Illegals have paths to citizenship? I don't understand that argument at all. There are opportunities for illegals to become citizens. It's a long process because unlike Europe, we like to vet people coming into our country and not just allow anyone to become a citizen. And that's how it is. We shouldn't expedite the process for some illegals. What about legal immigrants who wait years to become citizens? We just gonna let them get cut in line for some carrot that came in here illegally in the first place?
You should never defend people entering any country illegally. A country with immigration laws is trying to protect its citizens and its sovereignty. By entering a country illegally you are showing contempt for the laws of that country and it shouldn't harbor you because of some sob story that has nothing to do with it in the first place.
Illegal immigrants are untrained, undocumented workforce. They can be charged a slave's wage to do work an American citizen could and should be doing for a reasonable wage. And every time someone says what I just said, some idiot jumps out and goes "BUT AMERICANS DONT WANNA PICK TOMATOES FOR SEVERAL DOLLARS A DAY" well no stuff. Who in their right mind would pick tomatoes for several dollars a day, except for an illegal who has nothing else to do? No other opportunities? NO education? These employers exploit them because they can. They cannot pay a citizen that kind of wage. The answer is not to make them citizens after they come in here, because that's rewarding illegal activity. It'd be like letting a prisoner go free after they escape. "Welp, you're out of the gates now, guess you can rejoin society". Like it or not, illegal immigrants do indeed take jobs away, even the small, stuff ones, from legal American citizens. Hell, franchised McDonald's chains probably have plenty of illegals hired in it, you wouldn't say that's taking jobs away from someone who could really use that McDonald's job? Someone legal?
ALSO, people think entering the country illegally just means you slipped past border security. No, plenty of times, they will steal a SSN and can even get an immigration ID from a legal immigrant. Prime example of this is that mother of two that got slated for deportation a few months back. Everyone was all BOOHOO SHE'S A MOM WHY Annoying Orange'S AMERICA acting like she didn't do stuff but cross the border illegally. No, she stole a child's SSN and could've forgeted up that kid's credit before they ever even knew about it. She stole the ID of a legal immigrant and probably caused him all kinds of issues because of it. She was in the country for decades. She was here during Bush, during Obama, and didn't naturalize once? She was still unable to speak English for forget's sake what is she doing here? How can you expect to "make a better life for my children" if the only job you can work involves 12 hour shifts and $1 an hour pay? Bullstuff.
So, for the sake of the illegals, and for the sake of our country, we should deport them, encourage them to come through legally, or maybe even fix their forgeted up country instead of trying to piss off to America, then complaining about how we operate.
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