The other side of deportation: An American struggles to prepare for life without husband

[Blueblood 5]

Amazing how much hate and judgment get spewed on this forum over

and over by the same ppl and they too either got in here somehow

as an immigrant (wants to close the door behind them) others trying

to get their ppl in thinking their ppl alone deserves the opportunity.

I honestly have to smile at some of these immigrants comments..Don't

get me wrong everyone should enter the proper way, but we all know it

does not happen always like that, there are those though that deserve

some sympathy ....what if it was the other way around?

The world changes if we read history we see that, we may not be around

but will leave offsprings not knowing where in the world things will change

God bless U all

I'm not sure I understand you, J.

I've lived and traveled abroad all over the world--and ALWAYS followed the law of my respective host country--immigration laws very much included. Now my fiancé and I are trying to do the same thing here in the US for her to join me. It's not easy, but it's the law (the forthcoming amnesty to basically void immigration laws not withstanding).

Are you saying the US owes illegal immigrants something?

Are you suggesting that, bc my fiancé is a would-be immigrant, she should not have the opinion that people should follow the law and not just come here illegally and demand status?

I'm really having a difficult time understanding your viewpoint but I am open to new ideas and new ways of thinking.

[melanieuk 19]

I'm not sure I understand you, J.

I've lived and traveled abroad all over the world--and ALWAYS followed the law of my respective host country--immigration laws very much included. Now my fiancé and I are trying to do the same thing here in the US for her to join me. It's not easy, but it's the law (the forthcoming amnesty to basically void immigration laws not withstanding).

Are you saying the US owes illegal immigrants something?

Are you suggesting that, bc my fiancé is a would-be immigrant, she should not have the opinion that people should follow the law and not just come here illegally and demand status?

I'm really having a difficult time understanding your viewpoint but I am open to new ideas and new ways of thinking.

Laws are just laws and can be changed. Specially if they are for the common good, which in this case they are. It is very funny to read these sort of bogus arguments in regards to a country that was founded on illegal immigration. Just like President Obama said, if you're not Native American you're from somewhere else. Do you think Native Americans were pleased with how the colonialism went?

Edited January 20, 2015 by melanieuk

[Boiler 45,467]

natve americans is a misnomer, best research suggests they entered without inspection or documentation.

Edited January 20, 2015 by Boiler

[Blueblood 5]

So perhaps, Melanie, my fiancé, as well as the hundreds of members of VJ applying for entry for their respective loved ones, should just blow it off? Just lie on a tourist visa application? Or perhaps pay for a smuggler to sneak them in?

As you said, laws can be changed. So why bother to obey them in the first place?

Who needs the Rule of Law anyway. Everyone knows the best countries in the world are those without the Rule of Law.

[Torete 121]

Laws are just laws and can be changed. Specially if they are for the common good, which in this case they are. It is very funny to read these sort of bogus arguments in regards to a country that was founded on illegal immigration. Just like President Obama said, if you're not Native American you're from somewhere else. Do you think Native Americans were pleased with how the colonialism went?

Laws are more than "just laws". By change, do you mean by Executive Action? I don't recall that being the established means to change a law.

[Blueblood 5]

America is in the process of abandoning the Rule of Law. Without the Rule of Law, first world countries would not be...wait for it...first world countries.

If abandoning the Rule of Law was such a fantastic idea, why aren't tens of millions of immigrants trying to move to Syria, Haiti, El Salvador, North Korea, and Nigeria, to name but a few developing countries?

[Beverrlly 7]

What annoys me most about this story is what's totally glossed over....he got denied because he had a DUI. This a-hole was driving around DRUNK! He absolutely could have killed innocent people because he couldn't be bothered to think of anyone but himself and call a dang cab! IMHO, that says more about him than anything else in the article...

Edited March 20, 2015 by Beverrlly