When I first moved to the U.S. as a “legal resident alien of extraordinary ability” in 2016, I was a staunch liberal. Going through the immigration process under both major political parties showed me what a crock of crap the Democrats are trying to sell their citizens.
And it doesn’t begin and end with immigration.
In 2016, under the Obama administration, I came to the same realization as most people in the world: if you want to achieve your dreams, you have to move to America. No one in Britain believed I would ever be successful as a nonfiction writer, so I decided to take my decade of experience and prove them wrong by moving to California … and becoming successful writer.
I paid extra to have my first visa approval expedited. It was supposed to take two weeks, but right before the deadline, I was asked to provide additional information to support my petition. Fair enough, I thought at the time, this is normal, especially for a first time alien. What I didn’t realize was the immigration system had just implemented what I think is the Democrats legal loophole. Because they’d technically responded to my petition in the guaranteed time frame, they could now make me wait as long as they wanted to approved my entry after receiving my additional data. It took months. Months I wasn’t able to reclaim at the end of my visa.
After Donald Trump won the 2016 election, people started telling me to marry someone, anyone, to secure my place in the country. I’m not a fan of fraud or disparaging myself or my relationship with God by marrying — or even spending time with — anyone I don’t want to, so that was never going to be an option.
It also showed me that most liberals have no idea how disgusting it is to tell a woman to sell her freedom and body for, what? The right to work? Get outta here!
When my next visa renewal rolled around under Trump in 2019, I........