Luz shares her apartment with her husband, also from Mexico and also undocumented. They met in America. He works in a bar. They have a young daughter who was born in America and is therefore a US citizen.
Uh, yes I do. I helped a very close friend of mine immigrate to America. She came here from Venezuela illegally, then immediately started the process.
Don’t tell me that it isn’t expensive, and doesn’t take lawyers, because I lent her several thousand dollars to cover the costs. Even though she was working hard to resolve her situation, she was still technically illegal while the process played out.
That was about 10 years ago, and she just became a legal citizen in December.
Your family was from Iraq, a country that we deliberately broke. So while your family didn’t have much, it’s likely that your family had special treatment because of America’s special relationship with Iraq at the time. I doubt your situation was the same as the person who just slips in from some random country.
What are you even on about lmao? Ever since the Persian Gulf war back in the 1990s, Iraq was heavily sanctioned by the US and immigration was very difficult, and this was doubly so after 9/11 and the 2003 invasion. The US ever since then has had ADDITIONAL layers of mandatory screening, background checks, paperwork, and interviews compared to other countries. The heightened scrutiny that Iraqis had to go through when applying to immigration to the US is iconic. That’s the “special treatment” my family went through. Not to mention that we were Iraqi citizens living in Syria at the time when we did our immigration process so even if there was any of that elusive special treatment, it didn’t cover us. But that’s the thing, you literally know nothing about me, my family, or the immigration process to get here. You’re just making up assumptions to rationalize your ignorance.
Also, If we assume that your story about Venezuelan friend is true, it directly contradicts the very point you made in your previous comment. The OC specifically pointed out how he gets annoyed when illegal immigrants get more entitled than his family, who has struggled greatly to get into this country legally. You immediately accused him and his family of being privileged, wealthy, and having the right background even though you know nothing about OC, his family, what they went through, or what’s required to immigrate here legally. Right after saying this, you go ahead and provide this anecdote where you talk about how your friend ILLEGALLY immigrated here, PAID her way through the system by hiring American lawyers using thousands of dollars of her own money as well as money you lent her, and then had the right background to get accepted in the end. That’s literally the privilege you were accusing the OC’s family of having.
If you have no idea of legal immigration actually works, why are you talking so confidently about it to people who have actually gone through it? It seems your only experience with immigration is a single indirect case of illegal immigration, and your knowledge doesn’t extend past that. Where do you get off telling us what our experiences were like when you don’t even know what you’re talking about? That’s just arrogance.
Uh, yes I do. I helped a very close friend of mine immigrate to America. She came here from Venezuela illegally, then immediately started the process.
Don’t tell me that it isn’t expensive, and doesn’t take lawyers, because I lent her several thousand dollars to cover the costs. Even though she was working hard to resolve her situation, she was still technically illegal while the process played out.
That was about 10 years ago, and she just became a legal citizen in December.
Your family was from Iraq, a country that we deliberately broke. So while your family didn’t have much, it’s likely that your family had special treatment because of America’s special relationship with Iraq at the time. I doubt your situation was the same as the person who just slips in from some random country.
What are you even on about lmao? Ever since the Persian Gulf war back in the 1990s, Iraq was heavily sanctioned by the US and immigration was very difficult, and this was doubly so after 9/11 and the 2003 invasion. The US ever since then has had ADDITIONAL layers of mandatory screening, background checks, paperwork, and interviews compared to other countries. The heightened scrutiny that Iraqis had to go through when applying to immigration to the US is iconic. That’s the “special treatment” my family went through. Not to mention that we were Iraqi citizens living in Syria at the time when we did our immigration process so even if there was any of that elusive special treatment, it didn’t cover us. But that’s the thing, you literally know nothing about me, my family, or the immigration process to get here. You’re just making up assumptions to rationalize your ignorance.
Also, If we assume that your story about Venezuelan friend is true, it directly contradicts the very point you made in your previous comment. The OC specifically pointed out how he gets annoyed when illegal immigrants get more entitled than his family, who has struggled greatly to get into this country legally. You immediately accused him and his family of being privileged, wealthy, and having the right background even though you know nothing about OC, his family, what they went through, or what’s required to immigrate here legally. Right after saying this, you go ahead and provide this anecdote where you talk about how your friend ILLEGALLY immigrated here, PAID her way through the system by hiring American lawyers using thousands of dollars of her own money as well as money you lent her, and then had the right background to get accepted in the end. That’s literally the privilege you were accusing the OC’s family of having.
If you have no idea of legal immigration actually works, why are you talking so confidently about it to people who have actually gone through it? It seems your only experience with immigration is a single indirect case of illegal immigration, and your knowledge doesn’t extend past that. Where do you get off telling us what our experiences were like when you don’t even know what you’re talking about? That’s just arrogance.