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Visa for a dream

Those Hispanics who come to the USA to have a decent life and better future will do it usually through a tourist visa, work visa, student visa and lately for security reasons asylum visa; there are more type of visa that you can apply for but for now I will focus on those types stated before.

They are here to work, study, contribute to the economy creating businesses, and also to integrate to the community.
For those who suddenly lost there visa status because they don’t have work anymore, the tourist visa suddenly expire or some other reason are caught in a Catch 22 situation because they have to leave the country to re apply and wait approval, but what do you do if you already bought property have a job in the USA and perhaps new family?.

I believe those above deserve some type of amnesty or be able to re apply inside the country, but those who came to commit crimes, get rich fast breaking the law and sneak through the border should be deported immediately or perhaps depending on the severity of the crime jail time in order not to increase the inmate population.

There is also a need to solve the problem of those local farmers who need low income labor to collect strawberries, oranges, and tomatoes among other things because inside the USA there is not a single person who wants to do it. The Mexican, Salvadorians, and Guatemalans among others come here first of all because the lack of work in their country of origin and attracted to a better life, also they don’t need the English to perform their work, but they should learned and since the local farmers want cheap labor sometimes abuse them with no health insurance, housing and poor labor conditions in general.

It is a reality the need for this type of labor, but we need better labor regulations and temporary visas to help the farmers, the economy and at the same time help legal immigrants get a better life.

Solving all the visa problems stated above will help the immigration issue in this country and solve in part a national security problem, because the only ones left to cross the border will be the terrorist.
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I am sure that no one took in consideration the tragedy of been apart from their love ones; those who packed their belongings in a pair of suitcases not only brought to the new country clothing, they brought pieces of a happy life depicted in pictures of birthdays, weddings or in letters from friends, boyfriend or perhaps a girlfriend in other words happy times, but also brought willingness to start all over again no matter if they were lawyers, doctors, receptionists, or whatever was their occupation. All became one social status, with no titles or jobs.

Ours is a country of immigrants

Also that separation from parents and other family members besides friends broke the family in two; no more event celebrations together.

The father or for instance grandma will not be able to enjoy or see their son or grandson grow leaving a sense of separation, agony and remorse for those who emigrated.

Happy are those who can call their families every week, share pictures and events through emails or letters, but for many that are in minimum wages, struggling to survive from job to job is a constant pain in their hearts not to know about their love ones.

The worst of those situations is a person who left his country alone and with the hope to have a good job that will allow him to save money, so he can send it back to his family, sin order for them to eat, have a roof over their heads or perhaps buy a piece of land.

He is alone, no friends from his barrio, no family only the new friends his making in his job or his church where he goes and pray every Sunday to have a better live.

Those who choose to live in another country for whatever reason they don’t have a sense of belonging; they don’t have points of reference in their new city meaning buildings, plazas or monuments that at some point in live was the background of a family event or an engagement celebration. They need to integrate with the new community and merge with the fabric of the city so they can start building that sense of belonging.

I will encourage those who made it to give a hand to their fellow countrymen and for the existing citizens have compassion and welcome them to your country.

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