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Originally Posted by PhelonOne87
Amen brother
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Originally Posted by Gnome
Those people who say "citizenship for all or nothing," "include my parents or don't legalize me," "I'd rather stay undocumented like my parents," don't have a live built for themselves here. Some of us risk losing the education we worked so hard to achieve, now earning 6-figure incomes, paying hella taxes, with mortgages, cars.
If you have that, you cannot afford to lose the ability to work. So no, "include everyone or no deal" does not work for some of us.
A compromise is needed and a compromise will have to happen if we want to be in a better position to help our parents, whether they remain in the US or return to their home countries.
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Word.
As they say before a flight. You need to put on your own oxygen mask first before you can help anyone else. It's not selfish, it's fact.