It USED to be that illegal immigrants mostly came to work. Seasonal agriculture, dating to LEGAL prorams during WWII for example.
They KNEW bad behavior had consequences.
Increasinglyly, starting with Reagan's 1986 Amnesty, the illegal immigrant sees fewer bad consequences for his misbehavior.
It is a common joke,, that illegals run away from their auto accidents.
MS 13 IS a violent criminal gang. Not limited to Lost Angeles, but in Long Island NY !!!
I know plenty of (Latinos, Hispanics, Mexicans, etc.) and generally they despise illegals since it casts bad light on them too.
I can make the distinction, and so should Marco.
Amen I know many too. Many that I am quite fond of. But we have to stop illegal immigration. We can't sustain it financially or morally. We are allowing crime to "infect" our country coming from the Mexican border. I don't have the link on me but posted it in another thread about the percentages of illegal drugs that come over the border. If we want to talk about immoral and the inhumane treatment of children try the ones who have to grow up in a meth house.
https://mindfray.com/debate/forgotten-children-growing-up-with-meth-addicted-parents/This is immoral yet we still can't even agree to secure the border. Don't talk to me about immoral to hold children in a clean facility where they are fed, clothed and provided with medical care. Because we are openly allowing drugs of all kinds to flood across an essentially open border. The quantity of drugs that come would not if we were even making a surface dent on border crime. Cartels inside the US control cities and towns along the border. They are established in cities throughout the US where they do their crime business. That is what is inhumane. That we allow them to take over our country. To push their drugs. To traffic women and children for sex. If we have any sense of humanity we must stop the crime that ruins children's lives right here in the US. Citizens of the United States. Living in MS-13 crime infested neighborhoods where they fear to go out of their homes.
emotionally unscathed. Now in my mid-twenties, I am still struggling with the effects of my father’s addiction.
In the ’90s, a landmark study conducted by Kaiser Permanente, California, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention examined the social factors that precede the development of disease and disability. Called the Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, it asked over 17,000 patients to answer a host of questions about their physical health and childhood experiences. In almost 27 percent of the cases, the study found a history of household substance abuse. People who had experienced an ACE—like growing up with an addict—had an increased risk of STDs, obesity, heart disease, cancer, chronic lung disease, skeletal fractures, and liver disease. They also showed an elevated risk of alcoholism, drug abuse, depression, and suicide.
Robert Anda, a co-author of the ACE study, describes it as a kind of Trojan horse: By drawing attention to culturally “important†consequences of exposure to trauma, such as heart disease and stroke, the study motivated people to care more about childhood distress.
Looking back at his research, Anda told me he is most proud not that it proved a link between childhood adversity and physical health issues, but that it inspired a greater conversation about the psychological impact of trauma. Nearly two-thirds of alcoholism, 60 percent of suicide attempts, and half of all drug abuse and depression are related to adverse childhood experiences.
https://psmag.com/social-justice/surviving-secret-childhood-trauma-parents-drug-addiction-94354I think politicians have done us wrong. They are great at talking about the inhumane treatment of illegal immigrants but don't care about Americans who are victims of border crime. Lets dry up the drug smuggling that causes inhumane conditions for our children.
