ICE Arrests Domestic Violence Victim at Texas Courthouse
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The Trump immigration policy (which is either actively supported or simple ignored by almost every Republican in Congress), simply treats undocumented immigrants as a lesser kind of person. They happened to be born in another country and came to the US for a better life. However, they will soon be forced to live below the law. They will refuse to ever go to any law enforcement agency out of fear of deportation. If they are a victim of crime or a witness, they simply will not go. This will inevitable lead to people committing more crimes against undocumented people. They will no longer be protected by either the law or law enforcement.
I ask everyone out there to put yourself in their place. You are born into a poor area of Mexico, that is just where you happen to be born (you don't get to choose where you are born). You grow up seeing some terrible things around you, what do you do? Would you consider sneaking into the US to improve your opportunity? If you believe the US is the greatest country in the world, why not (do you believe that?). Now you are here and living a normal life, normal job (just imagine you have the same job, life, income, children that you actually have now). Now imagine that on your way home, you are attacked at raped (this applies whether you are male or female). You get a good look at your attacker and could identify him. What do you do? If you go to the police, they will deport you. You are in this country illegally, which means you have committed a crime, and therefore you are a criminal. Really think about it, what would you do? And if you do nothing, what message are your sending to the rapist (and other potential rapist, or muggers, or whatever). What is the scenario was a little different, but if an undocumented person witnessed you being raped? Would you expect them to come forward and help you (at the risk of them being deported and their family ripped apart)? This is not some thought experiment, it has been happening for decades in the shadows of society. Now it will be public policy. The entire concept of a "Sanctuary City" is to avoid these tragedies. How can anybody be against this? How selfish do you have to be or create a system that puts people is such danger just because you think they are taking your job? Of course unemployment is lower now that at almost anytime in the past 40 years. So that line of thinking is not just immoral, but based on inaccurate assumptions.
I am not religious, but I am utterly confounded that it is the same people who claim to be guided by Christianity that support selfish, cruel, immoral, policies like this. What would Jesus do? Do they talk about this at Church? How is it justified? There is the law of the land, and the law of god, which do they follow and why?
The Trump immigration policy (which is either actively supported or simple ignored by almost every Republican in Congress), simply treats undocumented immigrants as a lesser kind of person. They happened to be born in another country and came to the US for a better life. However, they will soon be forced to live below the law. They will refuse to ever go to any law enforcement agency out of fear of deportation. If they are a victim of crime or a witness, they simply will not go. This will inevitable lead to people committing more crimes against undocumented people. They will no longer be protected by either the law or law enforcement.
I ask everyone out there to put yourself in their place. You are born into a poor area of Mexico, that is just where you happen to be born (you don't get to choose where you are born). You grow up seeing some terrible things around you, what do you do? Would you consider sneaking into the US to improve your opportunity? If you believe the US is the greatest country in the world, why not (do you believe that?). Now you are here and living a normal life, normal job (just imagine you have the same job, life, income, children that you actually have now). Now imagine that on your way home, you are attacked at raped (this applies whether you are male or female). You get a good look at your attacker and could identify him. What do you do? If you go to the police, they will deport you. You are in this country illegally, which means you have committed a crime, and therefore you are a criminal. Really think about it, what would you do? And if you do nothing, what message are your sending to the rapist (and other potential rapist, or muggers, or whatever). What is the scenario was a little different, but if an undocumented person witnessed you being raped? Would you expect them to come forward and help you (at the risk of them being deported and their family ripped apart)? This is not some thought experiment, it has been happening for decades in the shadows of society. Now it will be public policy. The entire concept of a "Sanctuary City" is to avoid these tragedies. How can anybody be against this? How selfish do you have to be or create a system that puts people is such danger just because you think they are taking your job? Of course unemployment is lower now that at almost anytime in the past 40 years. So that line of thinking is not just immoral, but based on inaccurate assumptions.
I am not religious, but I am utterly confounded that it is the same people who claim to be guided by Christianity that support selfish, cruel, immoral, policies like this. What would Jesus do? Do they talk about this at Church? How is it justified? There is the law of the land, and the law of god, which do they follow and why?
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