The Ted Kennedy Amnesty Bill is effectively offering US citizenship for $3,000. But the offer is only open to illegal immigrants. You can only buy US citizenship if you’ve broken America’s laws.
For an illustration of how absurd this is, consider the case of a British businessman who’s been doing business in the US legally:
http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/1143618459.shtml
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There is no line to citizenship that I, an educated Brit, can even get to the back of… I’ve already spent my $10,000s. I’ve already put in my thousands of pages of paper work. I’ve already invested greatly in your economy. I am using my education directly to benefit hundreds of thousands of Americans who are using the service I provide (for free, by the way), and yet American law requires me to state an intent not to stay permanently. May I humbly ask this country for at least the same rights as an illegal Latino? Now, I’m guessing the word “Mexican” isn’t going to appear anywhere in the legislation, so should I just let my visa expire; go quiet for a while; become an illegal British immigrant, and then get all the rights for which I’ve been spending so much time and money, as well as some rights that I cannot have as an alien executive manager, by registering as a guest worker? If it wasn’t so serious, it would be funny.
So watch out for your next immigration crisis, America. You will see a new phenomenon: legal alien residents like me will be trying to find ways to become illegal immigrants just so we can join the same line to citizenship that is denied to us as legal productive alien residents … And it will be the best $3000 we’ve ever spent – a small fraction of what’s it’s already cost me to conduct business here for just a year. I wonder if I’ll have to learn Spanish to fill in the forms?
Once the word is out that America has created a line to citizenship for a cool 3000 bucks, it won’t just be America’s southern border that you’ll need to worry about. You’ll have tens of millions of Europeans and Asians flooding in (on airplanes, of course) and looking forward to the expiration of their tourist visas to join the new line as illegal immigrant guest workers, waiting for citizenship.
Please contact your senators (phone works best) and let them know what you think of this amnesty plan.
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That is rediculous! Only a lib like Kennedy would bribe people to do the WRONG thing! Sheesh! Why don't these guys get a clue already! I certainly understand the frustration of the people, like the British gentleman, who want to stay here legally to see this happening!