Guess the punchline
The LA Times seems to have developed a sub-specialty in rather odd hard-luck stories of immigrants. Can you guess the punchline to this one, a sad tale of a man who has not been able to get a green card to support himself and is now a burden to his family? LAT:
Ali dreamed of reuniting with relatives in the United States and working a few years before retiring. But since arriving here legally from Pakistan three years ago, Ali has not been able to find a job and said he has become a heavy burden on his daughter and son-in-law. “They are not in a position to support me,” he said. “Dollars are not growing on trees.”…immigrants depend on family members for financial support. And with the economy collapsing, relatives who sponsored them for green cards and agreed to be financially responsible for them are increasingly having trouble doing so.
Ali was sponsored for a green card by his family, who agreed to be financially responsible for him as a condition of his admission to the US, presumably until he got his green card and went out on his own. The punchline to the story: Ali is 70 years old.
(Maybe there’s something in the $789 billion boondoggle that will help the fellow. Finally, as if this wasn’t enough insanity for one day, get a load of this.)
February 12th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
Yeah. One wonders how many rocks the LA Times had to turn over to find this guy? The timing of the story strikes me as odd. CA isn’t exactly awash in welfare funds. Not sure how this helps Obama, so what is the point of calling the public’s attention to this guy?
February 13th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
Those papers mean something, and if you’re not prepared to live up to the agreement, don’t sign. I get outraged when I read things like this, because what these people are really saying is, “We lied, we don’t want to support him, we want to dump this problem on the taxpayers.” The solution is simple, deport him if they won’t support him. It is not our problem.