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On 3/5/2021 at 9:22 PM, Huskyfan32 said:

CRIMINAL immigrant seems to be the best fit.

 

Let's not forget it's a privilege to be legal immigrants, and people are undocumented not usually because they are just jumping the line or deliberately breaking the law, but because they are coming from difficult and desperate circumstances. Have some compassion. 😥 So much hate against undocumented immigrants; ironic and depressing considering this is an immigration forum. 

[C & D Guerrero 8]

On 2/5/2021 at 3:51 PM, Lucky Cat said:

Good luck.....but be aware that, even in pre-covid times, a year apart for a spousal visa was not uncommon at all (13 months in our case).  In fact the average time was at least a year.  Even before President Trump came into office, there were (and still are), more than a million I-130s pending processing at any one time.  My point is.....don't expect miracles.  It will take quite some time to ever make immigration a fast process.  Biden can do very, very little short of hiring thousands and thousands of additional processors......and you know who would pay for those additional employees.  As far as expedites go, thousands of people are all trying to justify why their own case should go to the front of the queue ahead of others who have been waiting longer.  Since it costs nothing to request an expedite, everyone applies.......good luck.  This is not going to be an easy fix.

Yeah but waiting a year for just the interview is another story! We are in month 20 of the whole process 8 months awaiting the interview. I have written the white house twice, congressmen and senators

[C & D Guerrero 8]

On 3/17/2021 at 2:39 PM, Wuozopo said:

 I have mixed feelings about this. Living in Texas, I see the strain that the undocumented put on our state/county economies, schools, and health care resources. Perhaps up north it isn’t in your face daily. Perhaps you’ve never had a fender bender accident when the person who hit you had no driver license or insurance. I have to wonder how many thousands  more we can invite in to support locally. I don’t think of them in terms of the enemy, but perhaps I think of them as a burden. Where do the huge amount of resources and funding you mention come from...my county taxes, federal taxes, school taxes, high priced medical care...... ??
 

My wife has  helped undocumented we know with the DACA hoops to jump through. She has reviewed tax returns and made so many calls to the IRS to help a family with fake social security numbers file and pay their income tax on jobs they hold without work authorization. I sympathize with their plight. We care about these people. A year ago when Covid became very real to us, we decided that nobody was coming in our home. We dismissed our housekeeper team, but continued to pay them full wages for three months. 
 

I wonder if you have considered that you don’t want to use the word “illegals” yet describe your situation as doing it “legally” (“relish in the fact we have the opportunity to do this legally”). If you are immigrating legally, then aren’t the others immigrating illegally? Should maybe you say doing it with documentation? The semantics and politically correct terminology are the least of our problems and just give something else almost trivial to argue about. 
 

I have no grand ideas of how to fix things. I just see how opening our borders can be a strain. As I said, mixed feelings on the topic due to proximity to the southern border. 

Truth! There is no reason for the name calling. However, there should be more attention given to LEGAL immigration as well as helping those who arrived in the country and are undocumented. Legal immigration has many hoops as well. We are scrutinized and evaluated. The fact that a citizen has to wait years to bring a mother, son or parent is deplorable. But, having lived in abroad in a poor nation, I understand why people immigrate illegally. 

Mall I ask is that they fix both systems

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15 minutes ago, C & D Guerrero said:

Truth! There is no reason for the name calling. However, there should be more attention given to LEGAL immigration as well as helping those who arrived in the country and are undocumented. Legal immigration has many hoops as well. We are scrutinized and evaluated. The fact that a citizen has to wait years to bring a mother, son or parent is deplorable. But, having lived in abroad in a poor nation, I understand why people immigrate illegally. 

Mall I ask is that they fix both systems

My thoughts on media reports (mostly CNN). 
Media keeps referring to these “children” crossing unaccompanied. I believe these are mostly 16 and 17 year olds, but saying “children” drums up sympathy and visions of tots all alone. Why don’t they say a massive influx of teenage males.
 

On the deplorable and unacceptable conditions of these detention centers.
OMG they have to sleep on pads on the floor and it’s crowded. They need proper beds with mattresses. What the heck have they come from but sleeping on dirt floors, large extended families in a one room shack, no running water. Do we have to provide them with Marriot conditions or is a sanitary place, blankets, and meals going to be okay while this is sorted?  

Edited April 21, 2021 by Wuozopo

[Ecaen87 43]

On 4/20/2021 at 8:22 PM, Wuozopo said:

My thoughts on media reports (mostly CNN). 
Media keeps referring to these “children” crossing unaccompanied. I believe these are mostly 16 and 17 year olds, but saying “children” drums up sympathy and visions of tots all alone. Why don’t they say a massive influx of teenage males.
 

On the deplorable and unacceptable conditions of these detention centers.
OMG they have to sleep on pads on the floor and it’s crowded. They need proper beds with mattresses. What the heck have they come from but sleeping on dirt floors, large extended families in a one room shack, no running water. Do we have to provide them with Marriot conditions or is a sanitary place, blankets, and meals going to be okay while this is sorted?  

The main issue is that years ago nobody knew anything about asylum. Somehow in the past 4 years all this immigrants from central america at the beginning and now also from south america and even from africa, they now know about the asylum system, that it takes years to get an answer and while they wait they can stay and apply for EADs, request certain benefits like food stamps and other things that regular legal immigrants are not allowed to request. So just to mention this past march, over 160.000 people crossed the border and now they don’t just hide and try to get deep into the country, now they turn themselves to CBP and request asylum. 160 thousand last month, how can the government provide for that many people every month. Then they apply for asylum and pay $0 for the application, $0 for the EAD, and who is processing all those new applications? Disney? Nope, USCIS, and how is that agency funded? By the government? Nope, mainly, around 97% by the fees that legal immigrants pay for their applications. 
So if the they want to apply for asylum fine but they should be paying their fair share.

Edited April 26, 2021 by Ecaen87

[SunflowerSweet 1,321]

On 4/20/2021 at 8:22 PM, Wuozopo said:

My thoughts on media reports (mostly CNN). 
Media keeps referring to these “children” crossing unaccompanied. I believe these are mostly 16 and 17 year olds, but saying “children” drums up sympathy and visions of tots all alone. Why don’t they say a massive influx of teenage males.
 

On the deplorable and unacceptable conditions of these detention centers.
OMG they have to sleep on pads on the floor and it’s crowded. They need proper beds with mattresses. What the heck have they come from but sleeping on dirt floors, large extended families in a one room shack, no running water. Do we have to provide them with Marriot conditions or is a sanitary place, blankets, and meals going to be okay while this is sorted?  

Hi! I’m currently on detail working at a center in Texas caring for and interviewing unaccompanied minors to try and connect them with any relatives they may have in the states. HHS put out a call for any civilian gov workers to be temporarily deployed to help with the influx, and so far me and literally thousands of others from all sorts of agencies have signed on to help out.
 

While they aren’t all toddlers, no, they also aren’t all 16 and 17 year olds. There is a good mix of ages and backgrounds. They are definitely all kids. The conditions aren’t luxurious, and remind me of the picture and videos I would see of hurricane evacuation areas being set up. A lot of this is due to how quickly they have had to have been set up.

 

A lot of these kids didn’t grow up crammed in houses with dirt floors, that seems like a weird and stereotype-based image you invented in your head.

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4 hours ago, MorganandMichael said:

A lot of these kids didn’t grow up crammed in houses with dirt floors, that seems like a weird and stereotype-based image you invented in your head.

I think he was referring to the fact that they may be poor.  Here in the Philippines, poor people often do have dirt floors and very cramped conditions.  What can you tell us about the these kids who you say did not grow up in such conditions?  How did they get to the U.S. on their own?  When/how did they become "unaccompanied" children?  If they are coming with the intent to join relatives already in the U.S., I have a hard time calling that asylum seeking, and most likely the people helping them get there are human traffickers.

 

According to this March 23rd BBC article:

 

The majority are teenage boys. Many are travelling to meet family who have already migrated to the US.

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-56405009