Apropos anecdote:
This weekend I took my 3 kids to the movies. It’s assigned seating, and I bought the tickets ahead of time, getting 4 together, right in the middle of the theater. Great seats.
When we entered the theater, there was a hispanic family sitting in our seats. 2 parents and 2 portly kids. There was popcorn all over the floor and on the adjacent seats.
There were 4 open seats next to them, so we brushed off the mess and sat down. I looked down the row of my kids, and saw my daughter sitting in the very last seat, against the wall. Then I looked at the hispanic family, sitting in our prime seats.
I got up, went to the dad, and told him they were in our seats. He smiled at me, pointed to the 4 seats we were using, and shrugged his shoulders. Like “what’s the difference?” His wife scowled at me.
Then I said “You’re in our seats, please move.” He looked around, sighed, said something to his family in spanish, and they all started getting up. My kids got out of their seats, the family slowly moved out of ours. Every seat was left full of spilled popcorn. My daughter had to go get napkins from the snackbar to clean up the soda left in her seat by one of the kids.
The family sat in the seats we had just vacated. I felt bad for a minute.
5 minutes later, another family came, and the dad told the hispanic family that they were in his family’s seats. The same thing happened again. The dad shrugged and pointed to empty seats a few rows closer to the screen.
This guy wasn’t having it and said “Get the f-— out of our seats or I’ll get the manager.”
The whole dreamer thing seems to parallel my movie experience. The hispanic kids were sitting in the wrong seats because their parents decided they wouldn’t follow the rules. I had to decide if my kids were gonna watch the movie from crappy seats, or if I was going to defend what I’d planned and purchased.
It may be a coincidence that this family was hispanic /mexican, but I’m not gonna PC-up my experience for fellow FReepers.
Good story and good for you.
They will start deporting themselves once they understand that we’re serious about enforcing our immigration laws, just as you and the other guy made it clear to them.
I think Trump has had bigger fish to fry, but now will move on the illegal small fry. Illegal is illegal, wrong is wrong. Excepting Democrats, we’re a nation of laws.
I suspect he will allow them their grace periods, then no renewals, which was the plan all along but deportations will just start sooner, i.e, no more renewals.
GTHOOMC Mexico.