Hundreds of children being taken from their parents at US border

If someone robs a bank, they are taking something that doesn't belong to them. They are also clearly a danger. Someone fleeing with their family to better living conditions isn't even close to the same thing. Trying to justify the actions of a compassionless government by comparing something as arbitrary as climbing over a fence with armed robbery is more than a stretch.

 

If someone enters this country illegally for the purposes of thriving on our social system, or working without paying taxes, they are taking from all of us as Americans that have paid into that sane support system in case WE need it. Robbing a MUCH larger bank.

 

Undocumented immigrants pay billions of dollars in federal taxes each year

 

Occam's Razor need not apply.

 

More than 700,000 foreigners overstayed visas last year

 

Everyone who thinks Trump is stupid already knows this; this is why waisting billions of taxpayers' dollars on a wall is dumb

 

There isn’t enough America to accommodate all the people in the world that are eligible to apply for asylum. Sorry.

 

How's this?

 

I agree with you. The wall is a waste of money. Take those billions and bulk up our border patrol and enforcement efforts. Hire more immigration judges. Get them proceeded more quickly. Pay to get more immigration staff on board so that 700,000 plus are rounded up when they break the laws.

 

Well it is. But it's shithole regions will get lot larger than they are now. And they will all vote Democrat so it's a win for them.

 

Alaska, Montana, Idaho, New Mexico, Wyoming, Nebraska...these states have a combined population smaller than that of metro NYC. There are parts of West Texas and Northern Minnesota that are virtually un populated.

 

Ya know what, my mind is now changed.
Thanks to you all, I now think illegals deserve more governmental benefits than veterans and America's homeless population.

 

That's weird. I don't believe anyone was making that argument.

 

Don't worry, Nose. They are just trying to dispense bad medicine and it will not be swallowed. The homeless and veterans should get a lot more than they are getting, but if we say it someone will come here to tell us that is wrong, too.

If people are detained for the misdemeanor of crossing a man-made border, they should be able to contact each other. If part of the group is released, having a way to contact each other is not unreasonable. Putting the burden on the ACLU to keep track of kids who have been detained and relocated already is not reasonable. How that is giving them more rights than the homeless or veterans remains unexplained.

 

Oh yes, the almighty America does so much for the veterans and homeless haha. Even though there's 5-10 empty houses to every one houseless person (including children).

The people at OccupyICE are the same ones fighting anti-homeless architecture and opening up communities of mutual aid and squats for both the houseless and refugee alike. In moments of crisis strong communities come together and help those suffering while the glorious American government does nothing. Colonial borders are a plague on the earth.

 

Especially when the crisis is manufactured.

 

"Border Patrol and US Customs, in scenes reminiscent of the dystopian film, Children of Men, have unleashed a massive crackdown on Central American migrants, arresting almost 70,000 in February, the highest monthly total in years. Migrants in El Paso, Texas that have been arrested and captured have then been placed in make shift camps under freeways, photos of which have made their way onto social media, going viral."



"To top things off, Trump recently conducted an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News, where he implied it would be much easier to shoot migrants with a machine gun “like other countries,” but he “wouldn’t want to do it,” and instead, reiterated his demand for a massive border wall that would cost tens of billions of dollars."

- Concrete and Barbed Wire