How is illegally immigrating not an automatic deportation?!
Because the whole political panic over immigration has always ever been about oppressing people, not about actually keeping folks out. That’s why only non-solutions are ever proposed, that’s why even the Trump era policies were more about punishing people than anything. It’s about oppression, always has been, always will be.
Ask yourself this. Why aren’t we going after the companies that employ them? While I don’t like illegal immigration. I dislike companies violating the law even more.
I always hear the illegal alien battle cry but crickets when I say enforce the laws on the companies hiring them.
ETA: I think both parties have become too pro-big business.
Spoiler alert: because it’s about having a pool of artificially cheap labor with no rights produced via oppression. That’s why we’ll never actually seriously deport, and why all the laws around it only ever punish the immigrants themselves. Enabling shitty bosses to land people in jail because they had the gall to ask for one too many water breaks is the entire point. And our government spends insane amounts of money propping up this exploitation, making all of us poorer because the people it benefits donate to the right campaigns.
Seize the money in their accounts, it was ill gotten gains. Use it to pay for a wall and deportations.
We should be a country of laws. The laws state you can’t hire an illegal alien.
There is to much focus on the illegal alien. There are millions of them but there isn’t millions of ceos. We increase the penalty to prison for them and this will work itself out quickly. If they can’t get jobs, they’ll go home.
Focusing on the poor Mexican who crossed the border to work in the chicken plant to me is bad optics. That guy wants to work and provide for his family. I have more in common with him than I do the CEO.