Immigration Watch International

We have a home in Virginia, and investments in the United States, so we are compelled to pay taxes. But, we are only allowed to visit our home for a maximum of three months every year. I expect I spend as much time over here in Spain opening and dealing with demands for some kind of charge or another from the US as I do enjoying our home over there.

But, so far as I am concerned, the People of the United States are free to decide who does and who does not live in their country – and that is how it should be. To me, one’s country is like one’s home – only the invited should be allowed to stay.

Yet, when I do visit, I have this feeling that all is not quite “fair.” Each time I catch a taxi from the airport, or to get around DC, I seem to end up with a driver who speaks Arabic, or Farsi, or some other language from the Middle, Near, or Far East. And when I engage them in discussion, I inevitably hear about their parents, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces and other far flung family members who have also found their way into the United States. When I ask how they manage that, I am usually met with a chuckle.

Now presumably all these people are in the United States legally, and I give them full credit for their success. All I know is that all our inquiries, and legal advice, tell us that we must “invest” large quantities of money AND employ a significant number of people (benefits and all) if we want any hope of getting in to the United States permanently. It is not enough, apparently, to buy a home, invest money, pay your taxes, guarantee that you will never take any state benefit of any kind, not avail yourself of the education system (we homeschool our children), and promise not to be a naughty boy.

Oddly though, none of those I have spoken to who have gained entry to the United States offered to, or were required to, make such a commitment.

On the other hand, I have been advised that if I could get a job and show that no American would be qualified to do that job, I could gain entry. Now I may be a vain person, but to assume that I am equipped with a skill that no American could match would be the ultimate indulgence in vain delusion – but still, it seems, there are a great many such “exceptionally skilled” people pouring into the United States. Remarkable!! And anyway, I find the prospect of working for someone else a quite undignified and humiliating prospect. I also thought that America was built on individual initiative and a commitment to independence, not servitude and dependence; but alas, it seems things have changed.

Apart from these “legals,” I have also encountered a great many people who quite openly admit that they are in the United States illegally. They even tell me about their children in school, the great medical treatment they get, and other “goodies” that come with their status. They don’t seem to have any shame in the fact that they should not be in the United States in the first place, or that my tax dollars may be used to help finance them, even though I cannot bring my own family to live in my own house with my own money; they seem to think that they have some sort of entitlement or right,” not just to be there and avail themselves of the tax Dollars of Americans, but also my tax Dollars