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Self-deportation alone is not going to solve America’s illegal alien problem, but it can help, and even the media’s getting around to reporting on it.
Celeste traveled from Peru to the U.S. two decades ago, then a young woman of 19, and overstayed her tourist visa… So, Celeste has made a tough decision: She will continue cleaning offices and saving money for just a few more months, and return to Peru by year’s end.
About 100 miles southeast, Maria, also an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, said that after 30 years in the Coachella Valley, she, too, plans to return to her home country and try to forge a new life in the western state of Michoacán.
Luz Gallegos, executive director of TODEC Legal Center in the Inland Empire, said her staff members talk “daily” with folks who are considering leaving. “What comes up a lot in the sessions is, ‘Prefiero irme con algo, que irme sin nada,’” Gallegos said. “I’d rather leave with something than leave with nothing.”
But more accurately, many of these people never really left Mexico. They function more like guest workers, which, thanks to California’s pro-illegal alien system, allows them endless welfare benefits.
Elena, an unauthorized Mexican immigrant who has lived in the Inland Empire for nearly two decades, said she and her husband are among those who have decided to self-deport. They will move back to their homeland in the southern state of Chiapas by Christmas… in Chiapas, they have nearly five acres of land, where they hope to build a ranch, raise animals and grow crops.
“Many people have said that maybe I will feel more free there,” she said from the kitchen of her tidy home, “because here you feel chained up. You want to do many things, but you can’t.”
Mexico. Land of the free. If they have five acres of land, it’s likely they’ve been going back and forth for a while. Now they’re going home.
Over to NYC.
A Colombian mother of a ninth grader had planned to move her family out of their Brooklyn migrant shelter at the end of the school year.
That was before she got a menacing email from Customs and Border Patrol last week telling her she had seven days to leave the country.
“A fear enters you,” she said in Spanish. “I’m leaving once and for all with my family, before it gets any uglier here.”
She and her family packed their bags and left Wednesday, intending to make their way to Canada to reunite with family members there.
But the hedge here comes from the anchor babies.
Sitting at her kitchen table in Durham, N.C., a woman who goes by “S.” lets out a deep sigh, recalling the first few days of the second Trump administration.
Both S. and her husband are immigrants without legal status in the U.S., which is why she’s asked NPR to withhold her full name. Their two children are U.S. citizens.
They haven’t reached a decision yet. But they said they started hearing about other Latino parents in their community getting children their U.S. passports — so in case they leave, the kids can later return. S. and her husband decided to do the same.
…a woman named Melina walked by: a Mexican woman, also without legal status in the U.S. — she asked that her last name be withheld. She mentioned she’d gotten her children their passports and is hoping to leave soon.
Pastor Julie Contreras, who created the food bank in Waukegan, said she’s been hearing from so many parishioners considering self-deportation, she’s planning on holding information sessions about how to get your U.S.-born children their passports.
That has to be the next step. Children born to illegal parents cannot be considered legal let alone citizens.
america has been turned into a third world cess pit compliments to the democrats and third world illegals who have drained the public purse for well over 30 yrs. now they will exit stage left with their welfare purse stash and their holiday house intact in their country of origin . meanwhile vets are living on the streets and their rightful funding stolen by the govt. to give to illegals . america may have been great in the distant past but it no longer has that title .
S. and her husband are immigrants without legal status
They are not immigrants.. They are illegal aliens. I’m sick of these new out lets trying to make these lawbreakers into a noble thing.
What a mess, caused by the Democrats.
Caused by altruism.
What would Jesus do? He would love and forgive the illegal alien and welcome him with open arms into the country.
You are your brother’s keeper.
“Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.” – Matthew 25:40
“Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God.” – Luke 6:20
“When you give a luncheon or a dinner, do not invite your friends or your brothers or your relatives or rich neighbors, in case they may invite you in return, and you would be repaid. But when you give a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind. And you will be blessed, because they cannot repay you, for you will be repaid at the resurrection of the righteous.” – Luke 14:12-14
Big government murdered Christ .
Your correct. You should. How many do you have at your house? Dud you sell all to give to our homeless vets who served our country? If you do shouldnt you teach them romans 13?
Tell me, how many illegal aliens do you have living on your property and eating your food? Did they move in and set up shop on their own, and you just forgave them? I certainly hope so, otherwise you aren’t a very good Christian, based on your interpretation of those verses of scripture. Surely you’re not just lecturing others who live somewhere else that are fed up with watching their local resources being plundered, like the people in NYC until a fraction of the problem showed up there.
It is not altruism, but the love of power that has brought us to this point.
You are perhaps most offensive, THX, when you anathematize Christians while also eisegeting their scriptures. Israel was a people bounded by a territory and governed by laws that favored themselves, even while applying to the foreigner and sojourner among them. The rule of law was strong – but not total because existential laws favored Israelites over the gentile unbelievers.
All of the laws of God to us and to Israel governing relations with others mandate compassion for one’s kindred FIRST, but apply also to the stranger / foreigner dwelling or sojourning with them by choice AND PERMISSION. They could be summarily executed or expelled for legal infractions.
We are in this situation because our land, once governed by Christian laws and culture, has been subverted to the kind of radical equality and individualism that produced the French Revolution and is now destroying us. It is the pervasive liberal framework that governs and pervades our institutions and that co-opts both Jews and Christians to maintain “equality” and “freedom” and “rights” for others even while it destroys our own people, land and culture.
Under this system, we cannot enforce Christian laws and customs, but must maintain a “neutral space” for the entertainment of all ideas – NONE of which can vie for supremacy! This rule means only progressive liberalism will have power while it claims “neutrality.” There IS no neutrality.
You are half right, but the part of your thinking that is wrong is deadly to civilization and all that is good and beautiful. Your religiosity keeps you from thinking in sound categories because your mind is shackled to it.
I am curious about how the ‘poor’ can afford to travel so much, pay for their return to their home country, AND pay for passports for their children 🤔
Dont think they are so ‘poor’.. I’m lucky I can afford food.
NGOs that you support by force of the Federalies through taxes, is who is paying for ‘the poor.’ That’s why food is tough to pay for. The government decided the ‘undocumented’ were a better power investment than not confiscating your hard earned money.
“Somehow also your tax dollars at work”.. That’s how.
Jesus’s teaching are about INDIVIDUAL, not government, responsibility.
Tell that to your fellow Christians, tell that to Catholic Charities, Lutheran Services, and all the other Christian charities aiding and abetting the illegals with taxpayer dollars.
Those entities are not religious. They are lobby groups ripping off the taxpayers and church attendees. They are cover frauds. Most of their funding comes from donations — at least from a Catholics vantage point.
So are you standing up for the idea that history repeats itself and there could be new pharisees? 1138’s very uncomplicated history and other fairy tales for children
Bull!! Why is it always your compassion and other people’s money with pious zealots.? Why don’t you house and feed them with you own money and resources and leave the rest of use out of it?
There are some 8+ billion people on the planet. If just half of them found their way to America, religious zealots like you would suggest and expect we the American people to take care of them all. Not a chance.
True, you are to a certain extent your brothers keeper, but Romans 13, says you are to obey the laws of your country, and be an outstanding citizen for the glory of God. Spelled out bluntly, Keep the immigration Law of your Land, and not allow any Tomas, Richardo or Horge to break it or be a party to its breaking.
Thou shall obey the laws of land. To ceasor give to what is Ceasor, To God, give what is Gods!
Read you’re Bible.
how many illegals are you housing? Not many I am sure. Stop telling the rest of us we are scum for not protecting our family and legacy. If you are unwilling to fight to improve your own Country at least have the decency to respect our laws.
One day after Easter to stick the knife in the back, eh 1138? Couldn’t wait a week? Being nailed to a cross and being stabbed by Romans wasn’t bad enough?
Okay I upvoted you because I think the one thing you really can’t stand is being upvoted. You forgot the part about thy shall not steal or look at every issue through an a nall retentive lens.
Yeah but no. Jesus didn’t welcome the Romans or anybody else into Judea.
If you read anything but that skank, Ayn Rand, you’d know that.
FALSE. Read your Bible more carefully. The sojourner is *required to obey all laws of the land they are visiting.*
Jesus forgave. He also said “go and sin no more.”
Those who are here illegally do not get a free pass. That’s not love. That is encouraging sin. What do you say to those who went to the trouble of obeying the law? Did they waste their time and energy?
The USA has VERY generous immigration policies. They are not administered well. But solving that doesn’t mean we should simply ignore the law.
Wow, we haven’t had a round of the THX Altruism Drinking game in a long time. And we are overdue.
I say a round for each of the folks who downvoted you. Kilt Lifters for all.
Lutherans are still here. The Catholics are still here. The Jews are still here. Notably Objectivism is not here.
And you are still here having not learned one thing in the years you have been mindlessly whining about people helping people. 30 downvotes and counting. Well done, moron
And people still vote for the Democrats who promulgate this stuff. Algorithmic Analyst put together 33 upvotes with exactly one sentence. And he didn’t have to smugly quote the bible.
THX, you are a failure. You will always be a failure.
Very humanitarian–to a point. We are at THAT awful point now. When the lifeboat is overcrowded, should everyone drown because of the last one who climbs aboard?
I’m a Christian, but I absolutely not for illegal’s abusing our generosity. The Demoncrat’s have betrayed & exploited us. It’s the biggest money laundering scheme ever seen WITH Catholic & Baptist NGO’s eagerly joined up with the Democrats to perpetrate this scheme. They IGNORED the money laundering, fentanyl deaths, sex trafficking while raking in $$millions of US taxpayers money
“invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, and the blind.” Is that what you DO? on a daily basis? From other countries? If NOT, you are a hyppocrit.
Even Jesus didn’t condone law breaking.
Jesus obeyed the government, he paid the tax as was required. There is a legal way to enter this country, breaking the law to enter should immediately result in removal.
Jesus would not tell them to break the just laws of a country as border laws are not offensive to God!
Religion and Christian behavior are not things we Americans allow to be foisted upon us because “others” deem it good behavior. Our lives follow our personal choices.
Yes. And the problem with illegal aliens isn’t as much about what they do but that they never stop coming. I don’t want to live in “Latin” * America. They don’t even want to live there, or they wouldn’t be coming here. And if those people have anything to do with the Latin Roman Empire, I’m a monkey’s asshole.
And I sure don’t want any Chinese spies and islamopithecines being invited here like they were under the Alzheimer Joe regime.
What strikes me is their total disregard for the law of the land they live in, for the tax payers who are actually supporting them and their complete self centeredness as if they deserve everything just for criminally entering. Maybe it is just human nature.. Or maybe it is the culture they came from. They cheat, lie, take, and see how to get the most out of others and then they play the victim.. It seems so immoral to me.
But then, I am one of the suckers who obeyed laws and payed taxes.
And this is not just about across the southern border. We have illegals entering from China and India, and they make up the majority.
Cat:
“….cheat, lie, take, and see how to get the most out of others…” fits the description of the typical democrat politician and their voters. Their general attitude is: what’s mine is mine and what’s yours is ours..
well said. We will only be a nation of laws if we enforce our laws.
I can’t help but notice how many illegal respondents mentioned how “ugly” it is here. These same people claimed asylum because they “feared for their lives” in the countries they were too lazy or scared to improve. Now that they have saved a stash of cash it’s time to depart “ugly” America. Eff you folks.
Mr Greenfield,
You go out of your way to not call these criminals “illegal aliens”. They are all criminals costing American citizens billions of dollars a year. They have stolen Social Security numbers. They flood our schools and ERs, receiving free education and health care. They bring gangs, terrorists, killer drugs and murderers with them. They are destroying this nation.
Oh yeah – BTW, their kids are not US citizens.
You are part of the problem.
He’s quoting the article from the liberal press.
They also bring a 3rd world mentality where law & order is not taken seriously and regarded as just a suggestion to be ignored and disobeyed until it suits them which is almost never.
In other words they have no respect for the law. If they did they would not be in our country illegally. These are cogent points that the bleeding heart types never seems to get. It’s also demonstrates their duplicity in that they expect Americans to obey and follow the law[s] but refuse to hold illegal aliens (i.e., criminal trespassers) to the same standards.
The UN the CFR The DNC and the rest of the Globalists scoundrels their worst then the Terrorists ever were because their Traitors
They know what they are but have no concerns about it. They have all the money and power and there’s virtually nothing we the peasants of the world can do about and they know it. That’s a hard fact of life that cannot be dismissed or ignored.
Amen Dan. ESP last sentence. NO Such thang. As “”” birthright citizenship.
You don’t need to deport 20 million.
You only need to deport a few thousand, and make sure the news cameras are rolling.
Then watch as the rest deport themselves. Eisenhower did the same thing when he was president.
Maybe Trump has a good point in the idea of giving them some money and a plane ticket out of the country.
cheaper in the long run than supporting these leeches.
Here’s a “small” point that people keep ignoring. Even if you’re born here, unless at least one parent is a U.S. citizen, you are NOT a legal citizen. Just being born here does NOT confer that privilege upon you. This is the crux of the whole matter, and I don’t understand why so many completely ignore it.