ICE does need to raid workplaces to find the illegals actually working there, which strenghten their case versus simply standing at a corner. They also need to visit the illegal’s home when they have a warrant for the arrest and deportation of a certain individual.

Your story does not hold water whatsoever. It is complete nonsense. If he returned to US in July and became a citizen in October is because he had already been a* Legal Permanent Resident*(Green card holder) for 5 years of more before that. If that had been the case, he did not need to return to Mexico because he was legal already. Further, if he had returned to Mexico for more than 6 months he would have been deemed to have given up his Legal Permanent Resident status in the U.S and would have lost his green card.

My personal experience tells quite a different story. My niece is engaged to a Mexican man who wanted to become a legal citizen prior to getting married. When he inquired what he had to do he was told to go back to Mexico, apply for legal entrance and wait a year. He went back to Mexico and did what he was supposed to. He came back in July and became a citizen in October and is now marrying my niece in February.

Every country in the world have immigration laws to protect its labor force. If the wait is too long then that means there are too many immigrants currently.

In los Angeles and San Diego, workplace raids and early morning pick ups at illegal’s homes are commonplace. No local police involvement is necessary. Local police officers are not trained to determine immigration status anyway. I do not know about San Francisco but I do not see why it would be different, other than local police will not help the feds. You are most certainly incorrect. Unless they have 1 million dollars to invest, are Nobel prize winners or similar, hold a fancy advanced degree, are a supermodel, superathlete or movie star or( most commonly) a close relative of a US citizen (over 21 if it is a son/daughter), it is virtually impossible to legally immigrate to the US, regardless of wait time. *They have no turn to wait on.*
That is what we need to reform. To give them a reason to wait until they have reached some accomplishment which will make them eligible for legal immigration independently of relatives and all else. Such as a point system, as Canadians and Australians do.

Alej

There are sanctuary cities where ICE will not take illegals i.e. Los Angeles and San Francisco. Local law enforcement will arrest an illegal for a law infraction (other than being a illegal ) and ICE will not get involved.

When you say illegals don’t have access to the legal means of gaining access to becoming a citizen is not the truth. They have the same access to the system that everyone else has, they just don’t want to wait their turn.

We have an illegal immigration problem because we have immigration laws and a system that does not work and that has been the case for half a century. It is not an Obama administration problem. Or anybody else’s administration for that matter.

Sanctuary cities are more an iconic reaction to what many perceive as unfair, rather than effective opposition to the federal government ‘s action. If ICE picks up an illegal, he/she will be deported, whatever the city.

I don ‘t think amnesty is the solution either, necessarily. We need another system. A new one..from scratch!!
We are not looking the other way with Hispanics or with anybody else. That is why they are illegal and among them there are of any and all nationalities. We cannot tell Canadians apart from Americans, much less guess what their immigration status is.
But their being illegal is not the illness. It is the symptom. The illness is the system itself.

No, it would not diminish their efforts because these few HAVE a legal avenue to
immigrate to the USA. The undocumented do not have it and so they cannot play by the rules because the rules exclude them from playing in the first place, regardless of wait time.
Alej

I think the greater questions are why is there a illegal immigration “problem?” Why are sanctuary cities allowed when immigration is a federal issue? What would happen in the future if we did grant amnesty to all illegal immigrants currently here? Since all countries have immigration laws, why are we looking the other way with hispanics? If we granted amnesty, would it diminish the efforts of those who went through the system to gain citizenship?