Why do so many immigrants come to the US if it's racist?

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League Girl is probably in her early 40s. She has young kids.

It’s also illegal in the US to marry someone just for a Green Card. Both partners can theoretically be prosecuted.

Close, I was in my twenties when I had them.

But saying that Soviets did most of the heavy lifting is not absurd. Its true. So thats why I don't get how it would fit into a joke with absurdity.

But how can you prove it is "just for the green card". The fact is what you "do" (marrying or otherwise). The "intention" of why they do it (because they are genuinely in love, or "for a green card") is not a fact. So its not provable. Of course, it would "become" a fact after they marry. But at that point it would be too late, wouldn't it.

So were your wife able to immigrate "because" she married you? Or was she already in the US before the two of you met?

Does it mean you are in your 30-s if your kids are still young? Or are you in your 40-s and your kids aren't so young?

Well they were married for two years. I doubt she came out with the truth right after their wedding. And you need proof anyway. It would be his word against hers unless he recorded her saying "I never loved you, I only married you to be a US citizen" when she asked for a divorce. It was out of the blue according to my mother. I never talked to him about it.

Well they're 7 and 10. That is a hint.

Wow, then I must be confusing you with someone else. I thought you were definitely a lot older.

What I am saying though is that if he marries a fellow US Citizen then this would, logically, prevent such a situation, since US Citizen already has a citizenship. Thats why I don't understand why he decided to just never marry rather than marry a US Citizen.

I thought you said once, in a thread, that you were born in 1979, League Girl. I’m probably confusing you with someone else,

The government requires a lot of proof, and requires you to go on many interviews, before someone who is married to a citizen gets a Green Card. The prospective Green Card holder must also pay a few thousand dollars in application fees. They’re extremely strict, and will not grant the Green Card in many cases.

My wife was already a Green Card holder when I met her. She later became a citizen.

Maybe Pepe is actually in his late 80s or older; who knows?

Pepe was probably joking about his age. I’m 60, and I joke about my age.

I thought Pepe said somewhere he is 54 years old.

Money means a lot about survival. It's kinda like asking "why are kids going to school despite all the bullying involved". Ok, kids need to go to school or the government will step in, but I mean that school allows you to get education to make money, so the social aspect of things is put to the side. You gotta take the lesser of 2 evils. America is rich as opposed to some other countries. There is a reason why many ethnic groups only stay involved within their community. Racism is real!

Yep, that's exactly what I said. I have no nuance in my views. All white people bad, all non-white people good. No, I'm saying that there are still a lot of white people with pretty obvious racial anxieties. Non-whites can also be discriminatory of course, though in America they don't have the institutional backing that white racial attitudes do. Also, I love that you rephrased a guy ranting to me about the white nationalist "great replacement" conspiracy theory as "group anxieties."

And poc are dying more of covid due to social factors, not genetic ones. They tend to work in jobs that expose them to the public, so they are more likely to catch it. Then their lower income usually leads to poor healthcare, and poor health outcomes in general. That's why covid disproportionately harms black and latino communities in America.

Historically, yes, there was an institutional backing of white attitudes back in the past. But that basically ended in 60-s or 70-s. As far as right now, the institutional backing is the opposite to what you described. You can find the laws that would favor black people (such as affirmative action and so forth) but you won't find any similar laws that would favor white people since that would be deemed racist.

My mom's ex-landlord was a math professor and he told her about a situation where they had lots of applicants of a professor position, and one of them was black woman. They basically felt forced to select black woman for diversity reasons, but they felt bad about it because there were a lot of better qualified candidates that they had to ignore. Then, luckily for them, that woman withdrew her application. They went to a restaurant to celebrate (although they haven't "officially" said what they were celebrating).