Posted on 05/28/2024 1:04:21 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
As the migrant and refugee crisis unfolds at our border, I want to share a personal story about a formerly undocumented person: my dad.
In the 1980s, my dad took a perilous 10-month journey to cross into the United States. He was arrested, detained and released multiple times and witnessed horrific incidents, including the tragic loss of human life. His successful means of entry was to jump over a fence into muddy waters. A member of his caravan had to toss a tire around him to drag him out.
After crossing into the U.S., he remained undocumented and took on odd jobs with cheap wages to make ends meet. In 1986, luck was on his side and he gained authorization to work in this country legally. He would eventually become an American citizen years later.
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Or not sticking with Bork.
No.
Deport.
The best thing to do is reinstate President Eisenhower’s government plan, “Operation Wetback”, but on a massive scale nationwide to end this illegal invasion problem.
To the illegal who invaded US territory: No. We don’t recognize your citizenship as you didn’t go through the process. It should be harder, not easier, to get into this country.
He gave big pharma freedom from vaccine injury liability also.
If by updating they mean repealing it, all for it!
It really is true that Reagan got rolled when it comes to immigration. Naive about how every Democrat policy proposal since the 60s has been about gaining votes. Republicans get played so often.
Basic conservative economics: if you incentivize something, you will get more of it.
All the walls, the ICEs, whatever will not work, as long as we don't fix the root cause. Sorry.
“Republicans get played so often.”
I wonder why that is.
*please excuse the bad grammar.
... gotta go back a bit further to The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, which Ted Kennedy and Johnson used to destroy our country.
The Democrats kept none of their promises.
Update?! That was the disaster that started all of this. Whether Reagan’s fault (he signed it) or Simpson and Mazzoli, but this was a total disaster for the US. One big bad legacy from Reagan.
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, go to hell.
How about we update it this way. Everyone who received amnesty under it can still stay, everyone else goes home.
A BIG NO to this very bad idea.
I absolutely agree. Anyone since 1986 gets deported, voluntarily or at gun point.
Thanks, Mandeep—but no.
Hell no
“Mandeep Heera graduated from the University of Washington with a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics and later studied Peacebuilding at American University School of International Service and International Relations abroad at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland.”
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