RossValoryRocks wrote:Ok Fyre...we understand you are married to a Columbian...all well and good...she did it the legal way...
It's ColOmbia with an "O". Yes - she AND I did things legally. Do you know what we had to do? Of course not. Do you know what it takes to get here legally? I doubt it.
Let me put it to you this way. I'm an American citizen born and raised. My wife is a permanent resident and Colombian citizen. We tried to LEGALLY get her parents here to visit their grandchildren whom they've never seen. That's it. We just wanted a simple visitor's visa. Immigration denied it. Why? Because they're considered impoverished and therefore have no compelling reason to honor their visa and return home. You'd think that my status as a tax-paying citizen and my wife's as a premanent resident would have some bearing. It doesn't. I fully understand the position of Immigration on this matter. They don't want her parents to become a burden to our society. BUT - here's a situation when it's all in their favor! They know who we are and where we live. They know EVERYTHING about us and my in-laws. If we were to violate the visa then they would know exactly where to find us. They could hunt us down like dogs and exact punishment. But NO. We've tried to do things LEGALLY but because of poverty we're screwed. Now if they granted the visa we would spend American dollars to house and feed them - along with anything else that they would need - it would all go into the American economy. As it is we now have to visit Colombia. So everything that we would've spent here is now going to go into the economy of Colombia. Makes sense!
In contrast to that we have a friend who brought her brother here to visit from Colombia. For what? So that he could find a job and earn some quick money in order to help his mentally and physically challenged daughter who was in dire need of medical care that he couldn't afford as a taxi driver in Colombia. A local job shop hired him KNOWING that his visa was NOT a work visa. They worked his ass off. He did all of the dangerous stuff and got paid less than anyone. He was injured and burned by chemicals and paid for the treatment himself. He then viloated his visa by staying longer than it allowed. In the end the job shop got someone to do the shit jobs and he got enough American dollars to convert over to help his daughter.
I have many more stories but I'm not going to post further. The point here is that IN MY LIFE - the people I KNOW PERSONALLY do NOT fit the hysterical characterizations that have been made here, there, and everywhere in the media.
Certainly, there are some illegals that do however I don't know any - and I know A LOT. If anyone should be pissed about them it should be ME. Here I am surrounded by illegals when I had to go throuhg such aggravation getting my wife here. You know why I'm not pissed? Because I know them and what I know about them doesn't jive with the hysteria.
RossValoryRocks wrote:The illegals are ruining this country. They are collecting benefits from the government that are taken out if my (and everyone elses) hard earned paycheck every 2 weeks. The contribute NOTHING to society via taxes paid, which means money that should be going to the local, state and federal governments to provide things like schools, roads and tax relief to the already over burdened middle class of this country, ISN'T.
All of the illegals I know are employed and pay taxes.
As for collecting benefits - I know more LAZY, good-for-nothing Americans who abuse our system.
RossValoryRocks wrote:They takes jobs that LEGAL immigants and american citizen need.
More media hype. Again, this was said of the Chinese and Irish that poured into this country and eventually were the labor force that built our railroad systems.
Nobody TAKES a job from anyone. I've worked TWO jobs on and off over the last few years. One full-time and one part-time. I can tell you that if I had the time I could've worked a third job EASILY. The national employment rate is around 4%!!! What you're saying is unfounded in reality.
RossValoryRocks wrote:Illegals are nothing but a drain on society, and that isn't racist, that's FACT.
Yeah. The American economy is on and off the strongest in the WORLD. Those illegals sure are dragging us down.
RossValoryRocks wrote:I understand they want a better life...but so the people who do it the HARD way, by obeying the laws of this country and immigrating legally. My father-in-law came from Italy in the early 50's, didn't speak English, but he learned. He followed the laws and rules and regulations of this country and became a US Citizen, like a person is supposed to do.
And I can say the same for my wife but the REALITY is that it isn't always that easy to follow the rules.
RossValoryRocks wrote:The illegals coming in, be the Hispanic or otherwise, DO NONE of these things. They come here against the law, making them CRIMINALS, they refuse to learn the language, they engage in illicit and criminal behavior at a rate FAR above the people who legally enter the country.

This characterization does NOT fit any of the illegals I know.
RossValoryRocks wrote:You have no facts, you can only scream racist and attempt to dismiss those who ONLY wish for people to obey our laws, contribute to our society and LEGALLY be a part of our country.
The so-called "facts" that you've presented here are in absolute disagreement with the reality of my personal life and those whom I know.