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Originally Posted by Barry-xlovecam
If anyone can prove that have a job, been in the country for some qualifying time, and pass a criminal check then pass a 'terrorist affiliation' background check -- why should they not be allowed to stay?
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This sounds like a good idea in concept but there are a few issues with this.
The first problem is if they have come here illegally they have broken dozens of laws. Not only immigration, but local laws. There was one college student in Georgia who got pulled over by campus police. It turns out she had been in the US for some time - she had worked here illegally, didn't have a driver's license, insurance, etc. We cannot allow people to come to the United States illegally, break our laws, and then reward them with citizenship.
Also, we cannot just allow "everyone" to come over. We have to have some kind of limits or we will have billions of people come over.
We should also give people "long term temporary" Visas, meaning twenty or thirty years. My brother-in-law is married to a woman from Cuba; Her and her sister actually come into the country on a boat with their kids. Shortly after she became a US citizen she went on disability and has been on disability for over a decade now. If that is not enough, one of the kids that came over "on the boat" became a drug addict, got married, spit out seven kids, which are all now wards of the state. It's entirely possible this family has cost American taxpapers hundred of thousands of dollars.