Topic: Immigration and trade
Open Letter To All Presdential Candidates How will you serve American Citizens better than non-citizensby Chris Future
(libertarian)
Monday, April 28, 2008
Dear Sir/Madam:
Every day, you read another article about immigrant families kept apart by our immigration policies.
I am an American citizen. I have petitioned to bring my fiance into the country on a fiance visa. Normally this process is supposed to take 6 months in total, however due to the prioritizing of naturalization visas ahead of these, a fee increase which increased the number of petitions overall, the H1-B April surge, the resignation of Emilio Gonzalez, and other factors, this process will now take up to a year or more. It seems to me and all others like me, the focus has been on serving illegal immigrants and non-citizens over us American citizens. We seem to pay more and get poorer service.
If you are elected, what will you do to ensure that American citizens get better service than illegals and non-citizens?
Our families are being kept apart too, you know.
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Good point. And a great question! What would Ron Paul do? Probobly tell you that he is for deporting all illegal immigrants and making sure guys like this Army Vet would not get birthright citizenship: [link edited for length]
There is a mentality in this country to the effect that illegal immigration is hurting america, and there is no end in sight because it is unfeasible to remove them. (and we can't just give them amnesty because they send money home)
Now this proves to be a problem when government misallocates priority based on their own assumptions instead of listening to the American People.
Getting active locally will help us in changing status quo, the more voices that are active in the community, the more change that can actually happen. Instead of focusing (but still paying attention) on the Presidential Race, why dont we start looking at our own communities. How do those on counsel seats feel, and if they dont agree with you, then run against them. Politics as usual will remain that way unless people get involved. Change is not for Change's sake it is for our sake and the sake of our children.
Posted By: Christopher D. Osborn
Date: 2008-05-15 03:56:37
I'm having almost the same problem, accept I'm trying to get to Norge (Norway). My wife is Norwegian and it's taken about 15 months so far and they still haven't given me my fammily immigration permit to live and work in Norge. I'd like to not only see our next president do what he or she can to make the immigration system in the U.S. fair, but encurage our allies(Norge is in Afganistan and was in Iraq for a short time) to do the same.
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