Re: “ICE detains Marine Corps veteran’s wife who was still breastfeeding their baby” (June 22, Nation):
The detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement of a lady with two younger kids, married to a U.S. Marine, is one thing most People will discover merciless and unfair. This girl has no felony document and poses no menace. However her detention follows from our president’s immigration views. Let’s rethink these.
Begin with the phrase “unlawful.” Many individuals conflate this with “immoral” or “evil” — all of it simply means “unhealthy.” However “unlawful” merely means “towards the legislation.” The beer I drank final night time would have been unlawful throughout Prohibition. We resolve what’s authorized.
Some crimes categorize an individual (rapist, assassin) whereas others don’t (unlawful parker). Coming into the U.S. with out paperwork is illegitimate, however this illegality will get conflated with evil.
This image is fake. Most individuals right here illegally got here to construct higher lives for his or her households. They make our lives higher, too.
The act of crossing illegally makes you the form of particular person prepared, on your kids’s future, to work harmful jobs, dwell in poor circumstances and threat deportation. Most People acknowledge these as admirable qualities.
Present legislation drives immigrants to interrupt it. Then all of us profit from their work whereas doing little to assist them. That’s what’s actually flawed.
William James Peria, Shoreline
