On Thursday, March 22, 2018, 5:40:34 PM PDT, juan <juan.g71@gmail.com>
   wrote:
   On Thu, 22 Mar 2018 19:41:41 -0400
   Marina Brown <[1]catskillmarina@gmail.com> wrote:
   > Sorry - i thought that was you were saying.

       It is quite clear what Jim was saying. It's kinda dumb to quote
       him again, but here it goes. Of course one can look at the 1
       day old whole message which is a typical anti-immigration
       right-wing rant.
       "When I suggest that illegal re-entry is a 'victimless crime',
       that does not mean that there are not other crimes which
       illegal re-entry employs (such as people-smuggling) and
       further, crimes that it enables:  Any crime subsequently
       committed by a person who is illegally present in America.
        Kate Steinle's case in San Francisco is an excellent example
       of this.   These crimes are ENABLED because the illegal alien
       is in America.  If he is out of America, he might still commit
       crimes, but they would be crimes that some other government
       would have to deal with.
       Also, keep in mind that the U.S. government doesn't need to
       actually convict these people of some crime, in order to expel
       them.  Put simply, if the government had actually been
       enforcing immigration law for the last 30+ years, there might
       easily be a half-million illegals in America, rather that what
       I suspect to be, 20 million.  (the figures bandied commonly
       about, 11-12 million are nonsense.)
       So, if ICE actually did its job, much of the crime associated
       with illegal aliens simply wouldn't occur. "
       * 'illegal' re-entry 'enables' crimes.
       * person who is 'illegally' present in America
       * crimes are ENABLED because the 'illegal' alien is in
         America
       * government doesn't need to convict...people...in order to
         expel them.
       "if the government had actually been
       enforcing immigration law for the last 30+ years, there might
       easily be a half-million illegals in America, rather that what
       I suspect to be, 20 million"
       that ^^^^^ sounds like a clear 'complaint' doesnt it. Notice
       also the unfounded assertion, typical of propaganda, about the
       numbers, inflated to 20 millions.
       And the punch line, if "ICE actually did its job" those dirty
       foreign 'criminals' wouldn't commit the 'crimes' they allegedly
       commit in AMERIKKKA.
   [end of quote]
   I suppose I should have been anal, and said, "if ICE actually did the
   job it claims to be its own..."
                           Jim Bell

References

   1. mailto:catskillmarina@gmail.com