SunofMan: "There are multiple requirements for different types of visas in the U.S. These are not only difficult requirements to meet, but specifically designed to make the process for poor people an impossibility. Why would anyone risk their life marching across the desert if they couldve just come 'legally.'"
THAT'S A BIG 'RIGHT ON', BRO. i have been very intimately involved (as in 'applied on behalf of') in everything from procuring visas to Green Cards to US citizenship naturalizations for a number of Central Americans. Believe me, you ain't getting through the embassy doors doors down there unless you have:(1) solid connections in the US, and (2) the kind of serious money that very few poor Central Americans can ever accumulate in their lives.
The System is designed to keep out the poorest and the neediest. i just have to smile at the utter ignorance of Americans who say, "if they want to come here, there's a legal process for doing that." For the downtrodden, screwed over by years of U.S.-interventionist foreign policies in their countries, that's just a pipe dream.
As you so correctly point out: Why else would anyone leave behind their families, strap on a day pack, and try to walk/hitchhike a couple thousand miles to the U.S.-Mexico border to sneak across?
Yes, when i see their plights, I&i have quite a lot of compassion for my downtrodden Latino brothers & sisters. When did compassion become relegated solely to the domain of "leftists" and "liberals"?
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