-=> Quoting John Sampson to Dave Shakespeare <=-
 
DH> Seems to me, the individual who makes a choice to be an American
DH> citizen may deserve more respect for his citizenship, than one who is
DH> born a citizen.
Unfortunately, Dave, there are those who become citizens not because they 
want to be Americans, but because it allows them to petition for the 
remainder of their family that is back home.
Example: Mr. Patel from India comes to the United States as a student. He 
marries a U.S. citizen. She petitions for him to get his green card. He 
gets it. He divorces her. He becomes a citizen by naturalizion three to 
five years after he gets his green card. 
Mr. Patel goes back to India and marries (or often times, REmarries) his 
true love and petitions for her to get HER green card. Since he's a U.S. 
citizen, there is no numerical limitations for her. She gets her visa. She 
comes. At the same time, Mr. Patel petitions for his mother and father and 
all of his brothers and sisters and their spouses and children. Mom and Dad 
get here immediately (more or less based upon processing time for 
paperwork, but say six months to a year after he files). Brothers and 
sisters, on the other hand, have to wait because they are in a numerically 
limited class. 
However, eventually get here with their spouses and their children. 
Remember the newly blusing bride, Mrs. Patel? She waits three years after 
getting here and she files for HER citizenship, gets it and then files for 
HER mother and father and HER brothers and sisters, their spouses and 
children. 
Assume that each family has an average of 6 children. So Mr. Patel coming 
here as a student is responsible for the emigration of 37 people, including 
his mother and father and his five siblings, their spouses and their five 
kids in each family. 
Mrs. Patel also arranges for an additional 37 people emigrating here. And 
now when THOSE in laws become citizens, THEY petition for THEIR parents, 
THEIR brothers and sisters and their kids. Ergo, the next replication 
results in 195 people per family and the numbers progress geometrically 
from there. 
All because Mr. Patel became a U.S. citizen.
There are other reasons why aliens naturalize. To retain their welfare 
benefits has become the principal reason nowadays. When Congress passed the 
welfare reform bill and it was signed into law, the numbers of applications 
for naturalization went through the roof. 
To retain one's welfare beneftis certainly is a nobel reason to become a 
United States citizen now, isn't it?
John , jnsampson@ibm.net 
 "To find reasonable doubt, one must first be capable of reason."
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