byjove
09-04-2007, 12:11 AM
Found this on the hill! Some one else trying too!
http://thehill.com/letters/families-separated-suffering-in-legal-immigration-process-2007-07-11.html
By Paul Burns
July 11, 2007
All we ever heard about [in the immigration bill debate] was border security, illegal immigrants, what to do with the 12 million illegals sucking up our public services, poor people and chain migration.
But in that bill was also help for legal immigrants stuck for five, 10, and yes, 15 years, still waiting to come here. These are people who have filed to come here, followed our laws, followed our processes and do not complain: the exact kind of people we do want here. Because of the outdated laws, bureaucracy, ridiculous quota and old distribution visa number system, they are punished for doing things right. When that bill went, so did their help. These people are not illegal. These people are not part of the so-called new point system. They are people stuck in a broken system. Our politicians say they are for legal immigration but left these people high and dry again, and no one cares.
I was born in this country. I married a woman from Minsk, Belarus. We followed the law and today she is a legal, naturalized citizen. My stepdaughter was 20 when they came here. She turned 21 before she could get an interview, and then, because of government backlogs she had to go back. We followed the law. She is now 27 and still not here. She has a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and a master’s in American literature, and she speaks, writes and interprets four languages, including English. Under today’s rules and outdated quota system she could be projected for another five to seven years before she gets here.
Having killed the bill, these people should immediately pass something to get these backlogs cleared in three years and free up the quotas until this backlog is over.
The gloaters over the bill’s failure will not receive my vote, and neither will the people who were in favor of it. All of them just forgot these people.
~From Paul Burns, Wrentham, Mass.
http://thehill.com/letters/families-separated-suffering-in-legal-immigration-process-2007-07-11.html
By Paul Burns
July 11, 2007
All we ever heard about [in the immigration bill debate] was border security, illegal immigrants, what to do with the 12 million illegals sucking up our public services, poor people and chain migration.
But in that bill was also help for legal immigrants stuck for five, 10, and yes, 15 years, still waiting to come here. These are people who have filed to come here, followed our laws, followed our processes and do not complain: the exact kind of people we do want here. Because of the outdated laws, bureaucracy, ridiculous quota and old distribution visa number system, they are punished for doing things right. When that bill went, so did their help. These people are not illegal. These people are not part of the so-called new point system. They are people stuck in a broken system. Our politicians say they are for legal immigration but left these people high and dry again, and no one cares.
I was born in this country. I married a woman from Minsk, Belarus. We followed the law and today she is a legal, naturalized citizen. My stepdaughter was 20 when they came here. She turned 21 before she could get an interview, and then, because of government backlogs she had to go back. We followed the law. She is now 27 and still not here. She has a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and a master’s in American literature, and she speaks, writes and interprets four languages, including English. Under today’s rules and outdated quota system she could be projected for another five to seven years before she gets here.
Having killed the bill, these people should immediately pass something to get these backlogs cleared in three years and free up the quotas until this backlog is over.
The gloaters over the bill’s failure will not receive my vote, and neither will the people who were in favor of it. All of them just forgot these people.
~From Paul Burns, Wrentham, Mass.