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Pathway to citizenship for long-time illegal residents.
I am a Republican and I could see myself supporting such a law. I suppose most Democrats would support it, but I know some Republicans absolutely would not.
What's your position? .......... Are you a 'send em all back' type to the end, or more like a 'well, since they are here, just leave them alone' type or just a 'hands off' type..?
The pathway would be the same pathway as everyone else uses.
I prefer a pathway to legal status before a pathway to citizenship, but a pathway to citizenship is better than those Democrats who support amnesty or the Trump approach.
Pathway to citizenship for long-time illegal residents.
I am a Republican and I could see myself supporting such a law. I suppose most Democrats would support it, but I know some Republicans absolutely would not.
What's your position? .......... Are you a 'send em all back' type to the end, or more like a 'well, since they are here, just leave them alone' type or just a 'hands off' type..?
My pathway to citizenship began 20 years earlier. The endless forms, the medicals, the interviews, the fingerprints, the FBI background checks, the waiting and waiting and waiting, the money and more money.
And then after being here for 15 years studying for the civics exam, traveling across the state for another interview, the fingerprints again, the FBI background check again, more forms and more money.
Never had to look over my shoulder wondering if or when the feds were going to pick me up and deport me. Didn't have to buy a fake ID or use a fake social security number.
Did it the right way because I followed the law. Did it the right way because I respected my adopted country. Did it the right way because doing it the wrong way isn't in my DNA. Now ask me my position on illegals and pathways to citizenship.
Give a dreamers and illegals a pathway to citizenship as long as they become citizens within 5 years. But if you break the law anytime after you start the process, you lose out and get shipped back with no chance of ever becoming a citizen. If they don't take up the offer, ship them back to where ever they came from.
I've been reading your posts for a good long while now. I never expected this moderate answer from you. Good deal.
Pathway to citizenship for long-time illegal residents.
I am a Republican and I could see myself supporting such a law. I suppose most Democrats would support it, but I know some Republicans absolutely would not.
What's your position? .......... Are you a 'send em all back' type to the end, or more like a 'well, since they are here, just leave them alone' type or just a 'hands off' type..?
There has always been a pathway to citizenship.
Should people who break our laws be rewarded by getting an advantage over those who don't?
Pathway to citizenship for long-time illegal residents.
I am a Republican and I could see myself supporting such a law. I suppose most Democrats would support it, but I know some Republicans absolutely would not.
What's your position? .......... Are you a 'send em all back' type to the end, or more like a 'well, since they are here, just leave them alone' type or just a 'hands off' type..?
I have mixed feeling about this. I agree with what you are saying, but there would have to be a lot of steps to this. 1- pay a penalty for living here illegally: 3-show a good work record: no criminal record, not even misdemeanor and a willingness to learn and speak English for starters. I can't imagine splitting up families just because grandpa who has no family left in his native country and is advancing in age, just because he came over the border 40 years ago, but they must apply for citizenship asap.
Amnesty was granted to millions of illegal alien back during the Reagan administration with a democratic controlled congress with a promise they would soon fund building a wall...we now know how that worked out.
Yes and Reagan signed the bill more to protect those coming here from El Salvador.
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