The United States Citizenship and Immigration Service is getting ready to approve millions of visa requests for otherwise illegal aliens, in advance of a Congressional fight over soft amnesty for illegals. The thought is that whatever “comprehensive immigration reform” is passed, that those holding valid and current visas will be able to get citizenship first and most quickly and easily.
I think it’s all moot. Issuing them visas would be the functional equivalent of amnesty, even if CIR isn’t passed. While they’re here, they can procreate, and their children will automatically be citizens. And you know how it goes, you can’t deport the parents of a young citizen child, boo hoo hoo cry me a river, cue the violins.
As it is right now, most illegal aliens didn’t get here by swimming across a river or hopping a fence. They get legal visas, cross legally, then overstay them. Even if they’re caught for a crime other than their being here illegally, or for that alone, it is virtually impossible to deport them physically. And if they’ve had children in the process, they’ve got an in.
