Dear Editor:
I just finished reading Mr. Alan Lee's article entitled, "The Next Amnesty? Can You Prepare For It?" on ILW.COM. As always, the flaw in every immigration bill is the fact that they pander
only to illegal aliens, and not those who are only temporarily legal. To be
very specific, my son, now 21 years old, has been living in the US legally
for 20 years. He is still legal, since his I-94 (as a dependent E-2
recipient) expires in April 2004. But because of the length of time he has
spent in the US and because I was denied when I applied for an E-13
immigrant visa (although I have retained my E-2 visa) because the INS
claimed that my business was too small, having only $400,000 in net equity
at the time of my application, we already know that my son will be denied
when he applies for an adjustment of status to F-1 before his I-94 expires
next year, because the past will show "immigrant intent". So if H.R. 2899
passes while my son is legal, then he is not covered, and gets left out in
the dust to fend for himself as an illegal alien, when all he has done is to
obey the law for the last 20 years. Do you see the utter stupidity of the
people who draft these immigration bills? I have been an investor and have
provided jobs to Americans for over 20 years, and yet my family is not
welcome as permanent residents in this country. My son, a senior at U.C.
Berkeley majoring in Math and minoring in Computer Science, has always been a 4.0 student until now, when his GPA finally dropped to 3.8 as a result of his worries over his legal status. Consequently, I just this week managed to convince my son for us to give up the fight, and to move to Canada with us early month, where he has been
accepted for late enrollment into Canada's top university, after explaining
to the admission officials how unreasonable the US government, and US Immigration are. This is a perfect example of how America's failure to act
fast, and act correctly, continues to result in America's loss and in the
gain of another country. I do not discount the possibility that someday in
the distant future (and maybe in the very near future), great grandchildren
of members of Congress will be looking to immigrate to Australia, Canada,
Norway, or some other country, simply because their great grandparents did
not do what was right.
M.M.
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