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:	post by ouchdrummer at 2009-05-02 15:42:52

AndrewBastard said: "we all know 9/10 of these fuckers aren't taking any steps to become legal."

While i understand where your coming from, it's still a pretty big generalization. You'd probably assume i'm biased because of my wife, but because of her I've met and spent time with more illegals than most citizens have. And whether or not you beileive it, i know for a fact that 9/10 of the ones i know have been trying to become legal since years before they even came here.

Let's take my wife for example, she was a surgeons assistant in Brazil and worked 60-70 hours a week there, and still made just enough that her and her son had to eat nothing but rice for two meals a day, Never mind any sort of amenities. During which she spent just under 10grand, and 4 years with lawyers and applications to get even a temporary visa. Which even after all that didn't happen. So instead of accepting an inpovershed life for her and her son, she paid another 5grand to get smuggled into this country. Yup, i said 1 5 grand. And she has spent almost another 5 while she has been here to try and become legal... which may I add, even though she isn't legal, she has an IRS tax ID number, and pays her taxes every year just like you or me.

So again, i could see how people think the way that they do, but try to put yourself in a similar situation that my wife was in, and think whether or not you would have done anything differently.

I still think that people NOT trying to become legal, or people that got smuggled in without trying to get approved for a visa, or people who even do both of those but DON'T pay taxes should be deported. I just think that too many Americans put all immigrants in the same category; and when that group of people are all looked at as lazy criminals who wanna take our jobs, and destroy our country it's really not right, and i think they need to me informed better.

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