Comments on: Immigration USA: The New Political Currency? http://migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/12/13/126/ The official Web log for Great Decisions 2007 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 00:50:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.0 by: R.Basas http://migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/12/13/126/#comment-687 Thu, 01 May 2008 16:44:21 +0000 http://migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/12/13/126/#comment-687 I couldnt agree with you more, but the problem with considering immigration from a purely legal perspective is that it does not reflect the reality of the situation of many immigrants living in the United States. The situation has really gone so out of the control of many authorities because many of the immigrants are invisible to the system, and ones voting for the increased status of those immigrants are for rights for non documented people. If there is no visa, no papers or passports there, and it becomes a human rights issues when creating a mass re-importation of many people outside of the US, then what good are visas and laws that are unable to be implemented. The issue has become very political as it allows for invisible currency in dealing with an issue that not a single politician knows how to tackle in a simple way. This was the point of the statements of these candidates. They need to address the issue, as opposed to forcing solutions that everyone knows that would not work in any practical way. It is clearly an unsolvable issue for now as no one has figured out how to do this in a meaningful way, and the only result is a continuation of the inequal status quo. I too have worked in the legal field with immigrants and refugees, and it works for those in the system, but to be realistic, there are whole communities numbering over 15 million people that are not going anywhere and have no legal status. A legal based solution must also address the real problems, otherwise it is just simply poorly written legislation. New forms of policy must be created to deal with illegal immigration, and the candidates know this.  I couldnt agree with you more, but the problem with considering immigration from a purely legal perspective is that it does not reflect the reality of the situation of many immigrants living in the United States. The situation has really gone so out of the control of many authorities because many of the immigrants are invisible to the system, and ones voting for the increased status of those immigrants are for rights for non documented people. If there is no visa, no papers or passports there, and it becomes a human rights issues when creating a mass re-importation of many people outside of the US, then what good are visas and laws that are unable to be implemented. The issue has become very political as it allows for invisible currency in dealing with an issue that not a single politician knows how to tackle in a simple way. This was the point of the statements of these candidates. They need to address the issue, as opposed to forcing solutions that everyone knows that would not work in any practical way. It is clearly an unsolvable issue for now as no one has figured out how to do this in a meaningful way, and the only result is a continuation of the inequal status quo. I too have worked in the legal field with immigrants and refugees, and it works for those in the system, but to be realistic, there are whole communities numbering over 15 million people that are not going anywhere and have no legal status. A legal based solution must also address the real problems, otherwise it is just simply poorly written legislation. New forms of policy must be created to deal with illegal immigration, and the candidates know this. 

]]> by: ANNA http://migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/12/13/126/#comment-685 Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:59:01 +0000 http://migration.foreignpolicyblogs.com/2007/12/13/126/#comment-685 Regardless of their country of origin, an “undocumented alien” or “undocumented immigrant” is, after all, an illegal alien. On a global scale, citizenship is defined by the local government, and the rules for traveling to, and remaining in, foreign countries is set up by those governments. No country on the planet has a problem ejecting, deporting or even incarcerating those who attempt to remain in-country with expired, forged or nonexistent papers such as a travel visa or passport. ================================================= anna ================================================= New York Immigration Lawyer Marina Shepelsky, located in Brooklyn, assists clients from the New York metro area and across the United States in all immigration and naturalization matters <a href="http://www.e-us-visa.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.e-us-visa.com</a> Regardless of their country of origin, an “undocumented alien” or “undocumented immigrant” is, after all, an illegal alien. On a global scale, citizenship is defined by the local government, and the rules for traveling to, and remaining in, foreign countries is set up by those governments. No country on the planet has a problem ejecting, deporting or even incarcerating those who attempt to remain in-country with expired, forged or nonexistent papers such as a travel visa or passport.

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New York Immigration Lawyer Marina Shepelsky, located in Brooklyn, assists clients from the New York metro area and across the United States in all immigration and naturalization matters
http://www.e-us-visa.com

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