“This guy had 18 yrs to fix his status. I give this guy zero cares. Get out. Stay out.”
Exactly. I wonder if he had a fake Social Security Number?
It sounds correct. Our immigration system is broken.
It also says that he attempted to find ways to become legal, many times.
The article says that he had no way to fix his status, because the penalty for overstaying the 90 day visa was 10 years deportation.
It sounds correct. Our immigration system is broken.
It also says that he attempted to find ways to become legal, many times.
How is “our immigration system broken” if in this case, he couldn’t legally stay in America after his 90 day visa was up?
He legally came to America on a 90 day visa. To comply with the law, he needed to leave the country then.
It’s not up to him to decide to stay illegally, then upon being here illegally, to claim that it’s unfair for him not finding a legal way to stay.
His legal way to come to America is through our existing very generous system of legal immigration. He needed to go back to Ireland and then apply to become an immigrant.
I know it’s water under the bridge, but he brought all his troubles on himself, by explicitly choosing to violate our immigration laws in the first place.
If he’s been here at least 18 years, that means he came here during Bubba’s 2nd term. In order to get the Peace deal signed in Ireland, maybe Bubba agreed to cut some slack for Irish immigrants. I can believe it, because he would have sold his mother down the river for a pittance.
The law is the law. He did not apply for an immigrant visa, he got a tourist visa and overstayed that visa becoming an illegal alien.
Once a person is an illegal alien there is no way to become legal without leaving and applying to be an immigrant like they should have in the first place.
The system is not broken, the laws are being broken with no enforcement.
That seems to be changing.
Wanna bet he’s been home many times since he first arrived?
I don't know about Boston. But in Chicago, you hire an immigration "consultant" who just happens to be family or business partner of someone in the ICE office. For just a few bucks more you can buy any papers you want in Chicago.
Are we to believe that Boston is any different?
BTW. Those people who have legal papers now because they yielded to extortion, are they legal or illegals?
And those who refused to submit to extortion. Are they better or worse than those who did give in?
“The article says that he had no way to fix his status, because the penalty for overstaying the 90 day visa was 10 years deportation.
It sounds correct. Our immigration system is broken.”
Oh yes he did. After 90 days he should have gone back home and got in line and applied for a regular immigrant visa. The immigration system is not broken .... only the lame thinking of those trying to abuse the system for their own gain.
Broken? How?
The only thing that is broken is that no one caught and deported him earlier. Foreigners don't have the rig to be in the USA. I think 10 years is bad because it should be permanent.