Most people I know who live where there are big gang issues want the illegal immigrants in gangs gone. We have to deal with our citizens, why have to deal with bad people who aren’t even our citizens. I’d go as far to say that if they have committed a very violent crime anything short of Citizen is worth considering deportation. 30 years ago when my boyfriend at the time cousin was killed by her boyfriend, whom we knew well, because he had been married to a different cousin, he was legal here, but what we wondered was if he would be deported or jailed here.
We immediately all considered deportation. My exboyfriend was born in the US, but all of his siblings were born in another country, most of his cousins, his parents, aunts and uncles. The killer was from Kuwait, my boyfriend’ family from Ecuador.
Wanting to deport criminals isn’t anti-immigrant in my opinion. However, I do want to say that deporting is not always my choice, because many find their way back, or have no punishment in their home countries.
I think we really need to specifically define these things, or nothing will get solved regarding immigration. If we just keep saying Trump is anti immigrant and throw up our hands, what gets done? It will be the same as the last 20 years, nothing. If we want to protect immigrants who should be here, but can’t get papers, we need to change the policy. It won’t change if we can’t have conversation about it. People, illegal immigrants, have no protections, they have to worry about being deported, it’s awful. Most of them hard working, underpaid, and living in bad conditions. It’s not right.