Posted on 07/05/2005 1:06:32 PM PDT by Pa' fuera
Question:
In January 1996, I tried to cross the border illegally by faking that I was a US citizen, and at that time I was 17 years old. They caught me, and I was returned to Mexico.
I solicited my laser visa (border crossing card) in 2003, and I've had it since then. But now that I want to solicit the I-94 permit (permit to travel beyond the "border regions") and since they take fingerprints as part of the process, I'm afraid to lose the visa because I was also fingerprinted when I was caught. Could this happen when I solicit the I-94? What advice do you have for me?
Answer:
When you made the fraudulent declaration that you were a US citizen, you committed an act that makes you inadmissable to the US.
When, after doing this, you solicited a laser visa, you once again made a fraudulent declaration to obtain the visa: Where the visa application asks you if you have ever declared to be a US citizen and you answered "no" in order to obtain the visa. It's probably that the consulate did not figure out that you were inadmissable at the time they gave you your laser visa.
Since you obtained your laser visa fraudulently, they can take it away from you at any time when you attempt to enter the US.
When your fingerprints are taken during the US Visit process to obtain an I-94 admission permit, they will detect that you had been deported previously and had made a false declaration. In such a moment, they will cancel your visa and they will return you to Mexico voluntarily or they may deport you.
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Our government continues to be snookered by illegal immigrants who, in this case, can walk through our ports of entry with valid documents issued by Homeland Security. Since US visit isn't applied at the Mexican border unless someone applies for an I-94, the illegals can just get around it by not going through the I-94 process. They can freely travel the country without the I-94 anyway.
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If your stupid and burn bridges by doing things you should not you have to live with those facts from now on.
What's troubling about this is that there is no consequence to this individual for what he's done - he can continue to cross the border and travel where he wants in the US.
That's okay. The 'Rat Party has gotten the money and support it has by lying for over 90 years.
Do you happen to know how difficult (or easy) it is to get one of these border crossing cards?
Every person who is caught entering the country illegally should be fingerprinted and never be granted United States citizenship under any condition. (PS I don't think there is a single congressman with the huevos to propose this bill in Congress.)
I get my I-94 every year..an I-94 is simply an arrival/departure record, nothing more...it is not a special permit of any kind...It includes date of entry and an alien number on it...anyone with cardstock, photocopier and a printer can make them.
This is terrible. I'm sure he's just a hard working family man who will only take jobs that no Americans will do.
Does El Presidente Fox want Mexicans to get their US documents from the US government? Doesn't Fox want Mexicans to buy US documents from him? Fox's profits from selling official Mexican IDs to any one with the cash are very high, but the profits from selling US documents to Mexicans have got to be even better!
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It is much too easy to get these, and they last for 10 years. The applicant is supposed to show ties (job, house, etc.) to their home country and prove to the State Dept that they are not going to use the visas to immigrate to the US. Well, there are people in Tijuana who are issued these visas whose ties are $100/week jobs, and this, inexplicably, meets the State Dept's test. The get the visa and then use it to immigrate.
That's why, when the State dept changed the visa and made it so everyone who had the old format visas had to renew, about 600,000 of them were not renewed.
The state department issues between 500 - 1,000 of these cards per day, and that's just in Tijuana. When business gets slow for them, they advertise in the newspaper that "now is a good time to apply for your laser visa".
All of this has become a viable alternative for the illegal who doesn't want to risk his life crossing the border in the desert. They go to Tijuana, live there for about a year, get a job, apply for the visa. Then, when they get the visa, they're off to the US...permanently.
For Mexicans, there really is no need for an I-94, unless they need to travel by air, and maybe not even then. It's just an unnecessary rendezvous with Homeland Security that could only cause them problems.
Yes there is, he just needs to be caught in the act and one day he will be. That's how we catch allot of the visa violators. They get comfortable and complacent and then they make a mistake.
I agree in some cases (like if he flew into LA from Mexico City), but it seems those "acts" are avoidable if he doesn't apply for the I-94 and if he doesn't travel by air (and if he's flying domestically, he doesn't even go through immigration, so there's no one to check him there, either). This guy can cross the border every day if he wants - as long as they're not taking his fingerprint at the border they're not going to catch him. It's telling that he has his laser visa and he wants to go apply for the I-94. That implies that he knows he can get across the border to ask for his I-94 without any problem.
If they come over without a uniform they should be shot as spies, as is appropriate to the state of war Mexico is waging against us.
How much of a deterrent would it be if the Criminal Aliens knew ahead of time that the chances of getting a job were pretty slim?
Actually, that's what we want them to think. That's when they get complacent.
90% of the cases at my port are due to the alien getting complacent while speaking to the inspector. When you know what questions to ask and what to look for, it becomes pretty easy.
Also, the more time he spends in the US, the easier it is to catch them and sooner or later, we will catch them.
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