I don’t think many Americans realize how difficult it is to come to America legally.
Among my own friends, I know an academic who has spent the past year in legal limbo, not allowed to work between teaching positions and constantly waiting to learn whether he can stay in America.
In Georgia, I know a couple — the husband is American, the wife British — who can still not legalize as a couple, despite years of marriage and years of being together, who want to get themselves to America.
The only reason I mention the plight of the law-abiding is because it stands in such stark contrast to the situation of the law-breaking.
Our pro-immigration politicians in America are loudly on the side of anyone who comes to America illegally.
But it is rare to find representatives who are on the side of people who are trying to do everything by the book.
While lots of representatives speak up for the law-breaking, few speak up for or help the law-abiding.
That is because it is perfectly clear that the immigration situation in this country has run away from its representatives.
Human cost
The human scale of this is devastating
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Author: Ruth King
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