Comment by bakies
6 days ago
> A popular technique is to conflate illegal immigrants with legal ones for the benefit of argument.
Yes, I'm not. The Administration is.
Removing people is cruel. I doubt most deserve it, in fact I know most don't. Deport the actual criminals, sure. That's not what is happening today.
Ideally there is no "line." Proper procedures should be easy. If people are crossing the rivers and crawling through razor wire to get here then the policies make it too hard to enter the country. There's also a good excuse of being afraid of authority. So if they did cross the border improperly (not a criminal offense, btw), I would still like to hear them out and get them documented. Fine them, like the law says.
> If people are crossing the rivers and crawling through razor wire to get here then the policies make it too hard to enter the country
This is an opinion.
> not a criminal offense, btw
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/8/1325
You were saying?
> Fine them
The law also says "jail them" - let's just deport them and save the cash.
> Civil Penalty
Traffic ticket makes you a criminal? Deport you for speeding?
> The law also says "jail them" - let's just deport them
How about we follow the law. You're the one that cared so much about lawbreakers. Stop being cruel.
> Traffic ticket
Maybe read or ask an LLM to summarize part (a) for you? Civil penalties are in addition to the criminal ones - reading can be tough, I know.
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