i have no fear of immigration when it is done legally and those that are coming across our border are being vetted. My unsourced math is telling me that more than 90% of these 10 million plus illegals have not been vetted. That number should concern anybody. If the majority of these people are good people, then take 10 of them into your house with your grandchildren. The only caveat is that you don’t get to know anything about them. You don’t get to choose them or what country they came from and you can’t ask any questions of them until their immigration hearing 10 years from now.
So humanity is not supporting US border law? What other laws should we ignore in the vain of humanity? I mean a pedophile is attracted to minors instead of a consenting adult, a child abuser only has anger issues so we should let them slide on those also. It’s only a law and it is not humane to punish them for breaking those laws Or for coming into this country illegally.
I am actually starting to find humor in this clown show
I will try my best to make this my last post on immigration (haha, I always allow myself to get sucked back in).
My thoughts on illegal immigration have certainly changed a lot over the years (which, it should be noted this has been a hot button political issue for the 40ish years that I have been old enough to be politically aware with blame pointed at whatever party is in power and then ignored after the next election cycle).
It was not all that long ago that I was very much in the camp of "if they are illegal immigrants be definition they are criminals" with the corresponding hardline stance.
Some of the things that have changed my mindset have included:
1) the realization that the current immigration system has basically no options for the average person to legally immigrate to the US- meaning that my own ancestors would very likely not have been able to legally enter the US had the current system been in place.
2) increased interaction with people in different circumstances. I suspect I am one of very few here on RME that have sat down with a group of refugees (in my case refugees who fled the war and violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and living in a refugee settlement in Uganda) and just listened to their answers to the questions "what are your biggest challenges?"
Seeing those same people striving to make the lives of their fellow refugees better, their hard work and intelligence, is inspiring.
3) the very simple fact that I cannot identify any way that my life has been made worse by those entering the US, including those doing so illegally.
That said, my current position is not to cheer on or encourage illegal border crossings- you are right that too many are not vetted and there is no question some bad apples make it through (although as previously discussed they are arrested for violent crimes at far lower rates than are US born citizens.)
However, I also choose not to vilify those who come and cannot justify using them for political outrage as both parties have done over the years.
As I have said repeatedly in this discussion we need our politicians to actually address the great need for wholesale reform of the immigration system and stop using desperate people to score cheap political points by inciting fear and anger.
