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Extending 'Zero Tolerance' To People Who Help Migrants Along The Border

Here's an idea:

Don't aid and abet criminals. If a fugitive asks you to help them, call 911 and let the authorities deal with the situation.[/QUOT

I assume you are talking about Trump when you refer to criminals. As for me, if someone fleeing threats from drug gangs needs help, I’ll help them. They are not criminals. It’s what Jesus would do. And Moses. And Muhammad. And Harriet Tubman.
 
Nafta has cut a path of destruction through Mexico. Since the agreement went into force in 1994, the country’s annual per capita growth flat-lined to an average of just 1.2 percent -- one of the lowest in the hemisphere. Its real wage has declined and unemployment is up.

As heavily subsidized U.S. corn and other staples poured into Mexico, producer prices dropped and small farmers found themselves unable to make a living. Some two million have been forced to leave their farms since Nafta. At the same time, consumer food prices rose, notably the cost of the omnipresent tortilla.

As a result, 20 million Mexicans live in “food poverty”. Twenty-five percent of the population does not have access to basic food and one-fifth of Mexican children suffer from malnutrition. Transnational industrial corridors in rural areas have contaminated rivers and sickened the population and typically, women bear the heaviest impact.

Not all of Mexico’s problems can be laid at Nafta’s doorstep. But many have a direct causal link. The agreement drastically restructured Mexico’s economy and closed off other development paths by prohibiting protective tariffs, support for strategic sectors and financial controls.

Nafta’s failure in Mexico has a direct impact on the United States. Although it has declined recently, jobless Mexicans migrated to the United States at an unprecedented rate of half a million a year after Nafta.

Workers in both countries lose when companies move, when companies threaten to move as leverage in negotiations, and when nations like Mexico lower labor rights and environmental enforcement to attract investment.

Farmers lose when transnational corporations take over the land they supported their families on for generations. Consumers lose with the imposition of a food production model heavy on chemical use, corporate concentration, genetically modified seed and processed foods. Border communities lose when lower environmental standards for investors affect shared ecosystems.

The increase in people living in poverty feeds organized crime recruitment and the breakdown of communities. Increased border activity facilitates smuggling arms and illegal substances.


Under Nafta, Mexico Suffered, and the United States Felt Its Pain - NYTimes.com

Being poor doesn't give anyone a right to break our laws.
 
Nope, false. Certain forms are a misdemeanor, but by far not all.

Incorrect. If you enter illegally (whether by crossing at a place other than a designated port of entry or misrepresenting your true intent during inspection by an immigration officer), that is a criminal act.

See: 8 USC 1325(a).
 
Incorrect. If you enter illegally (whether by crossing at a place other than a designated port of entry or misrepresenting your true intent during inspection by an immigration officer), that is a criminal act.

See: 8 USC 1325(a).

That is true for that provision only, which was my point. Visa overstays are not criminal, nor are asylum applicants, EVEN IF ASYLUM IS DENIED.
 
That is true for that provision only, which was my point. Visa overstays are not criminal, nor are asylum applicants, EVEN IF ASYLUM IS DENIED.
Except the statement you claimed was false was simply that "illegal entry is a criminal matter."

Overstaying a lawful period of admission is not illegal entry.

And are you claiming that overstaying a period of lawful stay after asylum is denied (and a removal order is then entered) is not criminal (which is wrong), or just that filing an asylum claim that later gets denied is legal (which is so obvious it is not worthy of stating)?
 
Thing is, if MILLIONS were to do it, the govt would be swamped and unable to do anything about it.
In the Fifties and Sixties, Citizens Band radio was a heavily moderated and regulated civilian radio service.
You had to have a license to use it and the FCC practiced fairly strict monitoring in most parts of the country.
I remember seeing the vans and station wagons with the antenna farms and the RDF loops on them with the FCC logo on the doors.
"Uncle Charlie", we called them.

Then the movie "Convoy" hit the theaters and suddenly the CB radio craze was on in full swing. Then Burt Reynolds and that cutie pie Sally Field made it even more popular. Now even the girls thought it was cool.

First they tried getting rid of the 35 dollar license application fee, just mail in your application for free and get your license.
It did no good whatsoever, twenty-seven million people wanted to yell "Breaker One-Nine good buddy"into their microphones and they weren't going to wait for two months for their stupid piece of paper.

The FCC GAVE UP, and eliminated the licensing altogether. They don't even bother sending Uncle Charlie around unless the violator is so bad that a hundred people or more are complaining, and even then it's not likely they are going to invest more than an hour's effort.

People are running around with "foot warmer" linear amplifiers putting out anywhere from 50 to 500 watts and not encountering any problems. The regulated legal output of a CB radio is FOUR WATTS on AM and twelve watts on sideband.

Even the ham radio bands are pretty much unregulated these days. The hams themselves try to do what they can to keep things running smoothly, but go ahead and tune in to 147.435 mHz and tell me how "regulated" that repeater sounds to your virgin ears.
For those of you outside Los Angeles, here's the live stream:

K6MWT 147.4350 MHz Los Angeles Renegade Repeater - Live Audio Feed Web Player

My point is, as long as only a small handful of do gooders are daring to leave water in the desert, the Feds will have a field day.
But if it gets to the point where they're dealing with a hundred folks a day doing the same thing, there's no way they can handle that much civil disobedience effectively.
And God help them if a hundred people start digging wells or putting in airwell water harvesters.

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I find it IRONIC that the Media CNN MOST SPECIFICALLY had no problem with this when Obama said it and Separated Children from the Parents that Entered the Country ILLEGALLY in 2014. But once it happened with Trump then suddenly it is a Moral outrage? CNN this is called A DOUBLE STANDARD!
Bath House Barry allowed thousands of undocumented “children” to flood into the country... after saying repeatedly that He didn’t have the power to circumvent immigration law.

 
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A gallon of water per person and a stay on your side of the border, is completely acceptable. They cross over........hog tie them.
 
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