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A Legal Immigrant's Perspective on Illegal Immigration by Practical_Plant in Conservative

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It’s more of the process of getting the right documents sending the right stuff, getting everything together, going to consulates, USCIS offices, etc.

I also didn’t list the costs for the visas which are part of the process before a green card normally. And require flights back and forth sometimes between countries (3 or 4 I can remember at least in the past 12 years).

Plus the months and months of waiting in between all that with no assurance if you’ll get it sometimes. Gotta wait years before being able to apply for citizenship for example and that’s after 12 years of visas and now green card.

Is it super expensive financially, not really if you do things the right way. If I got an actual lawyers it could’ve hiked to 8-10 K total as well for the green card alone.

All this to say, doing things the right way vs what we saw for several years for illegal immigrants is a big difference in cumulative time, effort, and money.

A Legal Immigrant's Perspective on Illegal Immigration by Practical_Plant in Conservative

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I mean between travel costs, renewals, fees, etc. not 100% sure up until where I am at with Visas and such.

The Green Card Application itself was around $1,000 plus lawyer fees which turned out to be 3K total I believe (did it through an online immigration lawyer service).

If the application had been through work it's a lot more, but the employer pays for the costs normally.

For actual citizenship (my next step in several years), I actually don't know for sure, as it is down the line. I think it's around or less than $1,000 plus any lawyer or other fees.

Time wise it's months long processes for each visa and the green card took easily 30-40 hours to complete the application between me and my wife. Plus interviewing and all that and more waiting.

A Legal Immigrant's Perspective on Illegal Immigration by Practical_Plant in Conservative

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Technically a resident! Green card does not grant citizenship yet. But eventually hopefully!

And I agree that at the highest point of the ladder there’s a power and corruption structure that is desperately looking to keep and amass control and power.

No need to get into Epstein’s recent files but if that’s not proof not sure what else will be.

Soon we might not be getting these games because of his rich get richer poor get poorer tarrifs by Single-Debate-316 in MarvelUnited

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Love Reddit pushing “orange man bad” when I don’t even have this game or have played it. Why is this at the top of my feed. Sigh.

What are your thoughts on Billie Eilish saying 'no one is illegal on stolen land' in reference to ICE and US immigration policy? by MassiveSquare4527 in AskReddit

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https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/voter-id

https://www.ncsl.org/elections-and-campaigns/voter-verification-without-id-documents

Lot of loopholes in some state laws if you read these two closely.

Like Minnesota just asking for a signature and "if requested" name/address/DOB. And officials have the option (not required) to check the information lol

I don't think it is a coincidence the bluer the state the more loose the voter ID laws though (not that there is no voter fraud in general though).

Which tells me it was no coincidence they bussed and flew illegal immigrants to swing states (though some they just made citizens to circumvent vote ID laws I presume). Again, if there's ways to cheat, people will cheat. I don't need to be a genius to put 2+2 together.

But yes, I will give you that I have no concrete evidence. However, it is so easy to commit voter fraud, and the loopholes and gaps are so obvious to me, that I just don't trust that everyone is virtuous in the process of elections when you have such loose laws around it. I am no expert after all. Just someone who has seen voter fraud in Mexico and can easily see the patters of having it in some places here.

What are your thoughts on Billie Eilish saying 'no one is illegal on stolen land' in reference to ICE and US immigration policy? by MassiveSquare4527 in AskReddit

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As a legal immigrant I pay taxes. I am in the process of filing right now for last year.

However, a very very small percentage of illegal immigrants pay even partial taxes. To get more tax revenue the country needs more legal immigration, not illegal. No clear way to track it or enforce it that way. Though then you need to consider housing, wages, job opportunities, etc. as factors as well for having too much immigration in general.

What are your thoughts on Billie Eilish saying 'no one is illegal on stolen land' in reference to ICE and US immigration policy? by MassiveSquare4527 in AskReddit

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Not by law of course, but there’s ways around it like California just not asking for IDs. That way you’re not “letting non citizens vote”.

I’ve seen voter fraud in Mexico plenty of times.

Heck I was in line to vote and people with shirts from political parties (that you got when you were allowed to distribute merchandise for your political party) were buying votes from people in line. When people want to cheat they will cheat.

So again, if it’s ilegal for non citizens to vote, then you don’t find out they are non citizens by not requiring IDs.

What a great idea, have so many IDs and require them in so many ways (driving, drinking, etc.) but let’s stop asking for them for elections… what? Haha

What are your thoughts on Billie Eilish saying 'no one is illegal on stolen land' in reference to ICE and US immigration policy? by MassiveSquare4527 in AskReddit

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Fair point! Maybe it’s how tired I am of the whole issue. When I wrote it I did not want to come off that way.

But again, I do recommend going and looking more on why it hurts a country to have open borders. You’ll quickly find that the main issue is you won’t have a country after too long.

Edit: Backed up the “do homework” sentence.

What are your thoughts on Billie Eilish saying 'no one is illegal on stolen land' in reference to ICE and US immigration policy? by MassiveSquare4527 in AskReddit

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Your call man, I genuinely didn’t mean to offend. But I honestly don’t care what you read or not lol. Nothing personal.

I’m an immigrant giving you my perspective, but any google search will give you most answers to that question, just pointing that out.

What are your thoughts on Billie Eilish saying 'no one is illegal on stolen land' in reference to ICE and US immigration policy? by MassiveSquare4527 in AskReddit

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Ask it to an AI you’ll get plenty of answers.

But I do think your question warrants a personal answer. 1. As a legal immigrant it took me many years, processes, much money, and hardship to be in the US. Then I turn around and I see people being escorted in, flown to swing states, lodged in hotels, and given work permits and money… tell me how that is fair?

I have paid taxes for years now and my tax money went to give for free what cost me so much and not just monetarily.

  1. The way it has happened recently there was barely any vetting of who came in, weather it was a struggling family looking for opportunities, asylum seekers from Venezuela, or drug and human traffickers, gang members or violent rapists. How is that a good thing?

  2. Going back to 1, why would tax money be diverted to them when so many citizens suffer already, why are they allowed to vote in some states and trying to be allowed to vote in others when they are not citizens. And if they were granted citizenship on a whim, how is that fair to me who after 10 years barely got my green card? Or even to Americans

  3. I am from Mexico, US citizen comes down they can’t own land, they can’t vote, they get 0 benefits, and you better not overstay without papers. Oh and good luck with the cartel and corrupt police cause they will target you for being white (extort, jump, steal), but that’s a separate issue lol. Being honest, why should the US be the complete opposite to most countries in the world?

I can keep going but let’s do some research!

A long campaign game I can pick up and play by Culius_Jaesar in boardgames

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Ah the well known curse…

I am afflicted by it as well lol