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Originally Posted by Drolefille
removing the right of citizenship to individuals born here discourages naturalization and encourages legal immigrants to return home, taking money and education with them. It would have been a bad idea in the past, it's a bad idea now.
The last numbers I heard, even if you are in the US and you want to bring your family in, you're looking at 15+ years. And that's supposed to be the easiest part of the immigration process.
Currently individuals from Mexico are not even eligible for the random lottery which is only 55k visas per year. |
I don't see how this proposed law would encourage legal immigrants to return home when it doesn't affect them. AFAIK these proposed changes to the Jus Soli laws only affects children born to illegal immigrants. If you're here legally and have a child, that child will be a citizen.
For the 15+ years to get your family in, I'm not sure where you got that number but it's an either an exaggeration or you are talking about extreme cases. A buddy of mine just got his wife over and it took him about 5 months, and people who adopt overseas don't spend 15 years for their adopted baby to come over. Some petitions do get revoked because of legal issues such as prior deportation of said family member ( if you are deported you are banned from re- entering for a certain amount of time), which if thats the case then yes, it can take up to 15 years.