gbaji wrote:
It's just hard to see stuff like this and other immigration actions (like that whole nuttiness at UCSC) and not see a pattern of certain people taking ridiculous actions in the name of fighting for the right of illegal immigrants to stay in the US. I could totally see someone that invested in this fight actively seeking out people on a deportation list and then finding any way possible to "save" them.
You'd think at some point someone would step back and ask if this is really the kind of person we want in the US in the first place? Forest and trees and all that, right?
You know, last night Angela Merkel was on German TV and a young female refugee in the audience told her that all of her friends were going off to uni and she wanted to also but she was afraid she was going to be deported. Merkel responded by telling her, in sum, "well we can't just take in everyone, sorry about that" and she's facing a **** storm this morning because of that.
I know, different country. But the same thing happens here - there are unlawful immigrants (an illegal is a sick bird) who's children establish a life here, make contributions, and are afraid of being deported. Wherever you stand on the issue, you need to understand that there's an anti-gbaji somewhere looking at that kid, who just wants to go to uni and make a positive contribution to the country, and saying that "You'd think at some point someone would step back and ask if this is really the kind of person we want to kick out of the US in the first place?"
I guarantee that anti-gbaji would agree that the di
ckhead in SF is not the kind of person we want in the US in the first place. But unrelated, individual cases do not make for strong evidence one way or another. Also, maybe if things weren't so bad over there, "they" wouldn't want to come over here.
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Hermann Goering, April 1946.