Worldly Chatter

While watching the news today something got Dutchie infuriated and I cannot fault her either. It was the new immigration plan to allow undocumented workers in the US prior to January 2007 immediate authorization to work. They would have to pay a five thousand dollar penalty plus the costs of paperwork and processing. There are stipulations about leaving and coming back. There is a process where they work for two years, leave for a year, come back for two years and do it twice more, a points merit system. Heads of households have to go back to their native country within eight years with guarantees of coming back. There are a few different ways to enter according to new policy. It is a 380-page plan so the details are far from all here but there would be a way to make these illegal’s, legal despite the hardships of leaving and paying the fine, which can be paid over time according to CNN.

I, as you are aware, took the legal way to gaining residence to the Netherlands. Rules that I had abide by just so that the IND would give me a pink card. I had to pay the process fees that ended up costing over € 1000, had to make sure I had more than adequate insurance coverage and a place to stay. Dutchie had to make sure that she had a contract with a company either one year or permanent. She had to make a certain amount of money to sponsor me and prove that she could take care of me without government aide. I never took a job from any Dutch person, never asked for money or assistance from the government or any other agency. I landed, let myself be known to the IND and once I got my permit I went and got my tax number, a bank card, I made the appropriate calls to get integration underway and am currently looking for employment. It was a struggle at times to come up with the money; it took a lot of hard work on Dutchies part to gain that permanent contract and financial means to sponsor me. Yet we did it and did it legally. I cannot help but feel that these illegals are being handed something sweet for breaking the law.

There are no legal means for me to bring Dutchie to America legally. There is no job awaiting her and this is not a heterosexual relationship therefore there isn’t a way. Yet people who break the law and hide now given a chance to stay. How is this right? I fully understand that there are people who feel that my relationship is wrong somehow given squat. Whether I like the attitudes and judgments placed upon me and my relationship, I understand they are there. However, even with the judgments and less than equal treatments, I have not done anything wrong. I have not broken the law done absolutely nothing to merit this treatment. I must move away from my home to be happy. Yet someone breaking the law, hiding and taking jobs from Americans are going to be granted access to the country I cannot bring my partner into! Dutchie has done nothing wrong; she has broken no laws and done nothing to be denied the right to enter into the country that screams land of opportunities.

If you break the law, you should be punished, not rewarded. If this goes through it is saying what they did is fine, come on in anyway. Telling them they have to pay a penalty and have to go back now and again is the only punishment I can see and it is a slap on the wrist as far as I am concerned. Every single illegal would be granted rights and privileges allowed under the American law.

Illegals are given this opportunity. This is going to clean up the illegals and bring them from the shadows and into the light according to President Bush, into society and out of hiding and shame. Where is my opportunity? I would be able to care for her, provide for her and without the aid of the government. Where is the opportunity for people who want to come to America the legal way?
If it sounds like I am complaining it is because I am. It is the only way to make enough noise sometimes. It is the only way to be heard. I had to leave my country and if the country were as equal, fair and everything else I was told as a child then I would not have had to leave it. I am an American and I am pissed off because it feels as though being an American gets you squat. People breaking the law are being granted something I would do the legal way. Do not break the law and then expect people to bend over backwards for you to let you stay but that is what is going on. Politicians finding a way to appease the American public and the illegal’s in the country with little success. They are only appeasing the illegal’s. I don’t get it, I simply do not get it. Saying it is ok to be illegal, break the law, we will reward you! I don’t understand, I don’t see any of this working.

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