New Haven Independent

Posted by: THREEFIFTHS | March 17, 2008 1:34 PM

Can one of you pro illegally immigrant supporters
please tell me how come the illegally immgrants who are comming into to this country can not do what this family has done and that is get on the list and become U.S. citizens under the system now in place?

Posted by: nfjanette | March 17, 2008 4:43 PM

They often can't because the system is slow and ponderous. It needs to be radically reformed to make it a viable choice for immigration. Of course, closing the porous borders wouldn't be a bad idea either.

Posted by: Kevin | March 17, 2008 5:11 PM

Three-fifths,

What is a kid who was brought here when he or she was a baby supposed to do, leave his or her parents, go back to a country where he or she has no roots, and then apply for U.S. citizenship?

Posted by: cedarhillresident | March 17, 2008 5:50 PM

Good afternoon my little fraction

I agree with what nfjanette posted. Yes even closing the boarders.

It took my neighbor from Jamaica 13 years to become a citizen. A good friend from Haiti she did what she needed to do to come here legal. Should that have to be something women a has to do to come here? But it was worth it to her, she got her whole family here one at a time. Not sure if the number is the same but there is a lottery every year for people from the Tibet to come here. 1000 a year. Imagine we are there powerball ticket. I have another friend from Ecuador that came here legally but his work visa ran out and it was not going to be renewed....so he blended in. I know some other kids and I say kids 18,19,20 from Central America that do jump the boarder. And when they want to go home they give there job to a family member that comes over and takes there place.
Notice not one of these people from MEXICO.

3/5 let me ask you....honestly you live in total poverty....no not America poverty 3rd world poverty, way different than ours. You try to come to America but the list is long it will be years before you can come....but your family is in a bad way..... do you risk your life to save them?? I would in a heart beat. You have to take a moment and walk in there shoes.
Note the above story no country would take her...she fled the boarders of her country. We let her in. Why, because that is what America is 3/5th

As the great lady says:

Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me:
I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Everytime I read that my heart crys

Posted by: THREEFIFTHS | March 17, 2008 7:08 PM

As her mom said she has wait for years,Again if she can wait for years on the list so can others!!
Second this country is starting to look like 3rd world poverty Job outsourceing subprime mess health care,I was just reading in the newspaper
that in some states school systems are having problems placing legal childern in the school system because illegal immgrants childern have flood the school system,Also some of these illegal immgrants are flooding the health care system.Last Cedarhillresident you stated what the great lady says that is true but those People came here the legal Way!!!

Posted by: JP | March 17, 2008 9:17 PM

Three-fifths: the answer to your question is easy. Ms. Keric came here as a political refugee, not an economic refugee! Totally different rules apply. It's interesting to note nonetheless, that in places like Colombia, where the US is financing what is essentially a civil war (as was the case in Nicaragua in the 1980's), we make those folks go through a much higher "burden of proof" before they are granted political asylum (and refugee status).

Posted by: THREEFIFTHS | March 18, 2008 6:03 AM

JP
You said that Ms.Keric came here as a political refugee,But she still followed the law that apply
to political asylum which also has people wait on a list.But her daughter applied to become a U.S.citizen the legal way not like what cedarhillresident friend did when his work visa ran out he blended in that J.P. is breaking the immgrantion laws of this country, I know some one who is on a list for three years to get a kidney should some new jump a head of him on the list,My point is that there is a law in place that states
how to become a U.S.Citizen and if you donot follow this law then you are breaking the law.

Posted by: on whalley | March 18, 2008 8:59 AM

They can't because it is "slow and ponderous?"

So next time a student asks me why it's taking the NHPD 6 months to okay their pistol permit I should tell them to go ahead and buy one illegally and carry it illegally because the system is "slow and ponderous" and needs to be changed?

Thanks NFJ. Nothing quite like immediate satisfaction. I suppose McDonalds is to blame for driving that in America.