DLR, perhaps you have no idea of just how difficult and expensive it is to become a citizen for the people that want to become a citizen.
There are hoops and red tape that can last for years, big time bucks spent in some cases.
Like all businesses, there are the crooks and nasty's that pray on the poor and the middle class who wish to bring their family to America.
Any serviceman that married a woman over seas, brings them home and wants them to become a citizen faces a couple of years of paper work and filing fees. The Lawyers charge $400-$600 to file each and every paper.
Then the immigrants ---------I know of one, a man with money that sponsors the kids from his country and when all is said and done the kids are little more then slaves to him.
He DEMANDS 60% of their pay to repay him, and if one becomes unable to work, he has them deported back from where they come from.
This is much like the Company Store in the past, they give one a home, and food but all is deducted from their pay check and are at risk of being fired at any time.
I found out that the immigrants that had to wait years to become citizens and had to pay thousands to become so are not happy with the illegals that pay no taxes or have to go through what they had to do.
Take Nads a non American born female married to a man on a nuclear Submarine, I cannot imagine the security clearance she had to go through.
It's only hard if you come here legally, like my cousin-in-law. He's from Mexico, too, he just decided not to commit a crime on his way through the door. And it should be hard! Most countries on the planet have extremely strict immigration laws. Ours seem too lax by comparison, yet we get bitched at by everyone on the planet about not letting illegals get instant citizenship because they managed to make it over a wall and then not giving them every handout the left can come up with.
And, if a family member (son, daughter, husband, wife, etc.) joining the military needs any kind of security clearance, the family practically gets an anal probe. Probably why Bradly Manning was so successful, he enjoyed it. When we went through it, we had to provide information clear back to preschool. Living in America is a privilege (well, under 0bama, not so much) and if you're not willing to "jump through hoops" (i.e. meet all the requirements) then you don't deserve to be here.
Cindie
