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Originally Posted by astronaut x
The left doesn't want illegals. That is a myth perpetrated by the right. Meanwhile businesses continue to hire illegals and exploit them as slave labor. Making the ones here now legal, would ruin that. The government brings in more illegals every year then those that cross the border, in order to fill jobs. Lots of them simply stay.
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No one wants illegals. If someone is here illegally, I want them arrested and deported, and sent back home. In fact.... Put them in prison. Violating our border is a serious crime which should require jail time. Arrest them, put them in prison for two years, fine them $20k, and then ship them home. Give them a proper deterrent not to come back here illegally again.
With that said, my local police department doesn't handle federal crimes. They handle local crimes. The FBI and ATF doesn't home down to my home town and patrol our streets and hand out traffic tickets or handle domestic disputes. My local police department - which has three or four officers on duty at any time in a town with 50k residents - doesn't have the time, money, or resources to be chasing down, arresting, and detaining illegals. We have the Border Patrol and ICE to do this, not our local police departments.
Also, we shouldn't be hunting illegals down at schools. What do they do - follow them to their kid's schools and pull out firearms in front of hundreds of kids? Bullshit - that's just dangerous. Follow them for three blocks and arrest them anywhere else other than schools.
Obama deported more illegals than any other president. He was called the "Deporter In Chief".
If Republicans were remotely serious about this, they would dramatically increase funding the size of the Border Patrol and increasing the staff of the Border Patrol. Instead they say "We are sending troops to the border" and they send down 600 troops and they spend three weeks picking up horse poop and other silly support roles.