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680 Undocumented Immigrants

Less than a week after someone killed Hispanics in a mass shooting spree in El Paso, using the “invasion” rhetoric, 680 undocumented immigrants were arrested at two food processing plants in the same city.
Many, if not all, of the children of these undocumented immigrants were born in the US, making the, US citizens. They don’t have any other family here in many of those cases.
Many went to school that morning, not knowing that they were going to say goodbye to their parents for at least a very long time.
These children will now be placed into the foster care system (guess whose family owns a foster care agency.... yup DOE Secretary DeVos).
When things like this happen, we have to ask, is this what’s best for everyone?
Yes, these parents made the choice to enter the country illegally. Yes, they should have known that there was a possibility that was going to happen. Yes, Obama deported millions of undocumented immigrants, too.
Were these undocumented immigrants contributing to society? Yes.
Will the owners of these food processing plants be punished? Not likely.
Do members of Congress hire undocumented workers? Yes. Both parties.
Does the President have a history of hiring undocumented workers at his properties? Yes.
Are most undocumented immigrants illegally coming over the border! No! Most undocumented immigrants overstay their visas. You don’t hear about them being deported, though. (Yes, some are, you just don’t hear about it).
What should happen, then? If they are no criminals, we should seek to give them a path to citizenship. If they do not become citizens after seven years after we give them the chance, then, yes, we should deport them.
What happened yesterday was horrible. They were working, not committing crimes. The children have no idea when they will see their parents again. I don’t know how many children are involved.
Yes, we can blame the parents for coming here illegally, but we also have to ask why they came here in the first place. In many cases it’s because they were fleeing a horrible situation in their country. In many of those cases, failed US intervention into those countries it what caused the horrible situations. If that’s the case, don’t we have a responsibility to take care of these people fleeing the situation? I say yes.
Let’s fix this system by asking our representatives to put in place a path to citizenship for these people.
Now, is it possible, they were trafficked? Yes. It’s possible. If so, this brings me back to the question about why the owners and managers were not arrested.
We really need to start looking at things from every angle. Yes, I’ve been guilty of this. I’m trying to do better.
In the meantime, let’s start the conversation about a path to citizenship. These are people, who want to be here, and whose children were born here.

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