To lie to the people is a crime committed often by elected politicians, and causes 10,000 times more harm than any illegal working his butt off to work on my landscaping.
“If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor, period”
“if you like your health insurance, youcan keep your health insurance, period”
“every families health care premiums will go down by $2500/year”
Those lies have caused a million times more harm than any illegal worker busting his rear end.
I don’t disagree at all about the effect of these brazen, monumental lies. I can see it in my paycheck with the outrageous costs that are hurting me and my family.
But to wave a wand and say that millions of people - only a small fraction of whom are landscapers - deserve to occupy and benefit from the United States when they came here against the law knowingly?
Will such an amnesty extend to citizens on a wholesale basis? If not, why not? Why would foreign nationals have more rights then the citizenry?
There are tens of millions of people with petty crimes in their background, will they be the subjects of a general amnesty and/or expungement? And crossing into the US illegally is no petty crime. Have you ever been to Southern Arizona for example, seen the border, understood what it’s like to walk through the desert with armed men leading you, and carrying a backpack of pot or coke, something illegals are caught doing all the time?
It’s a serious thing and they know it. But being from lawless countries, they don’t care. It’s part of their culture.
But we don’t have to aid and abet that attitude. Nor do we want masses of people here inculcating that idea into our national culture, although it’s already happened to a great extent: the U.S. is far more like a Banana Republic then it ever used to be. It is no small part because of them...the illegals and their enablers.
The harm they have caused is the abolition of our nationhood, and the undermining of our national sovereignty by contempt for the borders that bound it.