On Tue, 01 Jun 2004 23:50:28 -0700, Scipio
wrote:
>On 1 Jun 2004 22:41:26 -0700, amanda992004@yahoo.com (Amanda) wrote:
>
>>Scipio wrote in message news:...
>>> On 28 May 2004 08:25:27 -0700, amanda992004@yahoo.com (Amanda) wrote:
>>>
>>> >"Godzilla Pimp" wrote in message news:<1Kwtc.28250$zO3.18030@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>...
>>> >> > Some Latino legislators say they are prepared to vote against the state
>>> >> > budget if the governor does not support a bill giving the immigrants
>>> >> > licenses once they clear background checks and satisfy other security
>>> >> > precautions.
>>> >>
>>> >> How the hell do you do a "background check" on a goddamn illegal alien? And
>>> >> why the . aren't they being deported? Arnold is nothing but a girly-man.
>>> >>
>>> >> GP
>>> >
>>> >There are illegal aliens who entered legally and there are those who
>>> >didn't enter legally (undocumented). Those enetered legally, usually
>>> >have bank accounts, and house. The car is in a relative's name. She
>>> >is waiting to do adjustment of status; she entered on visit visa and
>>> >cannot change to student visa once GC petition has been filed. She
>>> >goes to college and yet she can't apply for Drivers License. So she
>>> >uses Int'l Driver's License.
>>> >
>>> >People in her category should get state DL.
>>>
>>> If she entered legally, and planned to remain illegaly, she doesn't
>>> have any such thing coming to here. So long as people outside this
>>> country come with a mind to treat our visas and immigration as
>>> something to be gamed and cheated, they have disqualified themselves
>>> from any consideration.
>>
>>She didn't plan to cheat. While visiting here, the US citizen sibling
>>(has been a citizen for 12 years) was diagnosed with cancer. So the
>>visitor sticks around.
>
>She does sound special and deserving. Can she prove this? Or more to
>the point, how do I, as an official, avoid being gamed, cheated and
>bs-ed by every ***hole on earth if I allow these document issues to
>not really mean what they say. All the bad guys and line-cutters have
>stories too, you know.
Everybody has a "story" that makes them sound "special and deserving".
While we should try to accommodate people who truly fall into this
category, we need to be fairly hard about it. The minute you make an
exception, you open the door to abuse.
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