http://www.wildtangents.net/2006/04/08/my-input-on-immigration/ Marc talks about life in Nashville, life as a Catholic and life as a geek. Sun, 22 Aug 2010 11:46:00 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.wildtangents.net/2006/04/08/my-input-on-immigration/comment-page-1/#comment-289 Stormare Mackee Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:47:46 +0000 http://www.wildtangents.net/2006/04/08/my-input-on-immigration/#comment-289 I went through the legal immigration hell in 1997-2003 (yes, five years) at the cost of well over $5,000 in travel, lost wages, fees that had to be paid over and over again due to lost paperwork etc. The government has <b>never</b> appropriated sufficient funds to run the USCIS even with the existing caseload (I think the case backlog is several years even in straightforward cases), and none of the "immigration reform" bills contain any additional funding for the USCIS, either. Read <a href="http://www.losangeleschronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=6857" rel="nofollow">this article</a> about the corruption and mismanagement in the USCIS. Anyone who thinks there'd be a chance of "remuneration" to legal immigrants is smoking crack. I went through the legal immigration hell in 1997-2003 (yes, five years) at the cost of well over $5,000 in travel, lost wages, fees that had to be paid over and over again due to lost paperwork etc. The government has never appropriated sufficient funds to run the USCIS even with the existing caseload (I think the case backlog is several years even in straightforward cases), and none of the “immigration reform” bills contain any additional funding for the USCIS, either. Read this article about the corruption and mismanagement in the USCIS. Anyone who thinks there’d be a chance of “remuneration” to legal immigrants is smoking crack.

]]> http://www.wildtangents.net/2006/04/08/my-input-on-immigration/comment-page-1/#comment-157 Katherine Coble Mon, 10 Apr 2006 14:37:27 +0000 http://www.wildtangents.net/2006/04/08/my-input-on-immigration/#comment-157 Yep. I can. In fact, every place where I've advocated any kind of partial amnesty I've said that any plan should involve remuneration for folks like yourself. Yep. I can. In fact, every place where I’ve advocated any kind of partial amnesty I’ve said that any plan should involve remuneration for folks like yourself.

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