re: I Spent 14 Years Trying to Become an American Legally & Failed

Best of luck to you. America needs your type and needs to deport the illegals. That would go a long way toward MAGA

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Pics...I dig them Indian gals...

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Nope. It is a ridiculous immigration issue in which they have made repeated mistakes which has costed us months each time. It’s why I decided to comment, because the immigration system is definitely broken and unjust, even to those who are doing it legally, even in cases such as ours where we should be in Louisiana right now. You’re damn right reality is a bitch, and you can feel it when you’re on the wrong side of it, too. ETA: I don’t think you’re wrong at all about us lacking the infrastructure to take just anybody, but we cannot fault a single person for trying to better themselves instead of staying in a corrupt country. We just can’t say such a thing when we haven’t lived on that side.

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The irony of your situation is that the OP who is an educated, trained person is being held up by people like yourself who want to get their spouse in. What skills and education level does your wife have?

It should be EASY for people to come here and work. We've made it nearly impossible. We became the greatest country in the world because of our Constitution and the willingness of hard working people from around the world to risk everything to come here. I feel like the Rs have lost sight of this. The Ds are using immigration and the welfare state to create new voters. In the meantime, both parties are destroying this country. It's fricking amazing.....

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We aren't going to allow every Indian who wants to come to USA in at once, obviously. The demand is huge.

What do you think should happen?

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Yup. It is a shitty situation with no easy fix. I'm an engineer and I work with a LOT of Indian immigrants. They are almost all great and wonderful people. They would be great additions to this country who would have no problems assimilating.

The problem is there are just too many that want to work here. We literally can't take them all even if we stopped all other legal immigration paths.

That is painful to hear and I sympathize with your struggles. My grandfather, long ago brought his entire family to America. All my aunts, uncles and father, got green cards. Not gonna lie, it took some of them decades to become citizens. But they were all here legally and became productive Americans. I know it was easier back then as you didn't have nearly as many trying to get in. I do agree that 90% of the solution is to reform the immigration process. It is broken, and was built for a smaller number of immigrants applying. How do you fix it? It starts with voting people into office that are serious about change. We've been listening to the same politicians talk about changing and fixing the system. The problem is that they only talk about it on an election or re-election year, then do nothing. I predict the bad orange man in the oval office will be the one who makes the biggest most meaningful improvements to immigration, despite what the media say. He is pro immigration. He just doesn't want scum bags coming in. And they ostracize him for saying so. Why? Because they hate him, because he isn't like them. He is a 9 pound hammer, and a bull in a china shop. He's going to break a lot of china, but mark my words, he will do more to fix immigration than anyone else has in our lifetimes.

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Have you considered fixing your own country so you wouldn't have to join the millions in line waiting to come here?

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I am just trying to get a better life for me and my family man. What's the difference between what I am doing and what someone that was born and raised in Baton Rouge, but then moved to Houston or Atlanta for better career opportunities? I am just an ordinary guy that wants to focus on my career, family and play by the rules whereever I am. I don't consider myself to be some big change agent that is going to fix a country that has its own issues like all countries. I am not cut out for such greatnesss.

You say this:

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In India alone there are tens if not hundreds of millions dreaming to immigrate to the US - that's why the waitlist is 80 years. Imagine the positive change those numbers could bring to their own homeland if they joined together and focused that energy inward to improving what they already have and know.

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And then follow-up with this:

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I speak from experience having spent almost 30 years immigrating two dozen extended family members here from a country with a 20-year wait list. You?

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Did you ask any of those two dozen family members whether they wanted to stay back in their own country and improve it instead of coming here?

Why does thought process apply to me, but not to your own family? Are you missing the irony here?

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Some people ask why do you go through all this shite just to live in America, and the answer everytime is opportunity.

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Crazy how many spoiled natives disagree with you. But I agree with you.

It's an absolute shame how difficult, slow, expensive, and wasteful the process is. Like everything the government runs. Unfortunately there's no way to privatize this one.

Keep at it. We need more Great Americans!