Road rage killings put San Francisco's liberal politics to the test, setting off a debate over its sanctuary law that shields undocumented immigrants from deportation.
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Gavin Newsome and every member of his council who voted for this asinine policy are criminals pure and simple. If you abet a felon that makes you liable for a part of that felony too, and subject to the same penalties. they all ought to be in jail and locked up for as long as possible.
- 10 votes
Another great liberal utopia, like new orleans, hahahahahahahahahahahaha
- 2 votes
I agree they all need to be in jail and the illegal needs the death penalty. Our government is so corrupt! We need to clean them all out and start over!
- 3 votes
The city of San Francisco has idiots for attorneys (oops, all attorneys are idiots, I mean theirs are criminals) and have made the city criminally liable under California state law. San Francisco is vicariously liable and I have to agree with the obvious...they are aiding and abetting criminals. Since they want autonomy, the President (meaning George Bush) should cut off all federal aid and grants to the city and immediately move all federal departmental and department of defense (DOD) organizations out of the city. The city should feel the bite from losing all those jobs and income from their physical structure support (utilities) and see what they think about that. The FBI should not enter the city limits to assist with any crime allowing the city to deal with their own problems. The final issue is one of fact; the mayor, and district attorney should be forced to adopt these criminals, take them to live in their home and be immediately responsible for their every action.
The whole illegal immigrations fiasco would not even exist if in the late 1980s and early 1990s the politicians hadn't turned to jelly and downsized the military. They should have mandated the Pentagon to redirect the forces returning from Europe to our borders (meaning all four directions on the compass) to patrol twenty-four hours, seven days a week (24/7.) The impact of all that armor (Bradleys and M1 Abrhams tanks) rolling ten to twenty yards apart and Soldiers shooting anyone crossing on sight without questioning them would have prevented all the time and money wasted on the complete issue of illegal immigration. The US Navy and Marines can very easily secure our east and west coasts and the US Army likewise with our southern and northern borders. The US Air Force can be utilize to employ predator drones against all persons (foreign and domestic) who are observed in the act of trafficking these good people who clearly do not belong in our country and are trying to get in less than legally. Special Operations can be employed to surgically remove the drug threat to our country when ever required (and that seems to be all the time) both inside and outside our borders.
The United States has been a friendly country and remains a friendly country, but we need to deal directly and forcibly with the small crap so it doesn't become the festering wound we now suffer. There are legal ways to gain access to our country and people should use those or suffer the consequences (even under the threat of death on site if caught invading our country.) We are directly responsible for the 9/11 events ourselves as a country, on the whole when you think about it. We allow these people to enter illegally and then foster their sorry little butts when the right thing is to toss them out or jail them. The namby-pambies that pour out their bleeding hearts to defend their so called rights (and they don't have any since they entered illegally) should be force to take them into their homes and be responsible for their every act. Those terrorists that entered the country and carried out the 9/11 acts were here because of the namby-pambies. These are the people that should be jailed in GTMO along with the terrorist and share the same fates. If I lived on the southern border I would definitely begin nightly national defense, recreational hunts nightly as I used to do for coyotes and other predators. A cash reward should be offered by the governments at all levels to prevent the "soft invasion" of our borders that leads to events such as 9/11. One day all Americans will wake up to the rising of a different flag and potentially some sorry butt dictator having taken over this country thru this "soft invasion." I dread that day and hope it doesn't happen, but we are certainly headed that way.
They, the gangs, are taking over our city's and the local idiots, Mayor Newsome, are helping them. Lucy, I agree completely. Death penalty for the perp.
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Gee, I am really shocked that this happened in such a forward thinking, liberal utopia. Let me see...San Francisco aids and abets criminals and then are outraged when those same persons engage in criminal behavior. I guess S.F. isn't the Eden they think it is.
What universe does this council come from? What person with any common sense couldn't see this result of that silly sanctuary policy? Maybe the council needs to spend more time thinking about the consequences of their policies before they enact them and less time worrying about renaming a few more sewage treatment plants.
- 8 votes
San Francisco got exactly what they asked for!!! They wanted to help people break the law, so there should be no charges unless the politicians who voted the stupid law in get charged as well!!! Did they think these people would suddenly become law abiding citizens after these idiot politicians encouraged them to break the law in the first place???
- 6 votes
Well, you can ONLY hope, that someone in their family, will get raped, killed, tortured, etc., etc.
Then usually, "they begin to get the message", and see the error of their stupidity!
But then they don't seem to catch on too easily to: ILLEGAL, much less IGNORANT, ABUSE, and malfeasance and misfeance of OFFICE do they?
San Francisco has become a sewage, of corrupt and moronic politicos.
You get what you vote for!
Look who's in the White House!
- 2 votes
Only problem with you comment is that SF is full of idiotic democrats - the current president is one of many idiotic republicans.
- 3 votes
Aw, gee, BILL339279, do I HAVE to look? My stomach is not as strong as it used to be.
The war on Americans is going on. Our tax money used to fund programs to keep and breed killers, drug dealers and other criminals. And the only purpose of those programs is to extinct Americans in favor of s**t. Way to go America. I am afraid that mental degradation (liberalism) is spreading too fast and too deep. Please correct me if I am wrong.
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Your wrong it only the Politician that are doing it the working class and last survey in the us said 80% want the out now. You know the politician that think we are to dumb to know what is best for us they get elected and then are smarter than the people they are to work for.
I say the politician that do this should be in jail for braking fed law. There no better then you and I so time to show them they don't write the law there job was to up hold it.
death for the shooter and jail for the politicians now.
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I totally agree Death to the SHOOTER and jail for the POLITICIANS
- 4 votes
ANNIEK, I think you were trying to say something. I think I might have agreed with you if I could have deciphered it. But, could I have some of what you are smoking?
Hey, they are undocumented immigrants not illegal immigrants. They have every right to be here and kill American citizens. Only members of the vast right wing conspiracy would deny them citizenship and the right to kill Americans as they choose.
Proud of my San Francisco values.
- 3 votes
How right you are Support, freaking neocons anyway. Liberal's naivete is frightening.
NO THE ARE F%#%$# ILLEGAL. i SAY IF THEY KILL AMERICANS HANG THEM IN THE STREETS A FEW OF THEM HANG TO DEATH THEY MAY THINK TWICE
There is no such thing as an undocumented immigrant. An immigrant is, by definition:
An alien who has been granted the right by the USCIS to reside permanently in the United States and to work without restrictions in the United States. Also known as a Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR).
A nonimmigrant is:
An alien who has been granted the right by the USCIS to reside temporarily in the United States.
An illegal alien is someone who doesn't belong here and should be shipped back to their country.
- 5 votes
everything has to come down to liberal this right winger that. the article even says that the individual departments took the sanctuary ordinance too far. that is to say that the people that passed it didn't mean it to harbor felons. that being said, why are we protecting illegal aliens. i'm sure lots of them are good people, but i think they call them ILLEGAL aliens for a reason. criminals or not, they should be deported if found out. this guy's priors should have been enough, but it sounds more like horrible communication, not liberals, that let this psyco stay in the states.
This is what happens when you let the liberal politicians have a free hand. I think the city leaders that are allowing the Federal law to be broken, resulting in deaths of citizens, should be charged just like the one that pulled the trigger. It is bad to say this, but the folks that made the rules are getting just what they asked for, more crime and more deaths. This is California, the media wants us to elect Obama who fits the same ultra-liberal mold, then it will be the whole country.
The government is not doing anything to protect the citizens, we are affording protections to the people who are illegal and doing all the crime. The people of this country need to take the country back. Your Vote is the power we all have, used effectively you can change government. Vote out the incumbents and get new people in office that have the legal citizens right of this country as their main goal.
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Vote out the incumbents and get new people in office that have the legal citizens right of this country as their main goal.
Only problem with this idea is - if we vote in other republicans and democrats to be rid of the current incumbents - we just get more of the same. the names change the BS does not.
Yes VOTE for a 3rd party candidate. they are the only ones who are for the US Citizen!
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Exactly!
If you want to vote republican or democrat all you need to do is pull the lever that reads "just give me more of the same please".
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How can law-abiding and "undocumented" (aka illegal) immigrant be used in the same sentence? Motives for breaking the law aside, being an illegal immigrant means that a person is NOT law-abiding. To establish a sanctuary policy is to set a policy which flagrantly violates federal laws. Again, motives for committing this crime should not be considered, it is dangerous for a nation to have people living within it's boundaries, with no records of those people being here. It's not only dangerous for everyone else, it's dangerous for the undocumented people themselves. There is abolsutely no way to instigate effective policies based off of population and known financial statuses when we don't even know who is in the country. Even those who came here planning to just work, they can be pitied while we still acknowledge that they are here with no way to account for them, and they must be deported. It's not just about arresting criminals who come here and sending them home, it's about the functionality of a nation that allows ANYONE to stay here undocumented for whatever motives brought them here. The situation sucks for many of them, I myself have been there before, struggling to afford something off the dollar menu at McDonald's, counting out pennies. But none of that eliminates the need for legal immigrants while simultaneously have a strong need to deport those who are here illegally.
Houston, San Francisco, and all the other safe haven cities need to retract their policies which actually illegally protect those who are not even legally allowed to be in the country. I'm only here because of immigration, being a first generation American, but there is a strong difference in how this nation can function when it comes to immigration versus illegal immigration, and those who claim that anyone who believes illegal immigrants need to be deported is just anti-Mexican or against immigration itself is ignorantly looking for a way to yell back at logic without having a foot to stand on.
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Beckwolf
Your using FACTS and LOGIC.
Those things, that are usually lost on most elected officials. And to a degree many Americans too....many Americans and most politicians (elected and un-elected officials) just like to have their ears tickled.
They don't like to get bogged down in all those darn facts and truism...the same facts and truism that this nation was founded on.
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We allow anyone to come here from our souther borders and protect them from identification and scrutiny! Any criminal south of the border would be a fool not to come here and create a new ID for himself. Think of who benefits from this and you'll see it's not just the bleeding hearts but BIG BUSINESS. The Republicans had 7 years to do something and all we got was more (20 million illegals) undercutting labor's bargaining ability. We are becoming a country of fools.
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The Republicans had 7 years to do something and all we got was more (20 million illegals) undercutting labor's bargaining ability. We are becoming a country of fools.
Democrats are equally responsible as the Republicans.
And in this particular instance Democrat run SF - not the republicans!
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John-273774
I agree with what you said; except the word 'becoming' because we are already there..
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As an American....if I committed a crime in any other country...and if I did not have the proper papers giving me permission to live in that country....including Mexico....the first thing they would look to do is deport me back here. Case closed. But.... is it ok for undocumented or illegal immigrants to have some sort of safe place here in the US. This man who is accused of killing three family members has had previous run ins with the law and somehow he managed to stay in this country. Three strikes and your out should not apply to him....it's one strike and you are gone!
If you want to come to this country and make a new life for yourself and your family....do it the legal way....if I wanted to become a Mexican citizen...I would have to do the same. But if you sneak into this country be prepared to face the consequences...including going back where you came from.
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Rhonda, I read a very interesting article in our local newspaper on how illegal immigrants from Central America are treated in Mexico. The disparity between our two countries was incredible. Mexican employers treat their illegals horrendously.
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Why do you think they are coming here? Minimum wage labor jobs look great by comparison!
I encourage everyone on this board to get the facts about going to Mexico.
If you are an American and you want to go to Mexico to live and work you have a BIG Surprise coming.
All things are not equal and that includes how the US Government seems to welcome illegal immigrants from Mexico and how unwelcome US citizens can be treated if they wish to immigrate to Mexico and just how difficult it can be.
Just check out the facts, it is an eye opener.
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If Calif . and all the others want to be a paticipant of the UNITED States of America , Then they should be reguired to abide by the laws of the Union . Federal Criminal charges should be brought against them all ( all the way up to Nancy Pelosi ) For breaking the federal laws - and They should be tried for accessory to Murder along with their coveted gang member . They have been exposed for harboring criminals , Once tried and convicted they should no longer be allowed to hold Public office as part of their punishment. There are avenues for succeeding from the Union , and until then , they should abide by the laws of the union .
- 3 votes
The politicians who supported the sanctuary city crap should go to prison as accomplices in these murders. There's no way they could not have known that something like this would happen as a result of their illegal sanctuary policies.
- 4 votes
This isn't about liberal vs conservative or republican vs democrat. It's about law and order. If anyone thinks this lawlessness is isolated to S.F., they're wrong; it's permeating the thinking and actions of local and state governments nation-wide.
If we don't stop this insanity now and re-establish this country as a place of permanent residence for only American citizens, be they natural-born or naturalized, and make it clear that there is no place in our country for individuals who are here illegally, period, end of discussion, we are stupid and deserve the evil that befalls us.
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nick i hate to tell you but every one of the sf politicians who voted for this were LIBERAL DHIMMOCRATS. in fact, if you look at every state and city that has a sanctuary policy it's been implemented by LIBERAL DHIMMOCRATS.
you are correct that it's permeating every segment of society and our country.
- 4 votes
I don't care what church provides "sanctuary" for any illegal, criminal or not, I am part of a group of people that are working to use the law to sue these churches. If you want give me sanctuary then you better be willing to put up enough money to give them a weekly paycheck, medical, legal support. Bull@!$%# to the moral support.
So SF just might end up in court one day for accomadting a criminal.
- 4 votes
Quick solution to this problem -- cut off all federal funding to SF and all other cities that provide sanctuary to illegals.
Also, death for this miscreant!
- 4 votes
Will somebody PLEASE get the illegal "spicks" out of our country!!!
- 1 vote
I come from a small town and have never seen the problems like these until my work had me traveling all over the country. The laws are in place to protect the idiots on the streets and make it impossible for our police to protect us. Most small towns now recognize this and realize that it takes the whole neighborhood to clean out the problems. These idiots are among you, If you dont assemble privately and take care of the problem, another 10 yrs. from now we will have to fence in the cities and shoot anything that crosses the fence. (as far as immigrants) My family came from Germany in 1864, learned english, honored the flag, and worked hard to join the goal and future of this country. My wife is a legal immigrant who speaks english better than i and makes sure her paperwork and legal documentation is up to date. Its the law, if you dont like it go back, thats what my ancestors would have done. Good luck to all law abiding citizens, to the rest of you, the country boys are waiting with their game tags, and thier bored. T
This is Californication at it's best. What do people expect when the entire legal system is geared toward the forced domestication of outrageous behavior? And all neatly supported by a diversionary logic that would make Johnny Cochran proud. If someone complains about anything related to someone who happens to be homosexual, immediately run the homophobe flag up the pole. Complain about ANYTHING related to hispanics, you're definitely racist. Well now you guys got what you wanted. Once the word really gets out, you'll have every gang banger scumbag in the country buying bus tickets to San Fran after they pop somebody. Not only that, if MS 13 has a sizeable contingent in your fair city, you'll shortly be longing for the good old days of crips and bloods. Enjoy.
- 4 votes
the best thing that we as a whole can do to quickly change these cities view is to cancel all our trips and conventions to that city. if we stop spending our money there, then the business community will convince the politicians to correct this problem. we should also be careful of the backgrounds of the people that we elect to public office, if they have strong ties to any immigrant community then they will most likely vote or propose any bill that will help those communities. if you notice most if not all of the opponents of laws of illegally immigration of Hispanic and probably have large amounts of their family here illegally.
However, Newsom "still supports the worthwhile aims of denying the federal government" assistance in deporting otherwise law-abiding undocumented residents, he said.
They're breaking the law by coming here illegally. Law-abiding illegals. What next? Law-abiding murderers.
- 4 votes
I'm still waiting for the liberals that permeate these blogs to weigh in here and defend this left wing wacko policy. Where are you hiding libs?
By the way MSNBC, they are illegal aliens NOT undocumented immigrants.
- 2 votes
Hey here I am, your "Wacko nutbag Liberal!" but unfortunately I am not here to defend any of this SF mess. I am about to surprise you here. I COMPLETELY AGREE that these Sanctuary laws are ridiculous and COMPLETELY UNTOLERABLE! Believe it or not Most of us "LIBERALS" really aren't that sympathetic to these sort of measures. The Liberal policies that I believe in should only be in place for "CITIZENS"
There is a new breed of young kids who think that everyone regardless of their actions should be protected and supported by their GOV and that the GOV should also pay their rent and buy their groceries, Unfortunately for me they've decided to call themselves "Liberals".
Illegal Immigrants NEED to be deported back to their home faster than 2 steps across the border. If they want to move somewhere to make a better life for them and their families, then they need to do it right and according to our laws.
I've always found it strange that millions come over here every year and refuse to even attempt to learn about the Country they've decided to call their new home. If I even just travel to another country for a WEEK, I spend a good amount of time studying and learning at least a little about their culture, laws and ways, and also a decent amount of their language OUT OF RESPECT of being a visitor. There is no reason whatsoever that any MExican Immigrant legal or not should not put in the effort to do the same for the country they're permanently relocating too. It's reckless and disrespectful.
Bottom Line, I as a "BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL" will always believe and support and act upon the fact that our GOV needs and should be protecting it's real natural Citizens before ANYTHING and ANYONE Else. That's as liberal as it gets.
This issue is just going to keep getting more out of hand every week until Dems, REP, Libs and 3rds, stop creating ways to blame one another and start being "AMERICANS" and stand up and protect our homes and families. But do so while still knowing that we aren't the only country in this world.
How are we ever going to be able to welcome anyone to our country if we can't even organize and support ourselves?
Hey here I am, your "Wacko nutbag Liberal!" but unfortunately I am not here to defend any of this SF mess. I am about to surprise you here. I COMPLETELY AGREE that these Sanctuary laws are ridiculous and COMPLETELY UNTOLERABLE! Believe it or not Most of us "LIBERALS" really aren't that sympathetic to these sort of measures. The Liberal policies that I believe in should only be in place for "CITIZENS"
There is a new breed of young kids who think that everyone regardless of their actions should be protected and supported by their GOV and that the GOV should also pay their rent and buy their groceries, Unfortunately for me they've decided to call themselves "Liberals".
Illegal Immigrants NEED to be deported back to their home faster than 2 steps across the border. If they want to move somewhere to make a better life for them and their families, then they need to do it right and according to our laws.
I've always found it strange that millions come over here every year and refuse to even attempt to learn about the Country they've decided to call their new home. If I even just travel to another country for a WEEK, I spend a good amount of time studying and learning at least a little about their culture, laws and ways, and also a decent amount of their language OUT OF RESPECT of being a visitor. There is no reason whatsoever that any MExican Immigrant legal or not should not put in the effort to do the same for the country they're permanently relocating too. It's reckless and disrespectful.
Bottom Line, I as a "BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL" will always believe and support and act upon the fact that our GOV needs and should be protecting it's real natural Citizens before ANYTHING and ANYONE Else. That's as liberal as it gets.
This issue is just going to keep getting more out of hand every week until Dems, REP, Libs and 3rds, stop creating ways to blame one another and start being "AMERICANS" and stand up and protect our homes and families. But do so while still knowing that we aren't the only country in this world.
How are we ever going to be able to welcome anyone to our country if we can't even organize and support ourselves?
Hey here I am, your "Wacko nutbag Liberal!" but unfortunately I am not here to defend any of this SF mess. I am about to surprise you here. I COMPLETELY AGREE that these Sanctuary laws are ridiculous and COMPLETELY UNTOLERABLE! Believe it or not Most of us "LIBERALS" really aren't that sympathetic to these sort of measures. The Liberal policies that I believe in should only be in place for "CITIZENS"
There is a new breed of young kids who think that everyone regardless of their actions should be protected and supported by their GOV and that the GOV should also pay their rent and buy their groceries, Unfortunately for me they've decided to call themselves "Liberals".
Illegal Immigrants NEED to be deported back to their home faster than 2 steps across the border. If they want to move somewhere to make a better life for them and their families, then they need to do it right and according to our laws.
I've always found it strange that millions come over here every year and refuse to even attempt to learn about the Country they've decided to call their new home. If I even just travel to another country for a WEEK, I spend a good amount of time studying and learning at least a little about their culture, laws and ways, and also a decent amount of their language OUT OF RESPECT of being a visitor. There is no reason whatsoever that any MExican Immigrant legal or not should not put in the effort to do the same for the country they're permanently relocating too. It's reckless and disrespectful.
Bottom Line, I as a "BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL" will always believe and support and act upon the fact that our GOV needs and should be protecting it's real natural Citizens before ANYTHING and ANYONE Else. That's as liberal as it gets.
This issue is just going to keep getting more out of hand every week until Dems, REP, Libs and 3rds, stop creating ways to blame one another and start being "AMERICANS" and stand up and protect our homes and families. But do so while still knowing that we aren't the only country in this world.
How are we ever going to be able to welcome anyone to our country if we can't even organize and support ourselves?
Hey here I am, your "Wacko nutbag Liberal!" but unfortunately I am not here to defend any of this SF mess. I am about to surprise you here. I COMPLETELY AGREE that these Sanctuary laws are ridiculous and COMPLETELY UNTOLERABLE! Believe it or not Most of us "LIBERALS" really aren't that sympathetic to these sort of measures. The Liberal policies that I believe in should only be in place for "CITIZENS"
There is a new breed of young kids who think that everyone regardless of their actions should be protected and supported by their GOV and that the GOV should also pay their rent and buy their groceries, Unfortunately for me they've decided to call themselves "Liberals".
Illegal Immigrants NEED to be deported back to their home faster than 2 steps across the border. If they want to move somewhere to make a better life for them and their families, then they need to do it right and according to our laws.
I've always found it strange that millions come over here every year and refuse to even attempt to learn about the Country they've decided to call their new home. If I even just travel to another country for a WEEK, I spend a good amount of time studying and learning at least a little about their culture, laws and ways, and also a decent amount of their language OUT OF RESPECT of being a visitor. There is no reason whatsoever that any MExican Immigrant legal or not should not put in the effort to do the same for the country they're permanently relocating too. It's reckless and disrespectful.
Bottom Line, I as a "BLEEDING HEART LIBERAL" will always believe and support and act upon the fact that our GOV needs and should be protecting it's real natural Citizens before ANYTHING and ANYONE Else. That's as liberal as it gets.
This issue is just going to keep getting more out of hand every week until Dems, REP, Libs and 3rds, stop creating ways to blame one another and start being "AMERICANS" and stand up and protect our homes and families. But do so while still knowing that we aren't the only country in this world.
How are we ever going to be able to welcome anyone to our country if we can't even organize and support ourselves?
Common sense is dead! We are so worried about how the rest of the world views us that we will defend the rights of the accused and ignore the fact that it was the VICTIM that was wronged. Our legal system is most to blame for this shameful fact. We as a society have given up a system that will protect us and punish wrong doers for the right to sue anyone for any reason. When a criminal (white collar or street thug ) has more rights than the people harmed we have GIVEN up a part of our history that was paid for in blood , sweat , and tears of our forbears. We should be outraged and demand that the elected officials return to the the basic laws handed down to our parents. When a person or persons CHOOSE to break the law no matter what the infraction THEY forfeit their rights as citizens and should be punished by a set of laws that know not race , religion , or social standing. " OF THE PEOPLE FOR THE PEOPLE AND BY THE PEOPLE " These words should apply in our lives as long as we exist as a country of laws .
- 2 votes
When will people understand the simple fact that.... THESE ARE ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS!!!! Illegal means they have broken the law to begin with.
Send ALL illegals back to their home country and let them get in line for entry into the US, just as law abiding people do to get into the USA the right way.
Illegal is Illegal. It's as simple as that.
- 2 votes
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