Being illegal doesn't make you a criminal- my cousin works as border patrol - page 2.

sana8410

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Quote from: commandrix on May 21, 2014, 06:11:48 PM

What I think is that it's sad that children are getting dragged into the whole "illegal immigrant" thing. Yeah, if you cross the border illegally, you're breaking the law and, thus, technically a criminal. But a lot of the really young children don't understand what's going on when they cross with their parents or their parents pay somebody to bring them across the border. What I think we ought to do is, first, tighten up the enforcement system so that there are real consequences to both the people who cross illegally and to businesses that hire illegal immigrants as cheap labor. Second, reform the system so that anyone who is willing to come here, obey the law and make a real contribution to society can do so -- even if they end up becoming a New York City taxi driver, at least they'd be working.

You forgot "OTM". Too many of those caught over the last few years.
Immigration should not be illegal in the first place.

commandrix

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What I think is that it's sad that children are getting dragged into the whole "illegal immigrant" thing. Yeah, if you cross the border illegally, you're breaking the law and, thus, technically a criminal. But a lot of the really young children don't understand what's going on when they cross with their parents or their parents pay somebody to bring them across the border. What I think we ought to do is, first, tighten up the enforcement system so that there are real consequences to both the people who cross illegally and to businesses that hire illegal immigrants as cheap labor. Second, reform the system so that anyone who is willing to come here, obey the law and make a real contribution to society can do so -- even if they end up becoming a New York City taxi driver, at least they'd be working.

zolace

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This is one of the few cases that's a legit undocumented person. Cuban refugee, came over as a child and parents never filled out the paperwork to make him a resident/citizen even though he was 100% legit to receive it. He had a SSA his whole life, joined the military and fought in Vietnam, worked in govt jobs that required a citizenship.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/13/us/after-forming-deep-roots-in-us-man-discovers-he-isnt-a-citizen.html?_r=1

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he thinks this is exactly what it makes you.

On a side note, he works during the pres shift briefing, someone had listed some of his subjects as UDA. Now, he said they usually list them as IA (Illegal Alien), and some of his people were all "wtf is UDA", and the presenter said "Undocumented Alien".

The only illegals he will accept as undocumented as opposed to illegal are the children, or those who crossed as children. Part of any criminal statute begins with "knowingly and willingly", well, children don't knowingly and willingly do much of anything he said. But the parents, they willingly did something they knew to be against the law, yea, illegal, yea, criminal.

What ya think?

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