My buddie Mike grew up in El Paso, Texas and his his parents themselves were immigrants from another country so is very stmpathic towards those trying to get in the country. He works with a lot of Mexicans and tells me some of the stories of their problems getting here legally and problems they encounter when they get here.

The story he told me that impressed me the most is the one about the crooked lawyers that take the persons hard earned money and purposely file the wrong papers, don't file and make excuses and just leading the people on, trying to scam them out of more money. There are lawyers that are making a killing doing this and it is happening to many people. The ones he talked to gave up and just crossed the border illegally and no longer trust the system that is suppose to get them here legally. I don't know what you paid but he had some tell him they paid $5000 to one of those lawyers and even if it was his fault the wrong papers were filed, he wants another $5000 to file the correct ones.

Now, what I did when I hired a lawyer to streighten out some legal stuff for Mama after my step Dad died and his kids in another state needed to sign some paperwork so Mama could put things in her name. That lawyer sat on those papers for years which worried Mama nearly to death. I got fed up (wasn't returning my phone calls either) and I went out and bought 8 post cards and every week he would get one from me stating what it was about and this had gone on for "X" number of years and it was time to end it. If he did not have the time, please say so, so I could get someone else! I only had to mail 3 of them to him and I got the package in the mail saying he didn't have time to do that.. I hired another lawyer immediately and ALL that was needed was a trip to the courthouse to file the papers and it was DONE! Lawyer # 2 laughed his butt off, said Lawyer #1 was at that court house several times a week, had all the peperwork already printed out, signed and done.

Lawyer #1 was obviously annoyed with the fact that I was sending post cards that anybody could read and sent them through the public mail system weekly so it had to pass through a lot of hands before it got to him.. Not good for his reputation as a high dollar attorney.