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2018-06-25 Home Front: Politix

Rep. Barbara Lee accuses Trump administration of 'criminalizing' illegal immigrants

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Posted by Fred 2018-06-25 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views ] Top

#1 Thats what he was elected to do, pilgrim.

Posted by Eohippus Sproing7694 2018-06-25 00:20|| 2018-06-25 00:20|| Front Page Top

#2 When you break into someone else's country, yeah, you're generally treated like a criminal.

Posted by Raj 2018-06-25 00:25|| 2018-06-25 00:25|| Front Page Top

#3 illegal immigrants

il·le·gal

adjective
1. contrary to or forbidden by law, especially criminal law.

synonyms: unlawful, illicit, illegitimate, criminal, felonious

Posted by JHH 2018-06-25 00:27|| 2018-06-25 00:27|| Front Page Top

#4 Then change the law so they're not illegal maybe?

Posted by gorb 2018-06-25 00:36|| 2018-06-25 00:36|| Front Page Top

#5 What is the difference between legal and illegal immigrants?

Serious question.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2018-06-25 00:58|| 2018-06-25 00:58|| Front Page Top

#6 Start calling them foreign invaders, spies and saboteurs. Treat them as such, give them a nice trial, them put them against the wall and shoot them. When Mexico squeals, put a MOAB through the presidential palace bedroom window. That should be sufficient to explain to everyone, play time is over.

Posted by Silentbrick 2018-06-25 01:00|| 2018-06-25 01:00|| Front Page Top

#7 What is the difference between legal and illegal immigrants?

Serious question.

You're shitting us, right?

Posted by Raj 2018-06-25 01:03|| 2018-06-25 01:03|| Front Page Top

#8 'criminalizing' illegal immigrants....

As in legitimizing legitimacy ?

Posted by Besoeker 2018-06-25 02:19|| 2018-06-25 02:19|| Front Page Top

#9 You're shitting us, right?

No I'm not. This is a serious question that most of the protestors apparently cannot answer. I'll like for them to answer this question.

Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2018-06-25 03:03|| 2018-06-25 03:03|| Front Page Top

#10 What is the difference between legal and illegal immigrants?

Legal immigrants are people that begin the process of immigration at U.S. Embassy/Consulate by submitting an application, paying a fee and undergoing a review process.

Illegals Aliens are people that enter the country illegally by crossing the border or enter using a visitor visa and never leave.

Referring to illegal aliens as illegal immigrants is a non starter, these people have NO immigration status whatsoever.

Posted by Betty Hatfield5124 2018-06-25 04:59|| 2018-06-25 04:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Also.

As a matter of correctness. Migration is an Entitlement, not a right.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2018-06-25 05:14|| 2018-06-25 05:14|| Front Page Top

#12 ..just ask Moses.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-06-25 07:10|| 2018-06-25 07:10|| Front Page Top

#13 Yes, Betty. We know the answer. Seeking Cure for Ignorance wants to hear it from Barbara Lee and some of her colleagues. But we never will. Obfuscation is one of the few effective tools they have and they're not about to give it up. Clarity nullifies their position. Can't have that.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-06-25 09:46|| 2018-06-25 09:46|| Front Page Top

#14 I heard something on the news a few days ago, passing through the room, complaining that legal immigration took so long, and cost so much!

Suggesting, to my paranoid mind, that's why it's better to be an illegal alien.

Posted by Bobby 2018-06-25 09:48|| 2018-06-25 09:48|| Front Page Top

#15 Ask them if they have locks on their doors at home

Posted by Frank G 2018-06-25 10:45|| 2018-06-25 10:45|| Front Page Top

#16 Margaret Thatcher had this weird idea that maybe the IRA people that were planting bombs were criminals... Roughly the same people on the Left screamed at that, too.

Posted by magpie 2018-06-25 11:07|| 2018-06-25 11:07|| Front Page Top

#17 The left knows they have minimal support in this debate that's whey they have to conflate illegal and legal and show Obama era photos of kids in cages hoping to dupe the useful idiots who rarely pay attention to retractions.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-06-25 15:57|| 2018-06-25 15:57|| Front Page Top

#18 ^If only they were that sane, RJ.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-06-25 16:37|| 2018-06-25 16:37|| Front Page Top

#19 What is the difference between legal and illegal immigrants?

Illegal Immigrants don't exist. By definition immigrants, which have been granted that status by the government, are legal - and documented. What we have are illegal ALIENS entirely different animal.

If you cross the border illegally or overstay your non-immigrant visa (and some conditional immigrant visas) you are not magically granted immigrant status. You become an illegal alien. In the case where you overstay something like a K1 Fiancee visa (without fulfilling the, in that case, marriage condition) I believe you actually lose your immigrant status and become an illegal alien.

Posted by CrazyFool 2018-06-25 19:30|| 2018-06-25 19:30|| Front Page Top

#20 Illegal immigrants are sick birds from out of the country. Ain't nothin criminal except they don't get free medical coverage.

Posted by Barby Lee 2018-06-25 20:10|| 2018-06-25 20:10|| Front Page Top

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