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The whole family is here legally, but can’t seem to get grandma in. I told them to fly her to TJ and pay someone a $1,000 to drive her over.
Do any of these bleeding hearts have row-run immigrant relatives that they have sponsored? Made sworn affidavits to support them financially above the poverty level? Seen how they come here, even the good-hearted ones, and act just about like they did in their home country - ignorant of local customs, driving regulations, taxes, rabies shots for their little doggie or whatever?

There is an important and inevitable connection between those two related statements. "Grandma" and her family are part of the problem. I would like to see a single documented case of the last 40 years of a relative or friend sponsoring a relative and promising to support them permanently without creating a new permanent welfare charge for the American taxpayer.

This creates millions of potential "illegal" charges, enabled by a legislature driven by activists, who forget who elected them for representation : the American Citizen taxpayer.

When the economy collapses, everybody loses, and collapse it must, because the American working, citizen taxpayer literally can't support the entire "poor" of the world wishing to enjoy a better life.

A related issue never discussed is that the Constitution was never intended to apply to foreigners, whether simply illegally in country or terrorists wishing to murder American citizens. That is irrational and suicidal. Plain common sense.

We all know that sponsorship has become an enormous sham, as well as an enormous burden.

"Grandma" will, and invariably has been, awarded all the benefits of lifetime working citizens, often obtaining Social Security (and medical) related benefits superior to native born Americans who have worked all their lives, regardless of "sponsorship."
There is an irreconcilable injustice in that.

A practice that should disappear, sooner, rather than later.

Sponsorship can be as effective if the "sponsoring" relatives support grandma by transferring the "support" funds that they promise to provide directly to the country where "grandma" is living.

I unconditionally oppose this continuing institutionalized fraud enabled by elected criminals who are never spending their own money.

I would like to see a single documented case of the last 40 years of a relative or friend sponsoring a relative and promising to support them permanently without creating a new permanent welfare charge for the American taxpayer. Not permanently. I had to promise to support them until they became citizens or had worked for 10 years, I believe it was. I had to prove I had the assets to support them. They were not to be entitled to certain government benefits. Now, perhaps they do this to scare people and do not enforce it, I don't know.

The whole process from initial application until the issue of visas took 10 years. 5 years to approve the petition and a 5 year wait for numbers to become available. They finally got here about 5 years ago. Back in 1979-80, I worked in Thailand, helping resettle Lao and Cambodian refugees in the U.S. IIRC, they all had to have a sponsoring agency, church or similar. Not like today's free ride.