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[quote=Anonymous]Okay, I'll bite. While I don't "support" illegal immigration I am sympathetic to those who feel they have no other choice and I recognize that they are people who shouldn't be talked about as though they are pests who need to be eliminated. While of course it would be better if everyone took the legal path that legal path to citizenship is more difficult than most can even conceive.

Regardless, here is why I can at least sympathize with people who can't wait for that.

1) I have traveled to a number of the countries they are coming from. There are children dying in those places from starvation and malnutrition. There are small children who have to go out alone to sell goods in the street because literally everyone in the family must work to survive. There are 10 and 12 year old girls forced to work as prostitutes and 10 year old boys who are killed if they refuse to join drug running gangs. So while I don't encourage illegal immigration, I understand that there are very real reasons for it, and if My darling daughter was starving there is nothing short of murder that I wouldn't do to save her. If I am honest with myself I know that my placement (and my daughter's) in this country was a happy accident of birth, and not because I did anything to earn it.

2) I understand that this has been used by Republicans to scare people or make them think that this is why they are struggling economically. Illegal immigrants are largely doing jobs Americans won't take--bussing tables, cleaning hotel rooms, picking fruit, etc. Automation and technological innovation have taken most of the jobs Americans have lost, not immigrants.

3) And finally, I am a Christian and the Bible is very clear, in multiple references, about how we are to treat strangers who come to our land.

So that is why I don't "support" it, but I refuse to treat it as the most important problem we're facing--not by a long shot. [/quote]

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