Cathy_Lee wrote: How is it unfair if the people doing it legally get in anyway?
Sure they have to go through more hoops but they become naturalized citizens in the process.
Getting into the U.S. legally is way, way different than becoming a naturalized citizen.
I helped my best friend sponsor her husband from Algeria...the paperwork alone took more than 2 years to get thru and then my friend had to go to Algeria for a week and go to the American embassy in Algiers every day for five days to get him allowed in country AND then it still took 3 more months. The entire process to get him in-country took over 3 years.
Did you know that the people leaving the country they are citizens of, in some cases, have to get approval from their home countries to leave? And that there are only a certain quantity of people allowed to immigrate from some countries?
Then it took him another 2 years before he got his green card. He still isn't a citizen because it costs too much.
I'm not even going to explain the paperwork that we had to fill out and sign and send with an original copy of our birth certificates when the initial request was made--and they lost the birth certificates.
Not easy, not fun.
But...my opinion after going thru that process was that it isn't right for someone to try to go around the system by crossing the border illegally.
