These are not immigrants or people emigrating to the USA legally, they are invading North America the way Africans, Arabs, and Levantine people have invaded northern, western, central, southern, and have invaded some Eastern European countries.
Obama deported a record number of illegal immigrants and illegal migrants and separated trafficked children from their family members or whoever trafficked them into the USA.
IF people want to emigrate, do it legally.
Lets see: kids in cages!! oh noes!
Detention centers getting $700 USD per night per kid from the government.
Well which is it? I posted about the very attractive centers I saw on TV.
They truly DID look like a high end kids' summer camp.
The kids were never in cages. They were in gigantic caged areas as they were being processed in. Then they went to the plush colorful dorms with TVs, video games, toys galore, nutritious food, medical/dental care, education, and dining halls. $700 a day folks.
I guaran dam tee that 99% or more of those kids thought they had died had gone to heaven once they cleared in processing and arrived in one of the spanking new air conditioned dorms. Considering many were living in tar paper shacks, and one or two room cinder-block homes without air conditioning, malnutrition, no medical/dental care, no education, poverty like you have never imagined the dorms seemed like the Ritz Carlton to the illegal migrant children and adults.
This post disheartens me greatly because I know how many Americans share this outrageously out of touch view. Other than the ridiculousness of your suggesting that detained people and separated children are getting treated to a life of luxury that they're enjoying, rather than being traumatically imprisoned and separated from each other at the end of an extremely long and dangerous journey away from everything they have ever known and all of their worldly possessions, where if they are caught and sent back, they often face murder as retribution for leaving, I want to point out the irrelevance of the "do it legally" argument. A quick perusal of the .gov site with the information about the immigration procedure indicates that without having a family member who is already a legal citizen, and/or having a pre-existing work arrangement where an American company specifically requests you by name, it can take 10, 15, even 20 years to even get a visa. Many illegal immigrants are fleeing violence and terror, from an environment where there are wanton murders, constant gang violence, and their male children are press-ganged into the cartels. To expect them to somehow legally apply at all (how does a destitute common person from a third world country even go about understanding how to contact the appropriate offices and engage in the application process?), let alone to apply and wait patiently for years to
maybe get a visa to legally enter the country... it's unrealistic and extremely callous of basic human dignity and simple compassion for the suffering of others.
To anyone who thinks to use the "there are legal channels, they should use those, law-breakers get what they deserve" argument against immigration, could you please actually honestly address this post? Put yourself in their shoes; seriously, what do you expect? What would
you do? Do you mean to tell me that if you and your family lived in a place where the cartels are in control, you're living in poverty, in constant fear of death, knowing your kids are going to be pushed into the lifestyle in order to survive, and the only chance you know about to escape is to try to sneak into America, simply for the ability to work hard to be able to live a decent, peaceful life... are you telling me you would try to apply and hope you get picked in a lottery where only a tiny fraction of the people waiting to get in are selected every year, and sit there and hope everything goes well in the meantime, knowing that if you ever get in, your kids might already be grown (or buried)? Or would you, just maybe, take the chance and try sneak in? Be honest.
Are there some people who try to abuse immigration? Undoubtedly, yes. But victim blaming refugees while you're sitting pretty in your privileged status of being born as a US citizen just doesn't sit well with me.
You know what, I figured it out! Those damn immigrants should have been born in America. That would have solved all their problems, they really should have thought of that before they decided to be born in a shithole country.
I have debunked the pie in the sky narrative of legal immigration being a viable option numerous times in here, including to you before, but of course no one ever actually addresses these points because if addressed, it makes it a lot harder to blame the illegal immigrants and essentially relegate them to criminals deserving of their fate. I expect you to give this an "omg I'm laughing so hard my head is sideways" post reaction. Nevertheless, I will try again, for the possible benefit of someone else reading this who hasn't already made up their mind beyond the reach of reason and compassion.
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I am an independent/moderate and as I wrote I do not like any political party in any country.