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Legally Married

There has been an issue with marriage in the United States in more recent years. This issue is green cards through marriage. The idea behind this is that in order to gain a green card, you could just be married to a United States citizen. Using this information, many people trying to stay in the United States will come and get married to someone who is willing to marry them in order to gain green card status. This defeats the whole traditional value or marriage. Marriage is meant for people who are in love and want to spend their lives together. The paper work and all the legal parts behind it is usually just to make it official and viewed from the government as married. These people who have green card marriages are only doing it to be able to stay in the United States. I think that many of these marriages in Las Vegas have come because of green card marriages or just to gain the legal status of married. In my life, there has been one green card marriage close to me. A person at my church came to America, but was still a South Korean citizen. He was supposed to go back to South Korea to serve in the armed forces, but he met this girl in Canada. He then moved to Canada and got married, avoiding having to serve in the Korean military. I didn't know his relationship with the girl. Maybe they truly had a genuine relationship and the timing was just convenient, but it seems like everything was rushed. This is an example of an absurd marriage, but I don't think he has the same "Panglossian character[istics]" as some other people (Didion 104).

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