Venezuela
is a prime and possibly the best example of the USA immigration
policies. It is common practice for Venezuela to send it's young people
to the USA for education and then have them stay. Venezuela doesn't want
them back. Once the Venezuela citizens left the country there were
abandoned by their homeland.
March 8, 2015
By Christine Armario
After late President Hugo Chavez (click here) came to power in Venezuela, many upper class Venezuelans immigrated to the US with a considerable financial cushion. Now, many middle class Venezuelans arrive with a visa and little else...
The USA's generous in accepting students to their universities and colleges. The idea is that the graduates are to add to the brain trust of their native homelands. That isn't what occurs. The immigration policy is a complete failure and that is why the immigration courts are backed up for years and not merely months. The cases the court hears are complicated and tedious to wade through the facts.
Miami — Carlos Salamanca fled Venezuela's growing political turmoil in January with his wife, two teenage children and $7,000.
Two months into their journey to the United States, he and his wife are sleeping most nights in an old, worn Nissan.
Salamanca had no family or business contacts in the U.S. No property he'd purchased on a previous trip. No idea where the children might attend school....
$7000 is legal also. The most any Venezuelan who comes to the USA for any reason that brings more than $10,000 is unlawful. The USA restricts the money that can come into and leaves the USA.
So, while deportation, no matter how humane and well thought out the USA policy might be, the ground work to implement such an idea is enormous. I always believe when people come to the USA it is a mistake. These countries need the brain trust and hope for the future. The homeland countries should be welcoming their citizens back to add to their futures, but, that is not the focus of these countries. They are either passively or actively opposition of the return of these people.
Immigration is a very complex issue in the USA. The best that can occur is to pass immigration reform and provide function back to the courts. The USA has to fully staff and fund the courts and quite possibly expand the number of courts. All this is infrastructure to an effective immigration policy even the idea Donald Trump has to return people to their homeland.
I do believe "The Dreamers" have a real case to stay in the USA. To ask these people to return to their homeland is a human rights issue. It asks them to abandon the only home they have known to return to a country they have no idea about or how to survive under very different governments. There is a chance The Dreamers could face dangers in day to day living they never expected. It would be a sincere tragedy if Dreamers return to their homeland only to die because they unwittingly end up irritating a drug cartel with results we have seen in Mexico.
The future policies can be effective, but, to address all The Dreamers and their families on a case by case basis may prove to be perilous for them when it just as easy to allow good people to stay in the USA. I do believe immigration policy needs to updated and tighter than it is today. I think the chance to return any of the Undocumented is far too late.
March 8, 2015
By Christine Armario
After late President Hugo Chavez (click here) came to power in Venezuela, many upper class Venezuelans immigrated to the US with a considerable financial cushion. Now, many middle class Venezuelans arrive with a visa and little else...
The USA's generous in accepting students to their universities and colleges. The idea is that the graduates are to add to the brain trust of their native homelands. That isn't what occurs. The immigration policy is a complete failure and that is why the immigration courts are backed up for years and not merely months. The cases the court hears are complicated and tedious to wade through the facts.
Miami — Carlos Salamanca fled Venezuela's growing political turmoil in January with his wife, two teenage children and $7,000.
Two months into their journey to the United States, he and his wife are sleeping most nights in an old, worn Nissan.
Salamanca had no family or business contacts in the U.S. No property he'd purchased on a previous trip. No idea where the children might attend school....
$7000 is legal also. The most any Venezuelan who comes to the USA for any reason that brings more than $10,000 is unlawful. The USA restricts the money that can come into and leaves the USA.
So, while deportation, no matter how humane and well thought out the USA policy might be, the ground work to implement such an idea is enormous. I always believe when people come to the USA it is a mistake. These countries need the brain trust and hope for the future. The homeland countries should be welcoming their citizens back to add to their futures, but, that is not the focus of these countries. They are either passively or actively opposition of the return of these people.
Immigration is a very complex issue in the USA. The best that can occur is to pass immigration reform and provide function back to the courts. The USA has to fully staff and fund the courts and quite possibly expand the number of courts. All this is infrastructure to an effective immigration policy even the idea Donald Trump has to return people to their homeland.
I do believe "The Dreamers" have a real case to stay in the USA. To ask these people to return to their homeland is a human rights issue. It asks them to abandon the only home they have known to return to a country they have no idea about or how to survive under very different governments. There is a chance The Dreamers could face dangers in day to day living they never expected. It would be a sincere tragedy if Dreamers return to their homeland only to die because they unwittingly end up irritating a drug cartel with results we have seen in Mexico.
The future policies can be effective, but, to address all The Dreamers and their families on a case by case basis may prove to be perilous for them when it just as easy to allow good people to stay in the USA. I do believe immigration policy needs to updated and tighter than it is today. I think the chance to return any of the Undocumented is far too late.
