Didn’t say don’t pray for them. Pray for them; don’t legalize them. Help them rescue their own wonderful country, and pray we do not destroy ours.
Tell me what is uninformed.
What is sad is wanting to legalize people who broke the law, no matter the reasons, and disregarding the impact on your own country. There are ways to make things work. Amnesty isn’t one.
Sigh, ok, here goes…
First, no one is talking about “amnesty”. Right wingers keep using that term, but it has a specific definition and this isn’t it. “Amnesty” is a total forgiveness for a criminal act. However, this doesn’t apply to those here without legal status because, firstly, being in the U.S. without status is a civil offense, not a criminal one, and secondly, because the various proposals for legalization call for civil fines for a civil offense, or other appropriate punishments. Thus, a civil fine for civil offense, like if you get caught running a red light and have to pay a fine, which is not amnesty in any sense of the word.
Secondly, your comment implied undocumented immigrants are somehow clogging our prisons, yet the actual statistics show that undocumented immigrants commit crimes FAR less than native citizens do. The vast majority of them that are in a prison are actually stuck there awaiting removal, but have not committed any crime or been convicted of anything: instead they are awaiting the civil immigration removal process while being housed all too often right in with actual dangerous criminals. We keep children in prison facilities awaiting removal for Heaven’s sake, how awful is that to think about!
Thirdly, “illegals” actually, according to the overwhelming weight of actual economics research done on the subject, are a slight net benefit overall to the U.S. economy, or at worst an even break, so they are not “costing” the country anything or otherwise a “burden”. Did you know that undocumented workers actually pay about $7 billion a year to Social Security? In 2010 undocumenteds paid $11.2 billion in taxes to the Federal Government…would that such All-American entities like GE paid such a share, GE paid NO taxes last year! So who is actually contributing to the common good, and who is actually mooching off the rest of the country I wonder…
So yes, please pray for justice and mercy to be shown to such under-valued and steadfastly hard working people.
