Some Path-to-Citizenship Examples

There are a number of hard-working people who enter the country illegally. I have always contended that you don’t start your citizenship in this country with a crime. I hear it all the time - these are hard working people - they’re not criminals. Since when does hard work make somebody immune to criminal activities?

Although this debate has become mostly about people who enter the US via Mexico (whether Mexican or OTM), the US is a haven for illegal immigrants from many countries. And while the proponents of illegal labor are mostly looking for the exploitable kind of workers - manual and unskilled - illegal immigrants span every industry and many levels. Illegal workers are in industries such as IT, Hospital, food service, food manufacturing, to name a few.

The question of what to do about the 12-odd million illegal immigrants already in the US becomes more important with each passing year - with each passing illegal population benchmark. No one wants to be a bad guy and say anything controversial. But the truth of the matter is, we have no idea who is in our country. We have no way to control who enters and who stays illegally.

I hear a lot about giving illegal immigrants a “path to citizenship”. Let me show you a few examples of people who would get a path to citizenship:

Kesi Cole is being held on $750,000 bail at the minimum security jail for women in Burlington County.

Investigators have determined that Kesi Cole is a native of Trinidad and an illegal immigrant because she did not fill out the required paperwork to be in the U.S. legally, police said.

An illegal immigrant charged in connection with the sexual assault of a 13-year-old Millville girl last year is expected to plead guilty in court this afternoon to aggravated sexual assault.

In August, deputies announced that another suspect, Luis Miguel Beltran Gonzalez, 25, had been booked on three counts of first-degree-murder and alien smuggling.

Investigators described all four suspects as undocumented immigrants who are believed to be frequent border crossers.

So, who gets a path to citizenship. Those who have only committed one federal crime or those who have already committed more crimes we don’t know about yet? People who come into your house unannounced through the back door are considered part of your family, right?