Following GPS to the nearest Costco led a Guatemalan woman and her two U.S. born children to the International bridge where they were detained for a week and now face deportation.
Following GPS to the nearest Costco led a Guatemalan woman and her two U.S. born children to the International bridge where they were detained for a week and now face deportation.
there often is no path to legality, and she is the caregiver of her American-born children.
There shouldn’t be a path to legality - that just incentivizes more illegal immigration, because they know they’ll get residency eventually.
To be clear, I think what’s going on in El Salvador is abhorrent, and that at this point ICE is basically the Gestapo, but that doesn’t mean that countries shouldn’t have the right to decide who is and who isn’t allowed across their borders.
If I illegally crossed the border into Canada because I don’t like what Trump is doing, for example, they have every right to kick me out.
I’m a legal immigrant (to the USA), there absolutely should be a legal path to emigrate to any and all countries.
The only difference between me and her is that I could afford not to work for the 7 months between landing in the country and my green card arriving in the mail, as well as the roughly $10k in fees, and I don’t have kids so being apart from my (then fiancee, now) wife for 14 months while the paperwork went through was also not such a big burden.
Having the privilege to endure those hardships does not constitute the entirety of being a good citizen.