quote: "There is a line. The problem is people don't want to get into that line (they want to get in here tomorrow). In fact, the U.S. embassy sponsors a green card lottery and some people have been able to come up that way. People do have the legal means to get here, they may not have the $$ requirements...but get this: some of them manage to scrape up the money to pay the coyotes (which sometimes is in excess of Five thousand dollars)!!!"
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Ah, but that's where the myth is. That lottery is open only to nationals of certain countries, mostly European. Mexicans and other Latin Americans are not eligible. The only other way to "pay" your way into legal status is to invest $1 million in an enterprise that will create 10 jobs. Obviously, that's not an option. Five, or even ten, thousand to a cayote is the only choice.