This is a very interesting article telling how difficult and expensive it is to come into this country. People who think it is easy should read the whole story today. DP
The road to a legal life in America: More complex, costly than many know
By Brady McCombs, Arizona Daily Star
azstarnet.com: If you haven't said it, you've probably heard it: "I understand people want to come here; I just want them to do it legally, like my great-grandfather did."
But they don't come through Ellis Island anymore.
Hector Arroyo Garcia of Phoenix has waited 11 years for a green card for his wife and nearly nine years for green cards for his daughters so they could come from Mexico.
The Silva-Felix family of Douglas could be forever separated from their oldest daughter in Mexico, in part because the family lacked the money to hire an attorney and the knowledge to handle their own green-card applications.
University of Arizona assistant professor Cecilia Rios-Aguilar and doctoral candidate Patricia Azuara — highly-educated, sought-after professionals who beat the odds to get visas — worry about their futures and dread their visits to U.S. consulates for renewals.
The reality, immigration and human-rights advocates say, is that the U.S. immigration system has become a legal quagmire.
The process is restrictive, cumbersome and unwelcoming, critics say. In their view, it forces families to be separated and pushes desperate people to cross illegally — many through Southern Arizona's desert.
"People imagine that there is this system to welcome people because we are this nation of immigrants and we welcome people and we are so good and organized and there are all these systems in place," says Patricia Mejia, a Tucson immigration attorney. "But there is no system. The immigration system has failed."
Be sure to read the rest of this story! This is only a small part of it.
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