Just a quick question...

I have been following this guys story for several weeks now and I had a thought.

In that story is the line,

"Mr Culleton entered the US in March 2009 as a tourist..."

That is then followed a bit later by the line,

"...he was in the final stage of the process of obtaining a green card when he was picked up by ICE agents."

Which leads me to ask,

If he got here in 2009 with the intention of staying, why didn't he start the process of getting a green card back then?

It takes anywhere from 2 - 10 years to get a one and that means that at the very latest, he would have gotten his legal resident status in 2019.

The reason I ask is because there sure seems to be a lot of people who suddenly realized they were in the country illegally and if they apply for legal status, maybe they won't get grabbed by ICE. And if they do get snatched off the street, they can say, "Hey! I applied for legal status and they just grabbed me off the street for no reason!"

I don't agree with the mass deportations that are going on because not everyone that gets grabbed and bagged is a criminal. Some of them are perfectly good people who would make great citizens.

But dammit, there are a lot of people in this country who are here illegally and it ain't right. It makes those people that went through the process look like fools for working their ass off to become a citizen.

People like my good friend Shahnawaz (I used to call him "my little brown friend" but my boss told me to knock it off) who came to this country from Pakistan and immediately started the process to obtain his US citizenship. It took him about 6 years to do it but we had a big party with lots of American flags when he became a citizen.

Getting back to Mr Culleton, add in the fact that it looks like the only reason he came here in the first place was because he was a wanted criminal in Ireland. We have more than enough illegal alien drug dealers in this country already so he is not the kind of person we should welcome with open arms.

There, I said my peace. I'll go back to shutting up about the whole illegal aliens and ICE thing now.

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The US remains in third place in the medal standings

In curling, the US men have dropped to fifth place in the standings:

While the US women remain in second place:

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