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It seems that you have a good grasp of the reasons put forward against giving you citizenship. A lot of them boil down to rule of law arguments of some sort avo
by netsp 17y ago
It seems that you have a good grasp of the reasons put forward against giving you citizenship. A lot of them boil down to rule of law arguments of some sort avoiding arbitrary rules that let you cherry pick the people you want (educated, productive, culturally American, etc.).
Maintaining the ability to keep people out when they want in requires cruelty. The tighter you want to keep the control, the crueller. The more they want in, the crueller. If you want to really really close a border, you need to be willing to kill people.
Have you ever considered going in to some sort of open battle about this. You're educated. It seems like you have the ability to articulate your position well. You would be able to gain empathy from Americans who will see you as an American under threat of deportation. Are there any support/advice channels for illegal immigrants in the NY?
- jacquesm 17y agoHe/she might be deported, that's not a very smart thing to do. When you're illegal somewhere your best chance is to lay low until there is some legislation that favors you. Here in NL there was a guy from Turkey, that had started his own business. Very very successful, in fact, so successful that a newspaper decided to use him as the poster child for illegal immigrants that should get a passport. Not that long afterwards he was deported, simply for having become 'visible'.