Let me tell you anther story, the story of every other immigrant from every other part of the world. They cant or rather wont just walk across the line to enjoy the American dream they pacently and respectfully wait their turn and sometimes they do wait 10 years but in doing so they demonstrate not only their commitment but their equality to all others.
It is inexcusably unfair to give someone who has already cut in line a faster or more comfortable path to citizenship because they cut in line than someone who has respectfully waited their turn.
Going back to their home country for 20 years may be an intolerable choice for them but what about the hundreds of millions of other people who wait their turn? They’ve been living the American life flaunting our laws and everyone who was respectfully enough of them to follow them for years if not decades.
Why is it acceptable to give theses people an Additional reward rather than punishment for their behavior? Are theses line cutters the kind of Americans we want people who just ignore the law out of expendency and personal convenience? What kind of country results from that attitude?
Corrupt and nearly lawless mexico seems to come to mind.
Actually, the problem arises from Ted Kennedy’s corruption of US immigration law, which changed immigration preference from educated, middle class Europeans, to uneducated, primitive peoples, with no means of supporting themselves, from violent and anarchic fourth world countries.
Were the US to adopt better immigration policies, assuming there was border security, much of the problem would take care of itself. Immigrants could fill out a checklist of what they could *offer* America, with the knowledge that the *better* they were, the faster they could get US citizenship.
1) College education from a reputable college.
2) Wealth.
3) Arrangement for employment prior to arrival.
4) No known associations with terrorist or criminal organizations.
5) Health insurance bond for a minimum number of years.
6) etc.
If immigrants do not have enough of these things, then they are not even admitted as visitors, much less with citizenship. Prime candidates should be able to get citizenship within 3 years.