After years of scoring trophy wives and cheating on them. Sordid, very sordid. Bad "left!" Bad, bad "left!"
I do find it interesting that ICE has complete discretion in these cases and choose to do this. Since this happened in a very liberal state one wonders if this is not just a setup for shock value and negative headlines.
Ask a construction worker what? Construction workers and illegal immigrants don't work the same jobs. Construction workers have high paying union jobs. Immigrants stand outside Home Depot and do the crappy low paying jobs the construction workers won't do.
If you eagerly submit to Big Government bureaucracy, you would not grasp why realists with a moral component also consider the human consequences, breaking up a family and removing a respected, contributing member of a community.
Hah, the hated Christians are sheltering the beloved illegal aliens. How will progressives rationalize that one?
What if you could step up and personally sponsor someone like him? You take full responsibility for 5 years and help them achieve citizenship. The only catch is that you don't get to choose. Does that sound good to you?
I thought about that too, that's a major contradiction. Would progressives contribute funds to churches?
Some of the hardest working people I've met have been illegal aliens. I completely believe that the immigration process needs to be streamlined. Having said that - illegal is illegal. Every job they take is a job an American citizen could have taken. Not only that, but then the American citizen is likely to end up on welfare if they don't find work, so now I'm supporting the jobless citizen while the illegal takes the job. Illegals also use resources they're not contributing to (via taxation) - everything from roads to hospital care when needed. I don't think that's fair to taxpayers, or immigrants who did it legally. PS illegals absolutely work construction. And roofing, domestic work, landscaping, the horse industry, farming, fruit picking....
I would defer such specifics to the public that overwhelmingly supports a path to citizenship This type of draconian statism is making the Mar-a-lago Messiah even more repulsive to Americans. Even Rasmussen now has Putin's Poodle at Approve 43%, Disapprove 57%, simpatico with the cumulative consensus of all polls: 39.1% Approval, 54.8% Disapproval.
So he pays taxes. That represents money he stole from citizens by taking their job. The illegal alien can be just as hard-working, law-abiding, loving, and tax-paying in his own country. Illegally move into one of their countries and see what happens to you. It won't be anything nice.
I'm tired of putting up with illegals. They flood my kid's school and demand education in their native language, fill my emergency rooms, consume my tax dollars in welfare, and require more police to handle their behavior. I've lost 3 friends to their drunk driving. When they can give me my friends back, I'll consider letting them stay. I guess the whole family in the OP can move to Mexico together. I think we should adopt the same immigration policies that Mexico has.
So are you going to answer my question? While you're at it, you ignored posts 46,48, and 51. It is becoming obvious that you are just being sanctimonious.
The employers giving the illegal immigrants the jobs should be made to stop then. I can't blame the immigrant for taking a job offered to him. He's just trying to survive. I suspect most of them wouldn't come to America if they knew they couldn't find jobs. Maybe Trump should go after the employers giving jobs to illegals as aggressively as he's going after illegals.
Your pretending that I control US immigration policy or would want to fantasize about doing so is delusional. Do I agree with the overwhelming majority of Americans that destroying families and banishing upstanding contributors to their communities in obeisance to a rigid, heartless bureaucratic zeal is wrong? Yes, I do.
Of course, as we have seen in recent egregious cases, it is sometimes the undocumented who establish businesses - and create jobs for citizens - that are then victimized by zealous federal bureaucracy.
Yeah funny thing about that.... we have something called e-verify, and when someone wants to implement it they are called racist and bigoted, and it's not allowed to happen. When it does happen, the calls of racism and bigotry continue. Maybe stop calling it racist and bigoted?
So breaking the law is ok if it's going to break up a family? Why have immigration laws at all. Just give anyone/everyone a pass?
I'd heard stories about that. I can't imagine moving my future children to France or Mexico and then demanding the schools there teach my children in English. Something has to be done to stop the flood of illegal immigrants, I agree. I just prefer it be something other than ripping apart law abiding immigrant families who've been here for many years. That just makes America look cruel.