Terp Graduated! Yet She Can't Find a Job Because She's a illegal.

This is a truely sad story. I think there are many other illegals who are facing the same dilenmma as Jacqueline.

Jacqueline, a 23-year-old December graduate, is one of thousands of students illegally in the United States finding themselves in legal limbo. This university, like many others in the country, only requires students to provide proof of residency in the admissions application.

But they followed the American dream by learning the langauge and getting through school.

The two girls snapped back, though, learning English and scraping through Montgomery County middle and high schools. She wasn't a great student, so the day she graduated high school she hit a brick wall when she realized her status limited her options.

While she has graduated at UMD. She knows that while she's qualified professional, she can't get a job becuase she's not a legal.

Though school is over for her, the problems may continue. She has tried numerous times to acquire legal status to no avail. And she does not have the time or money to enter legalization proceedings. (Only to worsen by Dubya making those proceedings too expensive for working class immigrants to get.)

Her college diploma, for now, is only good to display in the mahogany frame hanging on her dining room wall. She's qualified for a professional job helping autistic children, but can't get a job practicing.

"Oh my God, I am illegal," she thought.

This a truely sad that if Bush suddenly decides to rapidly expidte plans to deport all illegals, she may may join the ranks of the homeless since she and her family do not have a home there. Not to mention that the job market in Mexico is at a stand still. And if she managaed to get enough money to legalize herself by going through the proper channels, she would have a difficult time becuase she is Latino. But if she was a West European citizen, she would have a much easier time with the process.This is why so many Mexicans cross the border illegally since they know that going through it legally is very difficult and prohibative not worth it.

Our immigration system is broken, not to mention racist. It needs to be repaired, and simply deporting all illegals back where they come from would lead to another econmoic depression, and Dubya know it. What I would do is to grant all illegals legality if they were culturally naturalized. what I mean by cultural naturalization is that they have a basic knowledge of English, have a stable job or been in a educational facility, and are not a seriously a threat to the community as a whole. If they were able to prove that for at least six months, they would be granted legal residents (aka green cards) and if they have been living in the US for five years along with those six months they would be automatically be granted permanment residency, making the road to citizenship much quciker.

Oh, make the process a lot streamlined and easily to proceed.

Again, don't expect your Republicrat represenatives to do anything about this issue, they rather sit their fat asses until its too late.

The Modern Day Prophet Has Spoken