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Originally posted by Night Star
The point here is that any death caused by an illegal could have been avoided. If you lost a child or husband or wife or parent or brother or sister or anyone you love because of someone who shouldn't have been here in the first place, how would you feel? Numbers wouldn't matter, your deep grief would matter. The injustice would matter.
Losing a loved one would hurt no matter what, but knowing that your loved one could still be alive if it wasn't for the illegal being here is even worse.
Originally posted by Jameela
reply to post by Night Star
If you wanted to 'stand up' for the families, and if you wanted to 'stand' against illegal immigration, perhaps a better way than misinforming people on websites would be to spend your time writing letters to congressmen and the leaders in government and address your grievances with the government for not enforcing existing laws concerning the deportation of immigrants who are found in this country illegally.
if you wanted to do something that helps the families then perhaps send some money to help them financially in their time of loss, or do some petitioning in your community seeking signatures in order that you have more than only your voice when you write to your leaders.
But to misinform people on websites is not doing one thing to stand up for anyone. It is only a way to spread lies and hate against a group of people, most of whom wish you no harm, but only to seek the same American Dream your family had when they immigrated to the United States.
Originally posted by links234
reply to post by Night Star
Many of them don't do any of those things. Many of them simply do a job and send the money they make to some other country. We're talking a couple hundred dollars a month. There are claims of 20 million illegal aliens in this country, if you're arguing against tens of thousands you're arguing that all of them should be deported because of the actions of less than 0.2% of them if we take the previous estimate of 30,000 deaths, the numbers get even smaller when you consider that's over a period of 10 years, less than 0.02%.
That's a loaded question. The death of a loved one always hurts. Would it hurt any less if they were murdered by someone with a work permit, green card or US passport?