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Last December, Mayra Machado was pulled over for a routine traffic stop in Arkansas. She had an unpaid ticket for failing to yield. And as a teenager, she'd spent four months in boot camp for writing bad checks. Now 31, the single mother of three, who is an undocumented immigrant, faces deportation to El Salvador, the battle-scarred country she fled when she was 5 years old.
Minor crime, major crime, felony. NONE of that matters.
What matters is that she is here illegally, and as such, should be escorted out of the country. Period. As for her anchor babies (which someone will surely mention) she can make the choice to leave them here while she goes to El Salvador, or take them with her. A choice, just like she made to live here for 26 years illegally. She's had all those years to become a citizen, yet did NOT.
There is a bigger problem than illegal immigrants: Those people who support them and cover up their crimes. They have to be addressed, they have to be pushed into illegality. Make it a felony to give a job to an illegal, not with a fine but a federal prison sentence. Anyone marries an illegal should be made illegal. Even the USCIS should not help them: Visa applications for people already here illegally should be rejected. If they were here illegally and marry a us citizen, they would be granted a green card: make sure they are never eligible for citizenship and voting.
I'd certainly would like to know what those exceptions could be.
I think I should try to be more accurate. Of course, I don't know everything about immigration. What I meant was that I understand his application to be an adjustment of status, which I also understand allows them to stay while it is being considered. I do not know if he was undocumented originally and then applied for a visa under older rules. It said he has been waiting 19 years, if I recall correctly.
Legal immigrants can be deported for even minor crimes. Illegals should be deported because they are here illegally. Other crimes are just additional reasons to deport them.
A country without law and a border is not a country.
End of story
Make everify mandatory and severe penalties to employers who hire illegals.
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