Tuesday, July 04, 2006
Reform Party of the United States of America
This is the platform that I have resonated the most with so far. The "immigration" section has some bumps in it but I see what they're getting at. I'm all about the "employer liability for illegal workers" thing; that's a definite plus. But I'm disappointed that there's no mention of USCIS reform, since they talk about reforming other federal agencies. It's all very well and good to say "Expel the illegals!" if you have a system that makes legal immigration process sensible. But I was a Canadian who tried to do the legal route myself but had to hire a lawyer and call a congressman just to get my basic green card to be here with my American-born citizen spouse. The current system is so convoluted and broken that your average Joe (or Jose, as the case may be) can't navigate it unless they have pots of money to piss in a hole, years to put their life on hold while waiting for "due process" and an incredibly strong grasp on the English language ... which will still do them no good when dealing with forms where the instruction guide doesn't match the line numbers and the "application requirements" vary depending on what each individual USCIS officer had for lunch.
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