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I agree. My mother came here on an guest worker visa, legallly. She's now a citizen and contributing member of society. Of course, this would not even come up if US didn't have an illegal alien problem

Thanks for your real life post. I get so tired of folks whining and moaning about H-1Bs when we have 9-12 million illegals who are using fake social security numbers, jamming up the emergency rooms for routine health care, driving without licenses and insurance. And every Presidential candidate (including our beloved President) wants to give them a free ticket to America.

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Whoah I remember this...
And every Presidential candidate (including our beloved President) wants to give them a free ticket to America.

*** He wanted to give this to the Mexicans ONLY. Well I remember EVERYONE up in arms as to why he singled out the Mexicans? I remember the editor of a caribbean newspaper writing that Bush was curryfavoring with Vicente Fox, and not to do at all if he wasn't going to give everyone a chance at amnesty. BTW, I also know ILLEGALS too and not everyone has a crack at amnesty. A lot of people I knew who disappeared, I found out were sent back. They were nice but still you break the law, suffer the results.

Vicente Fox has the deal of the millenium. Send out all the pauper mountain people to the US by life in Mexico impossible. Get a steady flow of US hard currency by people sending money home.

I personally witnessed an illegal trying to use a SSN card. The lady at the emergency room desk threw at back at him saying it wasn't his and why does he need his friend to speak for him? The man could even write in spanish, his own language. They sent him packing. I was astounded.