My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
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My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
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#2Single page link: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-...
Re: My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
#3Even if I weren't open to letting educated members of society earn a legal green card, I think this would've changed my mind.
The inability to obtain US citizenship even though I was attending a consecutively #1 rated program on the continent, at one of the best schools in the country really dimmed my own hopes. I remember wanting to apply for an internship at MIT Lincoln labs for anti-ballistic missile defense, and being crushed when I realized I couldn't.
Re: My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
#4If anyone is interested in investing in a project to legally provide work opportunities for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children like this journalist, you can send me a message via gmail and I'll pass it on to a law professor I know who is working on this issue with various legal and business leaders in the Bay Area.
Serious inquiries only please, this project is likely to require a significant commitment of financial and/or political capital.
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#5It's really courageous of him to come ahead with his story. I really hope he gets to stay in the country.
Re: My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
#6Properly formatted link http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/26/magazine/my-life-as-an-und...
The guy came out as gay but wouldn't let people know he wasn't a citizen ... that's deep.
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#7I convinced myself that if I worked enough, if I achieved enough, I would be rewarded with citizenship. I felt I could earn it.
Has that ever happened? Reading this gives me a sense of cognitive dissonance between the US as a place 'where anyone can make it' and the US as a legalistic bureaucracy.
[Edit to clarify]
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#8quick google on statute of limitations:
http://codes.ohio.gov/orc/2901.13
6 or 20 years for most crimes, except murders.
Immigration violations seems to not have the statute of limitations, just like the most heinous crimes.
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#9If anyone is interested in investing in a project to legally provide work opportunities for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the US as children like this journalist, you can send me a message via gmail and I'll pass it on to a law professor I know who is working on this issue with various legal and business leaders in the Bay Area. Serious inquiries only please, this project is likely to require a signific…
Working on this issue how? Trying to find/provide work for these people or simply trying to change the law. There's a big difference between the two and knowingly employing an undocumented worker (illegal alien) is a felony.
Re: My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant
#10Even if I weren't open to letting educated members of society earn a legal green card, I think this would've changed my mind. The inability to obtain US citizenship even though I was attending a consecutively #1 rated program on the continent, at one of the best schools in the country really dimmed my own hopes. I remember wanting to apply for an internship at MIT Lincoln labs for anti-ballistic missile defense, and…
Have you tried Canada? We're kind of like the US, but better.