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This. This is the case for almost every single person who is not marrying a citizen and originally entered legally. There are pretty much zero legal channels to immigrate here in any timely manner. You have to expect to be waiting at LEAST 10 to 15 years if you’re sponsoring a parent or sibling. THAT is why we have so many undocumented immigrants.
They were just giving out ten year visas and letting them build up a life then offering no pathway to citizenship from there so the visas just expired and they become undocumented and living here illegally. I think what people are missing is a lot of these undocumented immigrants DID originally come here legally, we just don’t really have any open pathways to citizenship.
Comment by veilosa at 24/01/2025 at 20:35 UTC*
14 upvotes, 1 direct replies
the biggest thing that makes people undocumented is just the government not giving them a document.
it's literally a self made issue.
Comment by Opening_AI at 25/01/2025 at 05:47 UTC
1 upvotes, 0 direct replies
sure, but you can't sustain an open border policy where after 10 years you become a citizen either....
we are ALL immigrants or descendants of immigrants, even the tang man; there are finite resources...is there a right way to do this? I wish there was but it is a complicated issue.