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Politics : ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION THE FIGHT TO KEEP OUR DEMOCRACY -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (1590)	5/18/2007 8:03:34 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 3197

Illegal Immigrants Feel Fear, Mistrust Illegal Immigrants Must Overcome Fear, Mistrust to Take Advantage of Senate Proposal Many illegal immigrants will have to overcome deep-seated fear and distrust of the U.S. government if they are to take advantage of the proposal to emerge from the shadows offered by Senate leaders and the White House. After months of roundups at workplaces and homes, immigrants are now being asked to come forward to authorities, pay $5,000 in fines and return to their homelands to apply for permanent legal residency. Cesar Damian Solis, who earns up to $600 a month laying bricks and pipe in Phoenix, thinks most illegal immigrants would rather have a plan that allows them to remain in the United States while their applications are processed. "I want to wait here and I will pay here," said Solis, 22, who left Mexico two years ago. "Sometimes I think the government is lying. They can say go over there to your country, wait over there. Then they never answer." Alvaro Tarazona, who lives in Miami, also worries about the prospect of returning home to Venezuela. "That's one of the main points that immigrants don't trust," said Tarazona, 19, who came to U.S. with his family when he was 11 years old and overstayed his visa. "Why do they have to go back and how much time?" Immigration lawyers said it is too early to know how many immigrants will accept the offer to seek citizenship. The federal government last offered an amnesty program in 1986 to illegal immigrants who had been in the United States at least four years. An estimated 2.7 million people took advantage of it. abcnews.go.com