You claimed that Mexicans were not trying to feed their kids and all were just coming to work in this country just wanted to get rich quick. How are your friends and relatives any different?
I'm quite sure my Guatemalan neighbor's father would have liked to have had the time and the leisure to apply for a visa and green card before coming but unfortunately the death threat was for the following day.
"all they had to do was sneak over the border"
Very naive assumption on your part. They were hidden in hollowed out seats in a van and were terrified of being caught. They had to continue to live with that fear everyday and could never go back to see the family members left behind.
I have an Italian friend who could never get her green card either, despite being married to a legal resident whose family owns a business here and despite her having quite a lot of money and not needing to work. I didn't understand it. The reason given was that she made too many trips back to Italy to see family and friends and had never spent an entire year non stop in the US. Why that mattered, I have no idea.
So, I also am puzzled by who gets in and who doesn't but I am not bitter enough about it to hate those who succeed.
I had to sponsor my Canadian brother-in-law also. And did so gladly. But he wasn't fleeing any death threats. He got damn rich here in the US too.
My friends escaped Hungary when the communists took over. They were refused entry to this country. My relatives in laws were in love and MARRIED to my relatives.
Your friends, NEVER paid the fees, had the background checks, or the medical checks, for all we know, they could bring the new H1N1 virus into this country by coming ILLEGALLY. My sister in law was almost denied entry simply because she had a bullet in her body. She has no memory of when it happened, nor would her mother tell her....
You friends snuck in and for all you know, could have been carrying the plague with them. The fact that they didn't is just happenstance. You don't think the increase of tuberculosis has anything to do with the increase of illegals?
There are reasons we have immigration laws.......ignoring them is criminal, and protecting people who break them is criminal and your former employers should be in jail. You friends should have been deported instead of granted amnesty. All previous amnesties have done is increase illegal immigration because now more illegals want to get in on the next amnesty.
BTW, my friends from Hungary were fleeing for their lives too.....and they were still denied entry yet they didn't sneak in and expect our government to take care of them.....still want to slap you for believing your friends deserve more rights than mine or my relatives. Your friends are not better than my friends, they are merely luckier and more criminal.