So, which is it? I'd like to know.
And don't come back at me as if I'm "soft on illegal immigration." I am a long-time advocate for strict enforcement, such as the Arizona and Alabama laws. But illegal immigration -- invasion --- while immoral and unlawful, is neither a capital crime nor an act of war.
I stated exactly what I meant. No “macho-ism” here. They made a choice to enter and violate a sovereign nation and it cost them their lives. A choice to disregard and operate in the fashion that was the wrong way of going about it. Unlike you, I have seen the dramatic effects that illegal entry has caused - not only to the southern and northern part so the US - but the ceaseless lives lost of US CITIZENS in both the US and also in foreign countries that we either did operate in or are still operating in. The 15 yr old driving - be it for drug runners, out on a student permit, joy riding, or with another adult to learn to drive doesn’t mean he couldn’t have gone on down the road and killed a valid citizen(s) - or a bus load of citizens - but the choices made by illegals doesn’t require sorrow from me. What do even know about those that were even killed...what if they were henchmen going back to Mexico to drag in a bunch more sex slaves into the US? Part of a criminal enterprise to spread illegal drugs around the country - money laundering - which since they are not citizens and aren’t paying taxes - is the same thing...Yeah - I found long ago to appreciate life as one that has put it on the line - as I have multiple times in the War on Drugs (LE) and the War on Terrorism - I’ve gone to places where the “indifference of life” is defined daily and where I throw my support is where those illegals threw theirs...my is in doing what is best for my family in a country I swore an oath to protect - and not crying over a bunch of people who made the wrong choice doesn’t make me some “keyboard macho” or some thug with the mentality of “depraved indifference” to human life! Make a choice you little coward - that’s the problem with the current administration and the general US Public - not doing what is right despite the lives that will be ultimately changed. Sit around and complain without doing anything! Either we, as a nation, get it TOGETHER - or more stupid events like this van load of illegals will turn more deadly for those that have the right or earned the right to be in the US. When your life is put on the line - when your family is effected - I’m sure your general respect for life will be tested. I’m not proud of my feelings - but after 4 tours in that little sewer of a sand box we call Iraq - I saw a bunch of lives wasted over boarder crossings - been to Ft Hauchuca AO lately? The Nogales Area - a complete mess down there...I’m for preserving the US - not worrying about illegals who think nothing about you or me - or anyone else but what they can get - that’s their choice - and if I care not - that’s mine....morality and unlawful has a tenacity to spawn greater infliction into societies. Wars usually happen when feel good decisions are trusted forward rather than paying attention to the indicators of what eventually happens! It’s a historical approach that has repeated itself all too often...
Do you know now?