How about instead of the whole subjective rant about "according to you" we go with the objective reality that illegal entry is, in fact, a misdemeanor. Dingbat Don and his merry morons want to invest billions into prevention of a misdemeanor. They want to invest more into prevention of a misdemeanor than is currently spent on investigation of an assortment of major felonies. And once the misdemeanor is committed ICE spends more in a month tracking down people who committed a misdemeanor than the SEC spends in a year tracking down people who are risking the economic stability of the nation through felony stock manipulations. There are plenty of people who have been incarcerated longer for committing this misdemeanor than I spent in prison for committing multiple bank robberies. Do you seriously not recognize how absurd these facts are? And yet they really are honest truth, rather than your totally subjective narratives about the tangents of the subject.
Tell that it is a misdemeanor to the thousands of legal immigrants that did the right thing, at high cost and effort. What is a "tangent" for you, likely from the comfortable position of having being born there by accident (yes, every birth is basically an accident in geographical terms... choosing your country and moving there, that's another story), is a core matter for others like myself, who were born, again, by accident, in a
Moderator Action: Redacted , but chose to start from scratch in a new place more aligned with their values and principles. If that is tangential to you, well, that speaks volumes... about you.
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Misdemeanor or not, it is breaking the law. It is especially serious because it attacks a core principle of any civilized society: the rule of law above anything and everything. Even if you disagree with the law. People that break it, any law, right from the beginning, are attacking that core principle from the start. If you don't see anything wrong with it, and see only "tangents", maybe you should reconsider your line of thinking, perhaps aided by some visit to one of those countries, not as a tourist, but as an objective observer that tries to learn what their mindset is, what such a mindset can do to your (still existing?) core values and principles. Try that, and then come back to me.
EDIT: see how easy it is to fall into a misdemeanor? Shame on me, I was not trying to evade the autocensor but self-censoring me, but that does not matter: I should have been more careful, intention is not a defense. Please mods, I am not doing any PDMA here, I am trying to use the matter to reinforce my point, as follows, so bear with me.
My point is that what may seem to be a misdemeanor might be something more serious in disguise if you dig deeper than the obvious. To know the average Latino mindset, you have to live among them, for as long as it takes you to start grasping their "idiosyncrasy". Let me tell you one core thing I learned from living there my first 37 years: the average Latino believes that the law is
opinable. What does that mean? Well, translated into simple words, they truly, deeply believe that if they disagree with the law, any law, they are in their right to ignore it. Period. That simple, powerful and poisonous "value" has been at the core of the Latino "culture" since I have memories.
Can you see the danger in such a proposition? Can you put what you deem a misdemeanor under the light of such a Weltanschauung? I have already seen traces of such idiosincrasy among the local population of North America, and it is concerning, because I know from experience where it leads. Such a vision has to be fought anywhere and everywhere, for it truly represents the path to Third World status (I don't need to remind you that what made most Anglo Saxon countries succesful is their strong philosophy around the Rule of Law, now do I?).
Now, imagine the effect of massively importing such a mindset, because that is exactly what you do when having a soft stance on illegal immigration. Do you want to have millions of people that truly believe the law is opinable exerting a growing influence on everyday's life of your citizens? What will the effect be on those locals that are already living by that "contaminated" idiosincrasy? What will the effect be on those who try to still live by the Rule of Law?
I can tell you the end of the story if no one stands up to it. I was there, I know how it ends.
I don't want my children to have to look, once again, for a new country where the Rule of Law is king and the lawbreakers are not only punished, but not let in. Even if it is "only" a misdemeanor (I would say
especially if it is, as it is there where it all starts... nobody in Latin America starts by robbing banks, they all start with what you call "misdemeanor").
