"Oh no! You mean we'll have to obey the law??? Presidente Bush, you have let us down!"
Posted on 07/12/2007 5:46:34 PM PDT by AmericanInTokyo
My fiance is from India and told me a really heartwarming story. He was at the consulate in Bombay applying for a student visa to come to grad school in the US. He was nervous, of course, but reasonably optimistic that his application would be accepted. Also in line was another guy his age who appeared to be from a small village outside of the Bombay metro area, and he was also applying for a student visa. This guy had his whole family with him - parents, aunts, uncles, cousins, a tiny grandmother. Before this young man entered the consulate, his mother performed “aarti” to bless him (praying while waving a lit oil lamp around him in a circular motion) while the rest of the family wrung their hands. My fiance was still in line when he exited the consulate and lept into his parents’ arms, weeping with joy - his application to study in the US had been accepted. This was not solid permission, just an application. It was not permission to immigrate or work - just to go to graduate school. But he had worked and saved to afford the application fee, and was going to be the first in his family to even travel outside the country. The possibility of having the very thing we sometimes take for granted - being able to live and work in this fantastic country every day - was like winning the lottery to him and his family.
I remember another country that woke this sleeping tiger. Tell the soldiers overseas, that the people at home will fight to keep our homeland American for when they get back.
Remember how the boys in “Black Hawk Down” couldn’t get down the streets that were blocked? When the parade starts, block off the exits, pick em up like the running of the bulls.
And when they dont get what they want, they will take to the streets.
My prediction? They wont give a damn about our streets either, once they wreck everything in sight.
How we ever allowd this mass to enter our country and cut in front of the people you talked about is beside me.
(This is a bit long as usual, but I wanted to describe what it's actually like to go through the visa process from outside the U.S.)
During the very first step of my wife's immigration from Vietnam, they were running *everyone* through the offices of the Orderly Departure Program in Saigon.
ODP, which ended several years ago, was basically a refugee program which at the time was processing (for example) RSVN Army officers finishing their 10 to 20 years of "reeducation"; the remainder of the American/Vietnamese kids; and of course the normal spousal and family visas.
For most of these folks the trip to ODP was the culmination of anywhere from 2 to 10 years of waiting in line. They'd come from all over the country because there was only one ODP office, so from the Delta 1 day of travel and from Hue maybe 3 or 4 days (each way).
Once in Saigon, one of the first chores was to complete all of the State Dept.-required (and CDC designed) medical screenings (e.g., TB, AIDS, STDs, MMR, etc) and immunizations at Chao Rai Hospital, which added a few more days and costs to the trip.
Once done, they'd head over to ODP with their envelopes stuffed with those medical approvals; police and financial clearances; birth certificates and "family books"; INS paperwork; and whatever affidavits etc. had been sent by family from the U.S. Lose that folder or anything in it and you are S-C-R-E-W-E-D.
Now even though you have your official appointment letter, when you arrive at ODP you enter a large basketball-court sized room with chairs and benches and which is packed to the gills. Maybe 300 to 500 people, all with their number, all waiting to be summoned for their appointment and interview (in fairness, probably 50 percent are family members and/or friends supporting the applicant). You check in at a desk, take your seat, and wait. Could be an hour, could be all day, could be tomorrow. Don't ask the bitchy local national employees for help, they are quite sadistic (Why? You're leaving Vietnam, and they're not).
So you sit in this warehouse with a few fans (no A/C) in the lovely Saigon climate of 95 degrees, 90 percent humidity, with 500 other sweating and anxious people.
Well your appointment finally arrives, and just hope there are no problems, because there's no public phone in the building.
Wifey did have a minor (aka "major") problem with the paperwork, and our salvation was that I'd previously made some acquaintances with ODP management and had the phone numbers for the ONE telephone and ONE fax machine in the building. Solving that problem required an emergency flight to Saigon, but that ONE telephone and fax machine made it possible to reserve an appointment slot at 8:30 Monday morning. My wife had her immigation visa in hand by 9:00AM.
I think it would have been easier if we'd just gone to Mexico and crossed over at Nogales. Then she could have skated by until Amnesty kicks in. what's the downside? I don't see it.
They should NEVER have been given access to taxpayer funded services to BEGIN with.
I lived in Europe for 4 years. I cannot even imagine doing something like that there.
It boggles my mind that non-citizens in this country can access our nation's welfare and other public assistance.
Me too!
Thank you, Prince William County!!!! Are you listening Arlington, Fairfax, Loudoun, etc.?!?!?! Press 1 for enforce the law or get out of the way!
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Now come the wolves!!
B T T T
“THIS, is PRECISELY the strategy I see, the Grand Strategy, which must necessarily spread like a PRAIRIE FIRE across the nation, and spread quickly. We can keep an eye on the Federal level with the Congresscritters, but this local approach is where we get a real “bang for the buck”. We can fight them on 3000 different fronts, they the enemy (La Raza, ACLU, Maldef) will only be able to get attorneys to a few of those thousands of local communities. By sheer size, the lion roars, the giant wakes up, and we shake this national plague off of our backs, town by town, county by county if we have to. We will prevail.”
Worth repeating!!
OUTSTANDING!!
The kind of cute judicial finesse the Left loves so well will only go so far here... especially against as big a public mandate as I've ever seen.
Thanx. Part of my platform for 2008. LOL!
Illegal immigration is SUCH a slap in the face of legal immigrants, or Americans who petitioned and brought in LEGAL immigrants.
As I said, the illegals and their defenders are usually SPEECHLESS when you confront them with this travest and injustice.
To me, that 17 year old’s facial disposition, the sheer look on her face of fear and trepidation, at hearing the news that ILLEGAL STATUS ALIENS will be cracked down upon, is enough PROBABLE CAUSE for me that she herself is illegal, and that the I.C.E. should round her and the dude next to her up.
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