The Batlord |
06-09-2015 11:27 AM |
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Originally Posted by Black Francis
(Post 1600275)
can you really blame her? I mean. It must suck to be in her position, to have to earn what you were given for free. She shoulda played it cool and all but marrying you for a green card was probably part of her plan before she met you cause love alone is not gonna get her a green card, right?
I dont mean to assume what her intention was, idk the details of the relationship you two had but i do know that these situations most times are viewed as a green card scam without taking into account why foreigners have to resort to that.
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I certainly respect the motivation behind scamming for green cards -- as far as I'm concerned, any Latino who is willing to go through all the trouble and danger of sneaking across the border, and leave behind the life they've always known to come to a place culturally alien to them, deserves to be here far more than somebody who just happens to have been born here -- but it's still unjustifiable to play with someone's emotions like what Plankton is describing.
For someone to actually try to marry someone else, that's big **** for them, and I have a hard time believing that anyone willing to manipulate another human being like that -- at least who's not living in fear for their lives in a brutal dictatorship or war torn hellhole -- is going to be a particularly decent person who would I want to help out.
If a foreigner was so desperate to live here that they were willing to come to me and ask that of me honestly, I can't say that I'd be willing to turn them down. I know it's kind of unrealistic to expect someone to be that forthright, but if it did happen, I'd see their problems as being far more worthy of consideration than my own "selfish" desire to not get caught by the authorities.
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