Drive to Citizenship- A Long Road

It costs thousands of dollars for legal residents in the US, eligible for citizenship, to begin the process. On April 19th in Colorado, a Naturalization drive brought volunteers and legal residents together to file for citizenship. www.theuptake.org

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[btigtime2]

I hope they are taught to read english... I hope its all done in english... That has been my whole problem with this latest inigration... For some reason we in the USA are starting to have to read spainish to accomidate them... We did not do that for the Irish nor the Italians nor the French nor the Germans, nor the Russians... Yet every where I go I'm seeing Spanish...

[Steadno]

These folks are doing it the right way!*****

[btigtime2]

Well I hope that is true... I know Its not true for a Drivers Liecience Test and other professional liecences test...

[Y2ANJ]

I was raised here but born in Peru so I just got naturalized back in January. It is interesting that ICE just "happened" to decide to raise the application fees which led to a backlog in applications which will now result in several hundred thousands of people not being able to vote in the next election. Not that anyone cares since everyone in this country has a visceral hate for hispanics now.

[LastNickNameOnEarth]

Always heard of the "line" these people are supposed to go stand in. Never knew it cost so much just to get in it.

[toyracers]

i hated going through all that... i can understand why my people hold it off for so long

[lcoscare]

Why don't you open this place in MEXICO so people can come legally!!!! I bet my taxpayer money is somehow going to this place. What ********!!!

[Whoo69]

If all the hard-working, law-abiding illegal immigrants were never discovered by federal or state authorities, no one would even know! We would treat them just as legal hispanics, and it wouldn't be a big deal. So what is the big deal anyhow? The hysteria over illegal immigration has got to stop.

[Whoo69]

I think, rather than firing people who are illegal just because of their citizenship status (not fired based on competency or sexual harassment, for example), we should have a computerized system with data on immigrants for all employers to look at to make sure that they are not hiring violent criminals. Or perhaps even include illegal immigrants in the system so that the illegals can't be hired and therefore not be fired until they get on the path to citizenship.

[Whoo69]

Illegal immigrants are no different from legal immigrants, except that they got here the 'wrong' way. They're still human. There's no mutant race of hispanic border-crossers coming here to suck everyone's blood and kill us all with telekinetic powers. And why are employer sanctions so necessary anyway? I'm not big on laissez-faire, but if an employer wants to hire an illegal who is law-abiding, why shouldn't he? It's his business. It's not like there's murderers running rampant in business.

[Whoo69]

Once we make it easier for those who are here illegally to contribute and assimilate and become Americans, they can finally come out of the shadows and not be afraid. We can welcome them instead of shunning them for "breaking the law." So what if they crossed the border and broke some immigration laws? It's not like they killed anyone or did any other crimes. It's just a technicality angry, insecure conservatives use to hate on illegal immigrants and use them as a scapegoat.