A student at our university was recently shocked to learn that his mother and step-father are illegal immigrants who have been in the country for approx. 20 years. He was born in Mexico but has brothers and sister born in the U.S. His parents work, own a house here, ect. He has a job, is going to be a junior at the university and is planning on getting married. He has a Soc. Sec. card, but now wonders if it is even legit. He wants to find out what he should do next but is worried that he'll be immediately deported if he tries to get help. As a white-bread citizen, this is all Greek to me. What should I advise him to do?
posted by spock
on Jul 2, 2007 -
11 answers
I am trying to remember the of a SNES game I used to play that had been redone and was made available for PC. There was a post about it on me-fi about a year ago but I can't find it.
The premise was that your character was transproted to an alien word and you have to escape their prison and find out how to get home.
I have searched the following tags on me-fi: alien, game, games, videogames, and Nintendo. I remember the post mentioning that the creator was French so I even searched that and got nothing. I have searched other places with no luck.
All I need is the name of the game and I will be set.
posted by graham1881
on May 13, 2007 -
10 answers
I'm looking for titles of any movies
[besides Alien] that feature
parasites attacking pets, humans or other animals. I can't recall any names but I definitely recall seeing hilarious ones from the 50's as a kid. Bonus for ones that are old [but still rentable from Netflix], cheesy and gross [in a somewhat humorous way]
posted by special-k
on Apr 25, 2007 -
47 answers
My SO & I were having a conversation yesterday that somehow landed on the topic of alien life. Essentially, I said something to the effect of "even if there is
intelligent life somewhere in the universe...".
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posted by Laura in Canada
on Apr 12, 2007 -
61 answers
My girlfriend is a very illegal immigrant living in the United States. When we get married, what will the residency process be like?
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posted by anonymous
on Nov 20, 2006 -
28 answers
I'm looking for the title of a movie where the setting is this:
A group of researchers (military?) are in a blizzard or snow storm in what I recall is Alaska or the arctic.
One of them is killing the others, and it turns out to be some sort of Alien or parasite. ...
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posted by iamabot
on Aug 10, 2006 -
13 answers
Um.. now that I have 20 pounds of crawfish, what do I do with them?
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posted by Ugh
on Jul 1, 2006 -
23 answers
Science-fictionish question here, but I figured if zombies were all right, hypothetical aliens would be too. Specifically, interface design for non-humans...
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posted by wanderingmind
on Mar 18, 2006 -
19 answers
Why is a blank stare and a quizzical, staccato head-tilt to the left or right Hollywood shorthand for "I am inhumanly evil/possessed by a demon/a liquid metal killing machine/a humanoid but emotionless android", amongst others?
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posted by Jon Mitchell
on Dec 23, 2005 -
19 answers
Help me identify something from my childhood. I remember having a bunch of little "army men" style Martian figures between 1984 and 1986. They each stood about an inch tall, were made of rubber or resin of some kind (no plastic), and were basically a "Smurfs in Space" knock-off. What were these little guys?
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posted by Servo5678
on Feb 25, 2005 -
9 answers
My sister once took a film course where she learned that each film in the Alien trilogy (not including the 4th one) is supposed to represent some kind of cultural anxiety. [more inside]
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posted by invisible ink
on Sep 10, 2004 -
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