What happened to the compassionate liberals? Apparently they don't want them?
I am starting to wonder why illegal immigrants are enticed by certain laws to come to America (free education, covid relief checks, etc). Could it be that some day they will become citizens, and then vote for the party that gave them favors? That is tantamount to bribery.
Immigration policies of the US have always been to get workers or skills that we don't have. "Give me your tired, your poor" was written on the Statue of Liberty by the artist, and it is not national policy. Project Paperclip brought Nazi scientists into the US (and into the CIA, which resulted in the deaths of many covert agents). Chinese workers were allowed to stay even if they failed to strike gold (gold rush), if they would build railroads.
The Chinese Exclusion Act, 1882, restricted Chinese laborers for 10 years. The fear was that there were more Chinese than Americans, and we could get out voted and our country taken by democratic elections.
Plessy Vs. Ferguson, 1896, upheld separate but equal. Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, 1954 overturned that with "separate is necessarily unequal." As "then attorney" Thurgood Marshall pointed out, the schools didn't provide equal educations.
Some areas of the US are affected greatly by illegal immigration, while others not. In Los Angeles, where immigration is intense, grafitti, vandalism, and theft are skyrocketing. Schools have classrooms of teachers using sign language to communicate to 31 students in 31 languages. They watch a lot of movies and learn very little. California throws money at their problems, with the most money spent on public education and almost the worst test scores in the nation.
Law enforcement in California is also terrible. In the past year, the Orange County Sheriff almost doubled its force. Now, instead of one officer saying "what am I supposed to do about it (crime)?," we get it in stereo. . .two officers saying "what am I supposed to do about it." Homeless shoplifters are too expensive to jail or prosecute, and cannot be fined (they have no money).
Many homeless people like a lifestyle of stealing bicycles from little girls, swapping parts to make them unrecognizable, and then selling them. It is easier than work.
We lump the homeless into one category when we make shelters. So, the pregnant teen is housed with violent rapists. We have to recognize that among the homeless are criminals, and they have to be monitored and separated.
Since everyone has to work for a living, it doesn't seem like a punishment for people to have to work for a living, instead of burglarizing those who are away from home working.
