserve a green card and not others right? get over yourself.

Re: But do all immigrants deserve the amnesty?
 

i think people who are in line with a Relative Petition and who have a USC parent, should be the 1st in line.

I've been in the US since I was a week old. This year I'll turn 30. Back in 2001, my mother filed the I-130, Relative Petition on my behalf. In 2005, my mother became a USC. I, at the time, was not able to adjust my status because I had "aged-out". i turned 22, 24 days before my mother was sworn in as a USC. My case is with NVC and unfortunately the NVC is barely working on cases from 1993.

I dont feel like I should be punished because I'm trying to do it the right way.

I dont think charging back taxes is a good thing because not everyone who is illegal has worked. I've always been scared to work because of the fear of being caught and having that on my record.

I also think that you're assumption of illegals being on welfare is completely wrong. Most immigrants dont want a hand out. 38% of those on welfare are white, followed by 37% black and 17.8% are hispanic. I hate when I go grocery shopping and see someone on welfare buy like 2 cart fulls of groceries and pay with the welfare card. And most of the time, it's white people that do it.

Re: But do all immigrants deserve the amnesty?
 

Osito, I would appreciate if you could reply without making any unpolite remarks. Is that how people from your country do? Insult people when they are mad? Just rude.

I wasn't aware of this rule about not getting in welfare, so that's great and no, that does not make my argument stupid, it just means I was misinformed about it, learn the difference.

I deserve the green card because I want to give back to the country, by getting a better job and I learned their language and respect their customs. I find it wrong that people who never bothered to learn English (and I have seem many whom gave me a dirty look just because I didn't speak their language) should get green card when there are MANY free school that teach ESL. 2 miles from my house there are two; 5 miles from my house there are about 5 and yes, I worked and managed to go to school.

Atsila, the amnesty will take a long time, that's for sure, but Obama seems to be ready to do whatever the hell he wants and the Republicans realized they have to be nice to Hispanics, who are the majority of the illegal immigrants in this country too, so that's why they want to pass the bill.

Re: But do all immigrants deserve the amnesty?
 

Holy shit, I overstayed aswell does that mean I'm a legal immigrant aswell!?!?!?!?

Re: But do all immigrants deserve the amnesty?
 

If you have "Amnesty" in your vocabulary as a dreamer, you're gonna have a bad time..

Re: But do all immigrants deserve the amnesty?
 

f**k yea dude! But we'll soon be legal, yay Obamaaaaa

Re: But do all immigrants deserve the amnesty?
 

I don't know what a USC is, but I will check it out. Never heard of it :?
I think you read me wrong, I said that AFTER some immigrants get the green card, they will apply for welfare. They cannot do that now, of course. That worries me because imagine if another 1-5 million people get into welfare? Many Americans will HATE immigrants.

I think if everyone paid a $1000 dollars fee, it would be really nice for the country. Back taxes...that won't happen.

Re: But do all immigrants deserve the amnesty?
 

Yes, that makes you illegal.