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Do you support illegal immigration?

If so i am curious if you support it enough to that you would take some illegal immigrants into your own household and let them live there with you?
People who say they support it, normally like putting on this act that they care so much so i am curious just how much you care..

Also those who constantly go on about seperating children from their parents when it comes to those who enter the country illegally, do you care so much when people in your country break the law and get a prison sentance and can not stay with their children? never see any one protest rights for prisoners and not to seperate their families..

just a thought. i know some people are going to get their panties in a twist over this as it always happens when these questions pop up but maybe instead of getting all angry about the law, you should get annoyed about those who break it and not act as though they deserve handouts for doing so

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SW-User

Short answer: no

Long answer:
Anti-immigrant hysteria and bigotry has been a long running tradition in the US. My descendants are primarily Irish and Italian, and at the time they came here, both were vilified and blamed for various ills of society by nativists. Although vilified, they were still allowed to immigrate even though they arrived without papers or permission at the onset.

As long as a country exists, there will be people attempting to enter it and leave it. Immigration and emigration are just the cost of doing business, so to speak, if you are a country. There needs to be much swifter and much more efficient adjudication of cases for asylum, permanent citizenship, and temporary work allowances. It shouldn’t take a decade to determine if someone should be granted citizenship. This system needs to be fixed, but not scrapped. The answer isn’t simply to build more/bigger walls and sealing off the country, nor is it to throw our hands up and kick all the doors open by decriminalizing border crossings, not vetting anyone, and just letting everyone in. It’s a complicated issue that needs more thought, ingenuity, effort, and compassion than this country appears to be able to muster in this moment.

wildbill83 · 41-45, M

@SW-User There's no such thing as an "ideal solution" to a complicated problem...

something that the world is keenly forgetful of...

SW-User

There's no such thing as an "ideal solution" to a complicated problem...

There never is. Unfortunately, the loudest voices in the room are on both fringes. Solutions tend to come when reasonable people meet in the middle. We seem to have a dearth of reasonable people these days. Reasonable Republican moderates have long been ostracized as “RINO’s”, and moderate Democrats have been pushed aside for not being progressive enough. Somewhere along the way, being a moderate and seeking compromise has become anathema to both parties. That’s why I’m saying that we don’t possess the thoughtfulness, ingenuity, effort, or compassion that would lead to problem-solving. Hopefully, the next generation can do better, because we’ve failed on virtually every front.

@wildbill83

wildbill83 · 41-45, M

@SW-User immigration in the 1600-1800's was quite a bit different than it is today...

So using that as a basis of endorsing illegal immigration is a moot point

our ancestors came here to escape turmoil and famine in their own countries, not bring it with them as immigrants often do today...

SW-User

using that as a basis of endorsing illegal immigration is a moot point

At no point did I endorse illegal immigration in my response. My point is that there have always been immigrants showing up on our shores and borders without paperwork. It’s not like this is a new phenomenon. The reality is that the system to handle immigrants is deficient whether they’ve started the process before arriving or not. We’re not in a climate where people are interested in actually solving anything, because that would require civility and compromise, which current leadership is completely incapable of and the populace in general has no appetite for.

@wildbill83