Illegal Immigration

[bennyboy]

The law is an ass in this case.  It is every moral person's duty to actively disobey the ass of a law.

There are lots of laws I personally disagree with. However, they are laws, and as a citizen I have a duty to obey them.

There's nothing wrong with fighting against laws, or voting for someone you think is likely to remove or improve them. But when every citizen becomes arbitrator of which laws should / shouldn't be followed, then the idea of the rule of law has little meaning.

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As a liberal person, I am 100% for border security, but I also recognize that people are people, and they all have their stories, and while there are plenty of people who will break the law, by a good margin, immigrants, illegal or no, are less likely to commit crimes. They do the jobs that most Americans don't want to do. Sanctuary cities are simply an acknowledgement that every major city has a illegal immigrant population, and that everyone is safer if they can interact with law enforcement without fear of being deported.

There are many unemployed people, and yet most of them don't want these jobs.  Are they lazy?

This is what happens-- cheap-working immigrants drive wages down.  Nobody wants the shit-wage jobs, but employers have no compelling reason to pay more, because there's an endless lineup of new immigrants willing to work for less and less.

Who benefits from this?  The immigrants who are happy just to be in the US, and the rich fuckers who get near-slave labor.  Who does not benefit from this?  The many poor people who ALREADY live in the supposed land of opportunity but have no opportunity.

Letting in little Manuel from Mexico looks good on a newsreel.  But it also means that many blacks and hispanics who are dreaming of a fair wage for an honest day's work are very unlikely to see those dreams fulfilled.