‘Shameful’: Legal immigrants face a severe struggle in the midst of a liquid border crisis
Castle Rock, Colo. – Catherine waited in Colombia for nine years before her immigration request was approved, which allowed her to join her brothers and sisters in the United States. Two years later, she said she was still waiting for her husband to be allowed to join her at a new home in Colorado.
He is upset when he thinks about tens of thousands of people who overwhelm the southern border every month, who did not wait like her.
“If you try to do [it] In the right way, you have to wait a long time. You have to pay for fees, “she said Fox News Digital. – And some people just cross the border for free and that’s it.
“It is shameful that we have illegal migrants here who are at the helm of the order and do not go through this process,” the Castle Rock Councilor and MP Max Brooks, a Republican, told Fox News Digital Digital.
Migrants seeking asylum in the United States are shown as silhouettes while standing in line at the Tijuana border crossing, Mexico, January 18, 2025. Meetings on the southwestern border, which in 1986 and 2000 reached prior peaks of 1.6 million, then They reduced themselves to decades low than about 304,000 in the fiscal year 2017, again began to grow during Trump’s first term, and then jumped to new highlights during Biden’s administration. (Reuters/Jorge Duenes)
Illegal immigration is one of the political issues that led to the victory of President Donald Trump in the 2024 elections. Trump vowed in his inaugural address Monday to “end with the practice captures and let go” and signed a series of executive actions on the first day involving an order that authorizes the army to create a plan for “closing boundaries” and the other to interrupt the use of the CBP One application for processing migrants.
Trump’s attention focused on Colorado after a viral video showed alleged migrants from Venezuela wearing weapons in Aurora apartment settlement.
On the eve of the Inauguration Day, Fox News Digital spoke with Catherine and her sister Zully Castle RockThe city of about 30 miles south of Denver, the immigration and Trump’s deportation plans. Both agreed that the country needed strict border security.
“Although most people come with the intention of working, they help the city’s development and grow in person, there are many who break and are not good people,” Zully said. She added that it is important for immigrants to “get a civil culture education for everyone to behave properly.”
Zully and Catherine believed that the wave of illegal border crossings slowed the process for legal immigrants.
But David Bier, director of immigration studios at the Libertarian Cato Institute, rejected the idea that illegal immigrants have any influence on the waiting time for legal immigrants because customs and border protection do not process immigration requirements.
“That is a special agency,” he said. “So, if someone illegally crosses the border, it will not directly affect anyone in the legal immigration system trying to undergo a legal process.”
Bier also claimed that the delays that plague the system, the limitations of green tickets and the strict limitations of the eligibility make the legal immigration “almost impossible”.
“It’s the system guilty until it is proven to be innocent. And the only way you can prove your innocence or your eligibility to move in is if you belong to a very narrow exception,” he said.
Green cards for spouses and children of legal permanent residents were “simple” before, but now it takes years, said Zully, who emigrated to the US from Colombia. “It’s frustrating because the immigration processes have delayed significantly,” she said. (Alba Cuebas-Fantauzzi/Fox News Digital)
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The US law currently allows officials to award up to 675,000 permanent immigrant visas each year for certain categories, according to US Immigration Council. The priority is given to those who are not in the immediate relatives of US nationals (there are no limitations for green tickets for spouses, parents or children of adult citizens) and relatives of lawful permanent residents. Qualified workers, highly educated individuals and “extraordinary abilities” in art, science, athletics or other fields can also qualify.
“The exceptions are so small that really only about 3% of all people who tried to legally immigrate last year in fact a green ticket and could become a legal permanent resident,” Bier said.
He said it was less likely that the efforts to strengthen the border security would distract illegal immigration than to resolve incentives – primarily economic – to enter the United States
“The benefits of coming to the United States are huge,” Bier said. “You can make people more expensive to come, but as long as the uses are increased here, you will see people pay more, find ways to bypass all the limitations imposed and brought to more chaos and clutter on our borders.”
Bier argued that removing or increasing the restriction on immigration and facilitating employers to sponsors the workers “alleviated a significant part of the problems we face on the border.”
“When I talk to the border police agents, they really want people to come for peaceful reasons, because of work or to connect families, to apply at the consulate so we can focus on our job securing the border from threats, criminals and other people we want to hold From our country, “he said.
Border patrol agents search migrants in March 2024. Near Jacumba Hot Springs, California. (Hannah Ray Lambert/Fox News Digital)
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Meanwhile, in Colorado, Brooks State MP said he would support the “accelerated system” for the processing of illegal immigrants who want to become legal residents, but that they should leave the country to go through the process.
“Return them south across the border and start paperwork for them if they want to naturalize,” he said. “But right now, if you are an illegal migrant in this country, you must be removed.”
