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Originally Posted by Bladewire
What laws?
She was registered with immigration and checked in multiple times a year as required. The article stated that clearly.
Non citizens have legal drivers licenses, you know that right?
She had a legal drivers license she would not have been allowed on base where their family lived without valid ID https://www.dmvflorida.org/drivers-l...ers-license-nc
Non citizens can legally work in America.
You know that right? She had an EOD card, legal right to work in America https://www.avvo.com/legal-guides/ug...en-work-permit
Non citizen can pay taxes legally.
You know that right? IRS Resident alien taxation https://www.irs.gov/individuals/inte...esident-aliens
It seems you make a lot of presumtions about people living in America that haven't gotten their legal residency finalized yet.
Legal citizenship is a matter of PAPERWORK.
You and I agree about people becoming legal citizens but there are millions of hard working law abiding people in America that are in limbo and don't deserve to be treated like criminals when they have no criminal history and have been doing things legally here in America for a years and have family here. |
Legal citizenship is a matter of paperwork. However, this woman came to the US, applied for citizenship, was denied, and instead of leaving the country like she should have, from 2000 - 2013 she lived in the United States illegally.
You are saying that non residents can legally work in the United States, and pay taxes in the United States, and this is correct. However, in order to work in the United States (and or pay taxes) you have to have a green card or work permit. She did not have this because she was here illegally. She registered with immigration only AFTER she was caught living in the United States for over a decade illegally.
What she should have done is returned home and applied again, and then eventually return to the United States once she had a green card or work permit or school permit.
Do I feel bad for this woman, her husband, and her family? Sure. But only to a certain point. She made bad decisions, and she lived in the United States for over a decade where she violated US law on a daily basis.
I support people becoming US citizens, but not when they spend a decade here in our country completely illegally breaking our laws.