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Posted on 01/20/2026 10:39:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
What role should compassion play when enforcing immigration laws and dealing with illegal immigrants, particularly those who have been in the United States for a number of years?
That question came to the fore following recent events that evolved into a well-publicized, emotion-driven debate. After dropping her daughter off at an elementary school, a woman, who as a child illegally immigrated to the country with her parents many years ago, was arrested and forcibly dragged out of her car by ICE agents after refusing to obey their orders and was then sent to an immigration detention center.
The initial reporting and public reaction centered around the ICE agents’ actions when they forced the woman to leave her car. This was followed by implications of cruelty and unfairness because she was facing deportation after living in the United States for many years. Much of the public was sympathetic to her plight and condemned ICE’s conduct.
The arrest came up during a recent dinner with our two closest friends. All acknowledged that this woman is and has been living in the country as an illegal immigrant.
I asked a question: “Does she have a criminal record and/or a pending deportation order?” The answer was “yes.”
At that point, I noted, “Then there is obviously lots more to the story. Further, she should have cooperated with the ICE agents, and she will have a hearing before being deported. However, regardless of how she arrived in the country, she has had many years to apply for legal status. She chose to remain here illegally and should be deported.”
I could see that my friends were a bit taken aback, as they knew that I immigrated to the United States as a displaced war orphan and had assumed I would be empathetic...
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1. Those who have been here illegally a long time deserve to be deported first. They’ve been stealing from the United States longer.
2. Where is the “compassion” for American victims of illegal immigration?
FROM THE AUTHOR:
I have long believed the purpose of any nation’s immigration policy should be based on the principle that immigration must be beneficial to the overall well-being of the country and that compassion must be limited to the acceptance of a finite number of legitimate and verifiable refugees.
Immigration policy and enforcement compromised by compassion sends a message to potential migrants from around the world—the odds of not only successfully crossing that nation’s border but of avoiding deportation once there are exceedingly high.
For many decades, America’s political parties have cynically exploited the compassionate nature of American society as they created and promoted a scenario of desperate illegal immigrants searching for a better life in the United States while deliberately conflating legal immigration with illegal immigration.
The Democrat party saw potential votes by utilizing government largess to mold the illegal population into another dependable and major voting bloc. And the Republican Party establishment, at the behest of the corporate lobby, viewed these same unfortunates as a source of cheap and easily exploited labor. Bowing to the basest of political motives, money, and votes, the borders have been essentially unsecured for nearly forty years.
I thought this country had rules for those wishing to come into this country, every other country in the world has rules and for the most part compliance is not optional.
I reject this idea that its compassion to let illegals stay in the country if they did not commit other crimes. Does that mean that if I speed and it doesn’t result in an accident, that the cop should not charge me because that is compassionate? There are all kinds of crimes in which you don’t directly hurt someone else that you still can be charged for. Are we saying those should not be charged out of compassion?
Well.....duh.......Most Western countries (with a few glaring exceptions) realize this.
It isn’t. Not enforcing immigration law is the problem
I would deport the felons 1st, especially violent felons.
COMPASSION HAS BECOME EXTORTION
How about never. People are better helped in their own country.
Compassion alone could be, if it were compassion for US citizens.
How about we make policies that benefit Americans?
If a citizen or group thinks an alien should be admitted to the US for any reason from a country that is not visa exempt by federal statute a bond of at least $10,000 for a period of at least four years should have to be offered up.
Aliens who arrive without a bond who should have a bond should be held at a military base until a bond is obtained or they board a plane or bus bound out of the USA.
Aliens should not be able to get US citizenship if they have taken welfare or tapped their bond and not paid it back.
Aliens should not be able to get citizenship if they can’t pass tests of their English and knowledge of our country and its government.
A federal permit should be required to transmit money to a country from which a person was granted refugee status within the past year, a country to which is not always safe to remove a person to, or which a person can use to get TPS.
Persons wishing to take up residence should have to affirm one-by-one American values as listed by federal law and the borders of the US, Israel and Mexico.
Persons wishing to take up residence should be required to describe listed acts on a test as being proper or wrong.
Compassion is not just for the foreigners.
Compassion for AMERICAN CITIZENS would restrict immigration especially of terrorists, muslims, cartels, human and sex traffickers, etc.
Somalian and other communists should not be admitted even if they were sure to be shot dead if not admitted.
Communism is another form of slavery.
sympathy comes before syphilis in the dictionary one leads to the other?.
Persons wishing to reside in the US should have ‘clean’ hands and ‘clean’ minds.
I have no compassion for criminals and their ilk. I have compassion for America.
“she has had many years to apply for legal status. She chose to remain here illegally and should be deported.”
Most illegals are not Murderers, rapists, DUI Drivers or other undesireables who should be deported.
So why do some illegals never get around to applying to become legal? Several answers:
1) They still don’t know to whom they want to pledge allegiance.
2) They plan on retiring to the old country, not realizing that they obtaining citizenship in the US does not terminate citizenship in another country. (Some want to change this.)
3) They are procrastinators by nature.
4) The immigration office in Chicago is extremely corrupt. They left their old country due to the corruption and don’t want to get involved in corruption here. (Is Chicago the only immigration office that is so corrupt?)
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