Do you have compassion towards those who cross illegally?

Question

Please read my entire opinion....I do have compassion and also understand why many cross. BUT I also realize how many die trying and how many get hurt by Coyotes ( the animal and the people coyotes). That tears me up inside thinking of the hundreds that die every year. So to me it's more humane to make things more difficult to cross that border so less will try and lose their lives. I can't imagine the heartbreak some mother has when her child goes missing trying to cross. Never hearing what happened or if they're even alive. Or if they were tortured by some criminal who prays on these people. I had sons in a war zone and that was my biggest fear that they'd be captured and tortured. So if we look at the humane side wouldn't MORE enforcement as a deterrent be the most humane thing in the long run?

Does anyone else feel this way or is it simply a matter of money or crime that motivates your opinion on the matter?

Jerry...Yes you seem to know what I mean. Better enforcement = less lives lost.

Answer 1

I have some compassion for them. I have to balance many things when deciding what point of view I take. I tend to be bit cold and side more to the law and order type though. I see the horrors of uncontrolled immigration. Racist use immigrants to feel better of themselves. They actually love for them to come here, because they are easy to mistreat. Where I use to work, Filipino's ask me to help file EEo case against there boss. I found out that they hire Filipinos because there culture tend to believe that bosses can do what ever they want. H1B visa are hold hostage by their visa. If they don't go along with abusive work practices, the employers try to deport them. Illegal immigrants are far more vulnerable. If their bosses find one troublesome, they just cause them to "disapear". Who is going to file a missing person, and the government doesn't know he's missing since he is not here. But my compassion also goes with the employees the illegal immigrants harm. Besides the stress to put on our infrastructure, and that they are often force to take part in the drug trade, they prevent other immirants from coming here , who are more often worse off then the illegal immigrants already here. They decrease pur work condition that we fought so hard to defend. Frankly, in the long run, I doubt illegal immigrants help their home to become a better place. Also I feel sorry for the parents of te illegal immigrants. Some of them are sent back as broken people. People here complain that they are contaminating our culture. I also see the other side and how illegal immigration has contaminated the proud Mexican culture as well. A friend of mine was born in the US, because her parents want to give her a better education. When my friend mention her parents, I could hear how her father was ashamed that she is a single mother and living with a man that she is not married.
And yes, I am concern of illegal immigrants dieing when they cross the border. I was outraged when they found A cuban bow who survive the trip, but her mother died. Some celebrated the mother as a hero, I think she is piggish for risking her son like that. I feel sorry for the children who is trapped by this issue.

Answer 2

They should stay in their own country and change things there verses coming to the US to escape it. Any harm that comes to them is by their own doing and choices that they made.

Illegal is illegal. I recently went to an emergency room where there was a waiting room FULL of illegal aliens. It is well known that they go to the ER because the ER HAS to see them. Then they never pay back the medical bill and then the hospital either goes under or will jack up their prices to cover the high cost of illegal aliens shirking their responsibility again.

Not, only that, but the fact that they REFUSE to assimilate in any way, shape, or form including learning English does not make we want to help them because they are not helping the US citizens via being in the US.

Answer 3

No compassion from here if they want to enter the u.s.a they can go throught the proper channels, as the thousands have before them. Why should they be allowed to enter when others who have done it the right way can invest the time and effort to do so. ultimately we as taxpayers foot the bill with health care and welfare checks to them. Let's take care of the homeless in our country first . I'm tired of these illegals taking advantage of our borders, as some not all are convicts trying to find a place to hide. You can support them yourself ok

Answer 4

You're correct that enforcement is more compassionate. but illegal aliens are still responsible for their own actions.

If they don't want to risk crossing the desert or being victimized by a coyote, then they should obey the law.

If a burglar breaks my window and cuts himself on the glass, am I responsible for his wound? Should I have left my door open for him? Maybe it's my fault for owning something he wanted, right? Of course not. We patch him up, and throw him jail.

By the same token, we should humanely deport illegal aliens, humanely jail repeat offenders, humanely fine and jail employers of illegals, and humanely vote pro-illegal traitors out of office.

Answer 5

Right.I'm 16 and I can't say I'm much of a politically opinionated person.I have a son with an illegal immigrant,which DOESN'T MAKE ME PRO-ILLEGAL.There are mafia-type networks trafficking illegal immigrants,of course. And there probably are certain costs of illegal immigration to American taxpayers.But there must be some benefits as well.Some guest worker program would probably filter out the unskilled people.They come here illegally because they can.There's hardly any legal way for them to enter.
Yes,I do have compassion.Honestly,I am probably 99%motivated and influenced by my private life.

Answer 6

Put a BIG wall up... Take the coyotes out of business. Feeling sorry for someone who is killed trying to enter the country illegally is similar to feeling sorry for a bank robber who is shot on his way out.

Answer 7

I agree with you completely. The number of women that leave and are never heard from again is horrifying. And, of those that arrive that have been sexually abused and passed around for a couple of months is sickening, also.

My motivation in securing the border is the same as yours. I have talked to women whose infants died on the journey, a woman whose sister (15) disappeared after leaving and has never been heard from again. IT is very sad. The family in Mexico has an illusion that she got here, and, is living a luxury life and simply hasn't been able to call because she has been too busy. Reality is- she has never been heard from at all. never arrived at the cousin's home in Texas. It has been a few years. Very sad. I wonder where she is- dead? Or is she in some underground sex ring? EIther way, it is heart breaking. And, the people that come here expect it to be "streets of gold". It breaks my heart.

Answer 8

I have compassion. The US makes it impossible to become a citizen. It's not the immigrants fault that they were born where ever they came from. It should be a FREE world for people to go where they choose. If it wasn't so hard for individuals to get in then maybe some would go through the proper channels. Even some that come here with a visa for school etc they make it impossible to stay. If some of these people below me were in another country and wanted out -believe me-they would have different views.

Answer 9

No, they chose to improve their life by making my country a worse place to live. They are ALL criminals and I have no feeling of compassion for anyone who is stealing from me to improve their own life. Deport them all!

Answer 10

For those who choose to come here illegally I think they deserve whatever happens to them. I am sad for them because Mexico is so screwed up however they should stay there and fight their government instead of coming here and messing up ours. Maybe if more were tortured and killed they'd get it and stay home.