For someone who has been through visa abuse, exploitation, threats of deportation, and so on, getting a green card is like opening a book to day 1 of your life.

For someone who has been through visa abuse, exploitation, threats of deportation, and so on, getting a green card is like opening a book to day 1 of your life. You get your humanity back. If you have a great run in the US on a visa, great. But it's not like that for everyone.