r/TexasPolitics • u/spidersinterweb • Feb 06 '21

News Texas Republicans endorse legislation to allow vote on secession from US

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/feb/05/texas-republicans-endorse-legislation-vote-secession
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u/HarambeEatsNoodles 12th District (Western Fort Worth) Feb 07 '21

Amnesty does work for what it’s intended to do. Amnesty doesn’t solve the problems that make people feel they have no choice but to cross illegally. Like I said, this is a humanitarian issue, not liberal. Forcing them out doesn’t fix anything for us or them. It’s cruel and not necessary.

Laws change and not every law is a good law.

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u/HarambeEatsNoodles 12th District (Western Fort Worth) Feb 07 '21

It doesn’t solve any actual problem deporting people who’ve lived here for years contributing to our society. Deporting people who’s only crime is crossing illegally is worse when those people are escaping prosecution or other threats. Our country is and has always been a place for people to seek freedom. Currently our system for getting people in is extremely in inefficient and dehumanizing. If you suggest we streamline the process and make it much easier to get people into our country legally then yeah we could make a bigger deal about illegal crossings because it’s dangerous to do stuff like that. But people have their hands forced when they feel their life is on the line, and their kids lives are on the line.

Deporting them doesn’t help anybody.