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Ahhh, I was such a naive pup back in 2006 when I complained about immigration. If you thought it was bad reading the last post well I am here to tell you it is worse. Think about every stereotype you can think of for a government and well there you have it. The process is inefficient, expensive and complicated. And once you are finally approved in the United States then the whole thing goes to the American consulate in the country where your fiancee is a citizen of and starts again. And just because they are inefficient you have to sit around for months waiting for them to take their sweet ass time to schedule an interview which takes all of 10 minutes. You get no preferential treatment because you are a United States citizen. Your in-line with the student visa requests and such. And you would think after all that time they could give you a reasonable amount of notice that your interview date is coming up. Oh contraire. Nope 2 – 3 weeks and give a week for mail delivery. We are so unfortunate that she is a citizen of that third world country of Canada. We know they have no technology and couldn’t possibly do the computer database look ups that need to take place. The fact that they can’t schedule an interview date when they receive your paperwork is just beyond me. What a freaking joke.

There has been very intense media coverage lately concerning immigration and specifically illegal immigrants. I can tell you the reason there are so many illegals here and the answer is quite easy. The reason people come here illegally is because it is so damn hard to get here the correct way. It is complicated, limited and expensive. If you don’t believe me look at the US immigration site (www.uscis.gov) sometime and check out what it takes to legally immigrate to the US. We live in the greatest country in the world IMHO but we have this all wrong. I’m not saying we should give these people amnesty. I’m saying we should make it easier for them to come here in the first place. Let them pay taxes and contribute. We, as a country, are spending ridiculous amounts of money and resources on finding these people. When we do find them we spend more money and resources arresting and or deporting them or trying to keep them out in the first place. It’s just stupid. Let’s take that money and do something good with it like educating them so they can become even more productive members of our country.