Dear Editor:
I am writing about a problem which has obviously evaded the attention of lawmakers, immigration lawyers and the judiciary regarding the legal and law-abiding folks who were excluded from applying for permanant residency at the time of the illegal alien amnesties because of the fact that they were in-status and legal. My case accentuates the irony of the amnesties - I have been in the US since 1975 working for an international organisation, but ineligible for residency status because I was legal.
I am interested in establishing a network of such people - as few as they may be - for a possible legal challenge to the INS so that future amnesties would include the relatively small number of people who have obeyed all the laws, paid all the taxes required, would not be penalised for being law-abiding.
Right now, it is dificult to comprehend that a society which espouses the respect for law that the US does would be so dismisssive of folks who practice it.
I would also like to establish contact with lawyers who might be interested in representing such a cause.
Tulsi Das
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