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Cloud · 01-15-2009, 01:21 PM

are they here legally? I don't have personal knowledge of the numbers, but I suspect some are and some aren't. Probably most of this wave of middle class or affluent people have no trouble getting visas. These are not migrant farmworkers, "wetbacks" or anything like the popular conception of illegal immigrants.

You have to understand that a large number of people here in this town live on both sides of the border all the time. Live there, work here, or vice versa. Live there, send kids to school here. Work there, live here; half your family is here, the other half there, some with dual citizenship, some with work visas, some not. It's complex.

01-15-2009, 01:21 PM	#9
Cloud ... Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 8,360	are they here legally? I don't have personal knowledge of the numbers, but I suspect some are and some aren't. Probably most of this wave of middle class or affluent people have no trouble getting visas. These are not migrant farmworkers, "wetbacks" or anything like the popular conception of illegal immigrants. You have to understand that a large number of people here in this town live on both sides of the border all the time. Live there, work here, or vice versa. Live there, send kids to school here. Work there, live here; half your family is here, the other half there, some with dual citizenship, some with work visas, some not. It's complex. __________________ "Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards!"