Jan here!


I was on parole in this country for the first five years that I lived here, according to the INS . "On parole" was stamped into my passport, and that was done every time I came into this country.   And supposedly the UK was the #1 US ally!   It took them four years and a lot of money from us for them to finally give me my green card. I could have been chucked out of the US for any little thing in that time, and I wasn't allowed to leave the country for the first eighteen months. So because of that I didn't see our first grandchild until she was nearly two years old. Now I will have to go through lots more INS nasties to gain citizenship here.

This country takes my fingerprints at every opportunity, and every time I come back into the country from visiting my family in the UK. (It also has my sons and their families' fingerprints. It has all my fingerprints and whole hand-prints several times over. My own country doesn't have my fingerprints at all because I have never done anything wrong. Every person who wasn't born here is treated like a criminal, so why would I ever want to become a citizen of such a paranoid unwelcoming country? The reason for me is I want this nonsense to end, and as I pay taxes and work twelve hours a day I want to have the right to vote so that I can change things here!

Added to this, every thinking person should realize that our families were all immigrants at one point. It's a shame the 1492 Homeland Security didn't take our fingerprints and turn us away.   There but for fortune go I, and we should all recognize this.   Only the Native Americans have a right to complain. They were here before any Europeans.