The man's lawyer says he has a family and no criminal history, but he's now listed at the Karnes County Immigration Processing Center, about 50 miles southeast of San Antonio.
Why is the default position assuming this person is a menace enough to spend resources seeking out and removing? The studies I’ve seen say immigrants use fewer resources and provide more, but this narrative gets spread around that they’re just a bunch of leeches that deserve to be punished at great expense.
That’s not justice. That’s blindly following a law because you don’t know how to think or empathize.
That’s not at all what they’re saying. I don’t know how so many people didn’t get this, but what they’re saying is, “Technically, he did break the law, but only at the most bureaucratic level that deserves basically a guy at the DMV shaking their finger sternly at you, and they’ll use this technicality to pump up their figures of how many ‘criminals’ they’ve arrested and send this guy who did nothing wrong to gods’ know where and ruin his life.”
They literally called him a hard-working family man.
Why is the default position assuming this person is a menace enough to spend resources seeking out and removing? The studies I’ve seen say immigrants use fewer resources and provide more, but this narrative gets spread around that they’re just a bunch of leeches that deserve to be punished at great expense.
That’s not justice. That’s blindly following a law because you don’t know how to think or empathize.
That’s not at all what they’re saying. I don’t know how so many people didn’t get this, but what they’re saying is, “Technically, he did break the law, but only at the most bureaucratic level that deserves basically a guy at the DMV shaking their finger sternly at you, and they’ll use this technicality to pump up their figures of how many ‘criminals’ they’ve arrested and send this guy who did nothing wrong to gods’ know where and ruin his life.”
They literally called him a hard-working family man.