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Originally Posted by n david
What a question....
Of course not. It's the entering illegally that's the criminal act.
There are THOUSANDS who want to be free and come to the US LEGALLY.
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What if your name was Jose and you lived in a country where you had virtually no education and most of the people you knew who were making a decent living were dealing drugs and pimping women. You're married and you've lost work and are about to deplete what little savings you have left. You can't find a good paying job anywhere at home that will help you make ends meet. What jobs you can do are slave labor that have unreasonable hours and only pay a pittance. Your wife is scared and your kids are scared. You borrowed money to keep your dingy apartment and to buy groceries. Now the loan shark is threatening your family. One night while talking you and your spouse are staring at the ceiling wondering what you can do. Suddenly it comes to you... you have a cousin Rico in America who would let you stay at his house... you could find good paying work and send money home for your family to live on and pay off the loan shark...all you have to do is sneak across the boarder.
Would you say it would be okay for this person to deal drugs to make ends meet until his immigration paperwork goes through? Or to prostitute his wife or pimp women until he gets all his paperwork goes through? This guy's desperate and so is his family. Any man in his right mind would sneak in here.
Yes, you also have a Canadian named Margret who's been waiting patiently for months for her immigration paperwork to go through. She lives in a middle class apartment in Toronto and works with Systran Technologies. She has a sister who got laid off but is drawing unemployment from the Provincial Unemployment program who is also wanting to immigrate to the United States. She's flat out outraged that Jose has the audacity to break immigration law because she's waited so patiently.
Every situation is different and the two often don't compare.
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