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I'm not going to fault them either. I also don't take sick satisfaction in some little 10 year old girl being scared because her parents might be arrested for being undocumented.(Some do!) There really is a mean streak out there that has reared it's ugly head. This is a low point in the overall history of this country.
Why should non-citizens be placed ahead of
1) citizens
2) people who are trying to enter the country legally
1) citizens
2) people who are trying to enter the country legally
My post you responded to has nothing to do with the topic you are bringing up. I don't know if you didn't read carefully or if you are just trying to create confusion. I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Your premise is false.
Nobody is faulting them for wanting a better anything, everyone in existence wants that by nature. I was born in Mexico and have lived in predominantly Hispanic neighborhoods most of my life. I don't need Fox to tell me that they run down neighborhoods in Boyle heights, east LA, South Gate, Santa Ana, Anaheim. Illegal immigration of unskilled uneducated poor people have a negative impact on our economy, housing, pollution, traffic, they broke the law and short cutted the system. It's a slap to the Americans and those that came here legally or are waiting in the process.
You don't have to care, it's the equivalent of a child plugging their ears. Real things are happening whether you like them or not.
Why is it a slap?
I've never understood that mindset whether its regarding immigration, welfare, public schools etc.
"Well *I* had to do (X), why shouldn't everyone else?"
Well, because life ain't fair. Why push people down further? How does that make your life or mine any better?
Claimant being the key word here. They don't qualify as refugees.
Then let the process decide that. NO other country separates children from refugee claimants. Guess it takes 'Murican exceptionalism to excel in that. Hoo raa.
I've never understood that mindset whether its regarding immigration, welfare, public schools etc.
"Well *I* had to do (X), why shouldn't everyone else?"
Well, because life ain't fair. Why push people down further? How does that make your life or mine any better?
Seriously you cant understand why its a slap in the face for someone who followed the rules, filled out paper work, paid fees and waited their turn or is still waiting to enter the country as a legal resident with legal resident privileges to see others break the law and sneak in the country illegally, be given jobs, housing, food etc. or why its a slap in the face to anyone who follows the law, procedure, studies hard, sacrifices, etc. to accomplish something the right way to get passed up by someone who breaks the law and cheats and then gets protection and sympathy for their illegal/unethical actions.
Then let the process decide that. NO other country separates children from refugee claimants. Guess it takes 'Murican exceptionalism to excel in that. Hoo raa.
That process does not work, they are trying to game the system. We already know Mexicans, Guatemalans, Hondurans, etc. are not refugees. My country sucks is not a valid reason to seek asylum. As well other than Mexicans, those seeking asylum must apply in the first county they enter. That is not the US.
Most people who offer blanket statements of advice from personal observation most of the time don't follow their own advice.
Some laws are morally corrupt and most of us have enough sense to know it, but some sheep follow blindly.
And you follow it up with a blanket statement. Lol.
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Originally Posted by Magritte25
Why is it a slap?
I've never understood that mindset whether its regarding immigration, welfare, public schools etc.
"Well *I* had to do (X), why shouldn't everyone else?"
Well, because life ain't fair. Why push people down further? How does that make your life or mine any better?
Claiming life isn't fair, but choosing to ignore ACTUAL EXISTING laws that protect our country because someone was born in another country.
A lot of pots meeting kettles today.
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