UNDOCUMENTED, not illegal, immigrants

the largest misconception on immigration is that people who are here without documents do it as a disregard to US laws. the fact is that not only is immigration a difficult and long process, not everyone is able to immigrate "legally." thousands of people are turned away from the whole process because honestly, you won't get papers to become a resident unless you are at or above US middle class standards. the only other way is to claim to be a political refugee; seeing as how many 3rd world countries are deemed "free" countries because they allow for sweatshops and worker exploitation how many people can fit under that? look to the 1965 Immigration and Nationality Act for who is allowed to come here and who isn't. it is highly hypocritical for a country to claim to be about Freedom and democracy yet turn people away from citizenship.

foreign worker programs are also cop outs as well, the message that sends is "we want your labor, but we don't want you to become citizens."

the thing about the new immigration bill is that it leaves many situations for family separation. there are families with undocumented parents whose children are legal citizens; the parents are deported and the children are left to be raised by foster homes? or a citizen who married someone who was a legal resident for a while but stopped with their paper work and didn't tell their spouse. not only is the person deported, but the citizen is deported as well for housing an "illegal" immigrant (doesn't matter if they knew or not.)

also the immigration issue has been painted as a mexican issue. yet pilipinos have their "tnt"s, there are chinese immigrants, koreans, south east asians, not to mention eastern europeans, as well as the fact that the people coming from mexico are not just mexicans but people from all over latin america. after 9-11 many filipinos who had worked in the airports for over decades in the bay area were deported because they posed a "threat" to national security, many of these workers were 40+ year old women (yeah terrorist if i ever saw one). there are also the situation of the Aganda family in 2003, as well as the Cuevas family that was deported in 2004 who were "illegal" cause they were living on expired visas yet they've been applying for residency since 1996. frankly, there's a bunch of "natural born" people we waste our citizenship on, folks that don't know jack shit about this country yet wave flags and pander on and on about being "American." i'd rather deport them and give their citizenship to all the hard working "illegal" aliens at the drop of a dime.

however, the biggest root of the problem is American/corporate Imperialism across the globe. if not for worker exploitation, the stealing of resources from other countries, etc; there would be no "3rd" world nations meaning there wouldn't be so many people from other places seeking to find opportunity in the US. there would be no "brain drains," no sex industries, no broken families with parents working overseas. people would be able to make decent livings in their own countries. the only illegal immigration are corporations and nations muscling their way into the other countries to exploit both the land and their people.