So we are later into the thread and Trump is now President.
I want to touch on an issue that will soon be causing rancor, sadness, joy, confusion, you name it...over this immigration thing.
And I only got some thoughts on the matter as goodness, my priest is from India, my tenant is from Guatamala and the people who do my nails are from Vietnam.
I have learned very much these past few weeks and now that we have a president who is going to finally right this out of whack immigration system, let me share some thoughts.
First, my tenant, Beelow, well he declares he is legal although I have my doubts. He did, however, slap down something in front of me at my kitchen table that would, I assume, show his legality.
It was his passport and hey, I didn’t know what the hell to look for. Beelow is quite an honest guy I caution and maybe he is legal. He’s not a known liar or anything. So don’t take my comments out on him.
I do know he does not have a driver’s license and I got to wonder why.
Anyway, Beelow is a DACA person, or so he claims. He was brought to America by his parents. Now he might not meet the age requirements to be exempted under DACA but it doesn’t matter because Trump is eliminating a bunch of Obama’s executive orders.
Whatever the case, I DO think that DACA (the exec. order that allows those brought to America as youths to not be deported) people, to include Beelow and his wife, should NOT be granted any kind of blanket amnesty.
I do not think that everybody here, illegally and for whatever reason, should be given amnesty of any kind.
I think they should have to learn English, they should have to pass a citizenship test, they need to be documented and damn they need to get driver’s licenses if they don’t have any.
Do I think they should be deported first?
Well there’s your debate and for now I am not going to argue. I can’t imagine sending Beelow, who’s lived in America now or almost 15 years, and his wife, who speaks very little English by the way and this should not be, would do anybody any good.
Beelow has three children, all born in America. I don’t suppose they’d have to be deported but I don’t know.
The long and short of it, YOUR elected officials created those illegal sanctuary cities which was an invite, let’s get real, to all illegals if they could make to our shores.
My own state of Delaware made the University of Delaware a sanctuary university, whatever that means, and who the hell had the authority to do that?
I know some arguments are that it don’t matter that San Francisco was named a sanctuary city, those people knew they were breaking the law when they came here without papers.
If a banker puts out piles of money on a table in front of the building, and some thieves come along and take it....what the hell.....I understand why that’s not quite the same thing for those stealing the money as maybe using a gun and sticking people up. There is a difference.
First thing, get rid of sanctuary cities and sanctuary universities and arrest any elected official who thinks it’s within their purview to break our own federal laws.
THOSE ARE THE BAD GUYS!
I will not argue this point further as it’s a delicate subject around here. But I am a decent and fair human being and I hope this problem gets handled methodically.
I don’t see deporting Beelow and his kids as any kind of solution, assuming Beelow is illegal.
And I do NOT think it’s going to happen.
But blanket amnesty is also not the answer.