Posted on 02/14/2014 10:18:35 AM PST by jimbo123
Immigration reform is, at its core, a human issue. Good policy is driven by good data, but we must never lose sight of the fact that behind every statistic there is a person – a son or a daughter, a mother or a father.
Last weekend, as I traveled through South Texas, I met some of these people. The stories they shared with me illustrate the humanity of the immigration debate that all sides must acknowledge.
In Rio Grande City, I met a young woman who came to Texas to escape persecution in El Salvador several years ago. She did so illegally, paying thousands of dollars to be smuggled across the border.
After arriving in Texas, she fell victim to the same man she had entrusted to bring her into the country. He beat her, raped her, and forced her into a life of prostitution. For years she endured this terror and misery, until she summoned the courage to reach out for help.
By the tragic standards of illegal immigration, some would say she’s among the lucky ones. Unlike so many others, she survived the grueling trek through South Texas that has needlessly taken the lives of so many.
For ranchers in Brooks County, some 70 miles north of the border, the sight of illegal border-crossers traversing their land is routine.
In my short time there, I saw many.
Even so, it is often the migrants you don’t see trudging through the brush that offer the most heart wrenching reminder of the dismal state of our immigration system.
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His column was nothing but fluff, hyperbole, and gibberish.
Aside from the lack of enforcement of current law, senator, what exactly is wrong with our immigration system? We aren’t providing enough of a safety valve to the 3rd world? That is not in our interest. That is not what makes us the shining city on the hill. That’s what keeps us from being that shining city.
When are we just going to annex Mexico and get this over with. Then, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, etc... We’ll just be one big happy family then.
“Good policy is driven by good data, but we must never lose sight of the fact that behind every statistic there is a person – a son or a daughter, a mother or a father.”
Senator, every son, daughter, mother or father that you’ve referred to is a criminal, first and foremost.
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