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Ms. Burden and her colleagues distribute knapsacks full of informative flashcards and DVDs. They fan out around the city to conduct community workshops. Last year the New York office naturalized around 90,000 people, something like 90 percent of those who applied.
Seated near Ms. Burden as she spoke were people from Canada, the Dominican Republic, Bosnia, Iran, Afghanistan, Colombia, China, Haiti, Nigeria whatever assortment the day brought. Having gotten themselves safely to our shores, having beaten the odds and secured a green card, having held that card for at least five years (three for those married to citizens), having filled out Form N-400 and paid $675, they were waiting to undergo an interview
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/nyregion/04critic.html
I have this comment to the Senator, by advocating a blanket pardon to all those who broke Federal Law to enter this nation he has told all those 90k people and tens of thousands more over the years that paid, did the hard work to become a cittizen that what they did did not matter and that basically they were fools to go through all that to begin with. Perhaps the best solution for all those here that have broken the law is not to look for solutions to placate them but rather simply enforce the law. The perhaps the Sen. can look to other solutions that fit the issue like a guest worker program and an actual Immigration bill that punishes those that hire slave labor and create the need for those that traffic in human beings.
Indeed. And you have to put yourself into the shoes of those that followed the law...the rules...did everything that was required...and to hear talk of what they did was all for naught.