Well, I see it differently. If they are grabbing a rake and using someone else's card, it's not that much different from grabbing a rake and getting paid under the counter. They are economic refugees, and if the difference between feeding your family or not is forging a signature then that's a heck of a lot different from forging any other document for purposes of theft or to avoid prosecution for violent crimes.
How come you're so strict when it comes to some American lighting up a joint? --- then it's throw the book at him. Or an economic refugee trying to make a few bucks selling drugs? But when it comes to people dealing in document fraud and identity theft -- you're real lenient?
They are economic refugees, and if the difference between feeding your family or not is forging a signature then that's a heck of a lot different from forging any other document for purposes of theft or to avoid prosecution for violent crimes. Oh good grief. "Economic refugees"? A PC euphemism is a PC euphemism. Why not call them "Undocumented-Americans"? Oh, that's the left's PC euphemism, can't use that, now can we.
I guess the illegals who stole my rowboat, and stole my blueberry crop three years in a row were just "economic refugees" too, eh?
"Economic refugees" my ass. They are illegal aliens, who make a mockery of our country. They have a country of their own. They can either make something of it, or live in squalor if they choose not to make something of it.
Coming here, illegally, to depredate our country, is not an option.