Are you aware of the high fatality rates there are in the cess pool that is human trafficking and smuggling? Do some research, set up regular bulletin notifications from ICE, Homeland Security, Customs and Border Protection and DEA. Get informed.
Are you aware of the estimated crime that is committed, yet unreported and failed to prosecute against illegal foreign nationals, especially children, because they cannot come in from the shadows for fear of deportation? Do some digging for your locale and surrounding area. Get informed.
Are you aware that the vast majority of conservative politicians, conservative voters, various stages of law enforcement and homeland military are not "evil monsters who want no immigration and want only closed borders"? If you're not, you are not paying close enough attention to direct source information and listening to media that wishes to drown out the facts.
One of the very best GOP debate exchanges was made by Texas Governor Rick Perry up against the determined liberal heart of Diane Sawyer.
He absolutely refused to engage with her repeated baiting and taunting of him to give her a firm answer on exactly "how" he would reform immigration policies.
His point (which clearly won the exchange) was that it was a pointless, fruitless and damaging to all parties conversation until the borders are secured. First, secure the borders. Then reform. It is the only way for humane immigration reform to have a chance.
Think about the concept.
Stop the horrific cost to human life by stopping the human smuggling. Secure the border so that everyone can be accounted for on both sides. Amnesty is not an option, but consideration for individual circumstances is. But first, everyone must come in from the shadows and be accounted for.
How 'humane' is the belief that a porous, highly dangerous to human life border is the best option for illegals?
This news over the past few days that SCOTUS is showing strong favor to upholding Arizona's original immigration law that would allow for law enforcement to prove legal citizenship is one of the most humane efforts toward illegal immigrants to date.
Congratulations to the State of Arizona for staying the course and at least getting to this point. We'll keep our fingers crossed on this end.
JACQUES BILLEAUD
"PHOENIX (AP) — The United States could see an official about-face in the coming months in how it confronts illegal immigration if the Supreme Court follows through on its suggestion that it would let local police enforce the most controversial part of Arizona's immigration law.
Over the last several years, states frustrated with America's porous borders, have rejected the long held notion that Washington is responsible for confronting illegal immigration and have passed a flurry of laws to let local police confront illegal immigration. The Supreme Court is poised in the coming months to let the states know whether they haven't crossed the line.
The justices strongly suggested Wednesday that they are ready to let Arizona enforce the most controversial part of its law, a requirement that police officers check the immigration status of people they suspect are in the country illegally. Such a ruling could codify the type of local enforcement that some local authorities in Arizona have carried out over the last six years and open the door to such enforcement in states with similar laws, such as Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, South Carolina and Utah.
"I think you'll see more involvement by local police in immigration enforcement, an involvement that hadn't previously been seen," Kevin Johnson, law school dean at the University of California-Davis and an expert in immigration law, said of the possibility of Arizona's law being upheld.
The most controversial parts of the Arizona law were put on hold by a federal judge shortly before they were to take effect in late July 2010, but the statute has encouraged other states to take up similar legislation and — combined with other state immigration laws and an ailing economy — played a part in 170,000 illegal immigrants leaving Arizona since 2007....." (Read more? Click title)
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