Originally Posted by kane

So true. Long ago in the mid 90's I worked for a pretty big tech company. There was a guy that worked there who was from Mexico. He was here legally, but his mother, grandmother and some other relatives still were in Mexico trying to come here legally. He would send them part of his check every payday. He said by doing that he was able to take better financial care of them than if he had stayed in Mexico and got a job there.

He was able to come here relatively easily because he was an engineer and the company sponsored him, but getting the rest of the family here legally was going to be a long, difficult process.