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Re: Immigration, Illegal aliens
Posted By: Don the Monkeyman, on host 24.70.0.3
Date: Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 07:51:58
In Reply To: Re: Immigration, Illegal aliens posted by wintermute on Thursday, August 9, 2001, at 02:35:12:

> Apparantly, it's easier for Brits to get a US citizenship than people from pretty much any other nation on Earth (or elsewhere, for that matter). My Aunt married an American about 5 years ago, and has been resident in California with a steady job since then. She just got her Green Card through a couple of months ago.
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> She seemed quite impressed that it had happened so quickly.

I'm pretty sure marrying a citizen is the easiest way to get in quickly. As in, if you can convince someone to marry you, it's just a done deal, and nobody questions it. I know that in Canada, a lot of the British soldiers who come over to train at our bases spend a lot of time at nearby bars trying to pick up women in hopes of getting married and being able to stay in Canada. I kid you not.

> As a non-American, I sometimes have difficulty undertanding why (some, vocal) Americans have such a problem with immigrants.
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> The two reasons normally given are overcrowding (in the country with the lowest population density in the western world)

Excuse me? I'm pretty sure Canada has a much lower population density than the U.S. Of course, most immigrants don't want to go settle in the frozen north. :-)

> winter"Not that I have any right to join this discussion"mute

Don "Me neither" Monkey

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