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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, you are right.  As I outlined above, my parents achieved the American dream through reliance on government handouts and instilled the same laziness in me.  I have issued and denied thousands of visas and I still maintain that the poorest of the poor cannot get a visa (excluding the Diversity Visa) with a letter from Cousin Emeka or a ream of bank account statements.  I support paths to legalization for the law-abiding and especially their children but that does blind me to the basic truth that immigrants who cannot cross on foot at our borders do not, by and large, proportionally represent their countries.  You identify yourself as African and thus know better than most how impossibly far out of reach even a plane ticket would be for a truly impoverished person in a certain context.  Why pretend that this opportunity is equally available to people from every economic background when you know that is not the case?

As a Black American please allow me to extend my thanks to those hardworking Africans who indirectly, and so nobly, choose to subsidize those of us who "live off the government" through their black market labor that does not drive down wages, but merely 'right prices' them in our economy.  I congratulate them on their certain-to-be-fruitful strategy of identifying with White Americans.  We hapless native sons and daughters can indeed learn much from them.[/quote]

Why do you have such a boulder on your shoulder?[/quote]

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