The article did not really give more information than I had already heard and read.  But then I thought it was a lemon from the get go.

Can Simon get a Z-Visa?

I researched after I posted - sorry for the stupid question. At least the Z-Visa isn't citizenship.

My parents spent about 20.000 American dollars by the time it was all said and done for the three of us to get over here.

It took seventeen years altogether to complete the process.

Am I pissed? Hell motherfucking yes I'm pissed.

I think my family and you and your husband should get refunds, little-whip.

Dammit all to hell.

On top of that, as anyone who has recently been to the American South West (or Miami for that matter) can tell you, hispanic immigrants not only actively resist assimilating but many of them are openly hostile to the United States and see the American Southwest as belonging to their native country.

I can vouch for that. I have lived in Miami and other parts of South Florida for about 10 years now and let me tell you this area of Florida looks more and more like a Hispanic country everyday. Everything here can be found in Spanish, there is always someone who can talk Spanish in any place of business you go to, some supermarkets sell only Hispanic products, God forbid if they even bothered a little to learn English, even the schools accomodate Hispanic kids with Spanish speaking teachers and staff, people automatically talk to me in Spanish simply because they see my Hispanic side and even more interesting Spanish as a second language or even first is a must in most jobs here when applying. I may as well stayed in Puerto Rico, not much diffrerence.

I agree with you and the article you posted. If Bush would enforce the existing laws and STOP illegal entry and go after employers that hire illegals we would not have so many illegals. How many came into the U.S. since 9/11?

That is why I posted my Blog:

Bush is NOT Enforcing Our Immigration Laws!

By COL Gene
Posted Thursday, June 07, 2007 on Bush Truth
Discussion: Politics



Bush claims without his Comprehensive Immigration Law he can not secure the border. That is just another Bush LIE. He has the authority to control the border but has failed to act even after 9/11. We have laws to punish employers that hire Illegal’s but Bush does not enforce the laws. We must first STOP people from entering our country illegally and we need to punish employers from hiring illegals.


What Bush wants is to reward people who have broken our laws and the cost of his comprehensive immigration bill to Social Security and Medicare has been estimated by the Heritage Foundation at over $2.5 Trillion dollars. Bush runs around telling us that Social Security is in trouble and then proposes adding yet another obligation by giving 12 Million illegal’s access to those benefits.

I have no idea why Bush is pushing the bill so hard, it doesn't make any sense.

It is good way for Business to get cheep labor.

It is good way for Business to get cheep labor.

A certain amount of realism has to creep into this debate. While I certainly agree that there should be a crackdown on businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants, the business of fake papers is booming. Many of these papers won't pass increased scrutiny, but businesses are not set up to do background checks to find if these papers are legit or not, nor should they be.
Facts have been skewed on this argument for so long its hard to know even the facts. The Wall Street Journal, a pro business paper for sure, has all sorts of articles on the positive effects of immigration. They do not differentiate between legal and illegal immigrants in their articles so they are wholly unfair in viewing this issue.
The problem becomes this. There are estimates of anywhere between 8-20 million illegal immigrants in this country. It is not feasible to deport them all. Those who oppose this immigration bill seem to ignore this.
Any illegal immigration law has several things that need to be considered.
1. Cracking down on businesses that hire illegals.
2. A realistic way to guard our borders. A fence like the Berlin wall is a laughable approach and a total waste of taxpayer money.
3. Creating an environment in other countries that they no longer have the desperation to illegally immigrate.
4. A way of dealing with those illegally here already. I think the current bill has been villified for giving amnesty when those effected have a lengthy process that will take years to complete and includes heavy fines.
5. Deport the criminal element.
For the most part I believe the current bill tries to tackle these issues. We are never going to have a perfect bill.

Little whip, I'm not sure I understand why it is costing so much money to complete your forms. I myself have brought a wife over on a fiance visa, married and got eventual citizenship for my wife at a fraction of what you say it costs. The highest payment I had was the tickets to bring her and her son here.
I paid hundreds on my end to get the visa and then was surprised to hear that she also had to pay hundreds through the consulate, sort of like being double billed. Its been nowhere near as expensive as you state.