The most common method of illegal immigration is Visa Fraud, which occurs when a person gets a Visa built on false pretenses. In fact, the most common type of this kind of method is Green Card Marriages.
What is a Green Card Marriage?
It is when foreign nationals intend to marry a citizen to avoid the usual immigration laws. This is actually regarded as a crime in the United States. They are thinking of a special blessing as their means to acquire citizenship, instead of building a life together as a family.
It is through Green Card Marriages that foreign nationals do not even try to get themselves a Visa in order to obtain permanent citizenship and residency. It is an American law that spouses of citizens and permanent stayers in the US are not required to get their own Visa anymore. Unfortunately, it is this particular law that is being widely and very popularly taken advantage of by many foreign illegal immigrants.
To date, many individuals or companies are still hiring unauthorized employees. Such situation is regarded as the Magnet for Illegal Immigration. Since lots of today’s employers are very willing to hire illegal immigrants in to obtain higher pay, as compared to what they would most likely get back in their home of origin, they feel much more inspired or motivated to gather the guts necessary for successfully crossing the border.
What does Mexico have to say?
It was actually in 2003 that the former President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, said that Mexico’s most effective source of foreign income is the remittances they get. In fact, he even states that the income they got merely from remittances beat what they received from foreign investment, tourism, or oil. Furthermore, he also states that the money transfers that the country got, after the Mexican consulates gave out identity cards to Mexicans who are now America citizens, largely increased.
Vicente Fox has stated that Mexican workers located in the US sent around twelve billion dollars to their families located back home. And in 2005, the World Bank released its statement that Mexico got more than eighteen billion dollars in remittances only, ranking third from China and India.
The network effect
Expert demographer, Jeffery Passel, who works in the Pew Hispanic Center, stated that the flow of Mexicans living and working in the US has generated what is called a network effect. This network effect occurs when more immigration cases take place as more and more Mexicans transfer to the US so that they can join their relatives who are already living and getting quite comfortable there.
Why do they choose to illegally immigrate in the first place?
Many expert analysts believe today that the Government’s delays, high expenses, and further inefficiencies in the processing of Visa applications and working permits, add up to the huge number of those who opt to be illegal immigrants. In fact, it was only in 2007 that the Green Card applications obtained a back log amount of more than one million. It is a sad thing that those who apply for their Visa need to get used to the waiting time of three years.
What is illegal immigration?
Illegal immigration to the United States of America is when foreign nationals violate the policies that the US has with regards to immigration. They also tend to break national laws once they get to enter or decide to stay in the United States without obtaining official or legal permission from the country’s Government officials.
In fact, it was actually in 2008 that the Center for Immigration Studies discovered that the illegal immigrants within the US are eleven million people, which is a number down from the 2007 amount of nearly thirteen million. The Pew Hispanic Center also did their own part of the research as they determined and segmented the illegal immigrants. After a couple of months, they found out that fifty-seven percent came from Mexico, twenty-four percent came from countries located in Latin America, specifically from Central America, while nine percent only came from Asia. Moreover, six percent came from Europe, and the remaining four percent came from the other areas in the world.
Illegal outpace the legal.
To date, the number of illegal immigrants continuously outpaces the number of legal ones. In fact, this has become a trend nowadays that is consistently held steady since the 90’s era. It is a fact that majority of today’s illegal aliens in the US decide to settle down in Hispanic communities, while illegal immigrants are fairly distributed all over the country. In fact, nearly fourteen million belong to families that have an unauthorized immigrant for the head of their household.
A positive side from this is that illegal immigrants in the previous years have started to bring much more educated people, as compared to the last decade. Furthermore, a quarter of all of the immigrants has had at least some partial college education. Still, unfortunately, whenever they are in a group, they tend to seem less educated, as compared to the other sectors of the US population. Statistically, forty-nine percent have not even completed their high school education.
Employment status
They have even started to work in more than one particular sector in the entire United States. Research conducted by the National Public Radio states that three percent works in the agriculture industry; thirty-three percent work in service industries, while substantial numbers are found working in construction companies.
What are sojourners?
Sojourners are illegal immigrants who do choose not to stay indefinitely and return to their country of origin. They are called sojourners since they only come to the United States of America for a couple of years and then eventually go back to their own nation.
How to become an illegal immigrant?
People can be considered as illegal immigrants when they fall under one category, among three. First of all, illegal immigration occurs when they enter a country without any proper authorization or inspection. Second, is when people stay beyond the period of time that they have been permitted to stay legally. And, third, is when they violate the set terms with regards to legal entry.
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