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Originally Posted by Sandtrap328

First, it was not a surprise. The President said it would be done before the end of the year.

Is the alternative to forcibly round up 11 million people (some with legal citizen children) and deport them - separating the parents from children, since you cannot deport a legally born citizen to a country they were not born in?

Let's show some compassion.

Sandtrap - The illegals who have come here have done so with the knowledge that they would live in the shadows without the benefits of being a U.S. citizen; that was their choice. Those who have come here and overstayed their visa have done so with full knowledge that what they are doing is illegal which leaves them subject to the possibility of the deportation process. Those are decisions the illegals have made and the chances they have decided to take...risking the sunlight on themselves and their famlies.

Why try to round them up and deport them? Why not allow them to live under the conditions they chose for themselves and their family? Why not secure the borders and PREVENT more illegals from gaining access the the U.S. Why not invest additional funding into I.C.E. to provide for processing the illegals currently in custody and resolving their future to deport or stay? Why not allow the existing laws re an immigrant's path to citizenshipto work?

Compassion for illegals is fine - and it is okay if it simply stops at leaving the illegals to the choices they have made. Remember the old saying - Charity begins at home? Have you looked around yourself and beyond your immediate surroundings to know how much charity is needed right here for our own born in the U.S. of A. citizens from infants to elders? Why not show that same compassion to OUR OWN before showing it to illegals? Why not get involved with 'Support Our Soldiers' - the very soldiers who fought for the freedoms that you and the illegals enjoy today [http://projectsosusa.homestead.com/index.html]

Compassion/support for illegals simply drains what precious few resources the American people of the lower and middle economic tiers have for themselves - jobs, incomes, social security, medicare, savings and pensions.