• daannii@lemmy.world
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      2 days ago

      They document themselves.

      If they don’t, well. Who cares ?

      Most places won’t hire undocumented. That actually is illegal.

      If they commit crimes they get arrested and deported.

      If they aren’t committing crimes then why do I care if they are here or not?

      They can’t get food stamps or unemployment. They don’t drain any resource.

      Most undocumented people here in the U.S are here for family reasons. Asylum. Or sometimes work related. Not nefarious reasons.

      If they are criminals then they are illegal and police should nab them. Send to prison or deport.

      If we made it easier to self document and allowed to stay, more people would register.

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        People document themselves when registering visa, if they don’t do or stay longer than permitted it is violation, duh. Is it needed an explanation?

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      Immigrant here, asylum specifically.

      You usually document yourself when applying to USCIS for an employment authorization card.

      There are people working without it but that’s usually either to pay for the USCIS application fees or not starving to death while you wait for the card to arrive (took 1 year for me)

      Also even “illegal” immigrants are mostly asylum. You can’t wait in their country for asylum application to process while your government is trying to arrest/kill you.

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        It still a violation of immigration rule no offense. But knowing how muslim countries treating minority the situation is understandable

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          19 hours ago

          Well when the laws don’t work for the people, they are more likely to break them. As you say, it’s understandable.

          The laws and regulations that need fixed.

          I knew this guy I met while helping out at a community garden and they kept having problems with school kids walking through the garden lot. Not intentionally stepping on plants but part of the path they were wearing into the ground did go through the watermelon patch.

          The back of the school basically emptied out to the back of the garden lot. So kids would cut through it to get home.

          This garden guy kept complaining about them. Said they were going to have to pay for a big fence.

          I said. Well these kids have to walk around 3 blocks to not cut through. They aren’t going to do that. And isn’t it kinda rude to force them to? (Based on how worn the foot path was) I said, They’ve been walking through here for years.

          Maybe instead of a fence. Make a path for them. They will walk on a path if it’s efficient. And then you can direct them from walking on the plants and making a dirt path that gets muddy when it rains.

          Nope. Too much work. Fence.

          I still think my idea was better. Make spaces work for people. Make guidelines that work for the people . And then people won’t be breaking them.

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            18 hours ago

            No, I say it’s understandable because lunatics in muslim countries tend to kill minority. How can your analogy relevant in this discussion?

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              17 hours ago

              What? We are talking about undocumented people in the U.S and I gave an example about how restrictions don’t help the problem but we could instead make it work for both parties.
              Did you reply to the wrong comment ?

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                17 hours ago

                Lenient restriction is the one that not working, comparing to stricter one like in North Korea and China, these kind of violation was so rare even next to nothing.