a gathering coup?

(not the kids)

Illegal immigration is a misdemeanor. Not just that - it's a civil, rather than criminal misdemeanor. These people aren't "criminals" any more than someone who puts on their blinker too close to the turn. if police departments around hte nation can decide to not bother with shit like jaywalking or public gum-chewing, then the president saying "we have bigger problems we need to focus on" isn't going to hurt a goddamned thing.

"But they should immigrate legally, like my ancestors did!" - ignoring for a minute that unless one traces your ancestry back to the Bering fucking land bridge, your ancestors were one and all either trespassers or the captives of tresspassers, let's take a look at the early years of immigration. This is how it worked.

You came into a port. You met a guy. he gave you a card where you filled out your name and your occupation and what relatives you had on board with you. He then asks you to renounce your former national allegiances, and just like that, you are a US citizen. And honestly, that was ONLY for people coming across the Atlantic. The border with Mexico was completely porous, and you were a citizen of whichever side of that border you were settled on at the time. On the pacific coast, same thing - you step on shore, and for all legal (if not always conventional...) purposes, you were now an American.

Our current system is the remnant of a eugenicist policy that set racial and national quotas in order to maintain the "white character" of hte United States.

So yes. Let's go back to the Ellis Island days. We'll just have a thoroughfare at several locations at the border where we check for contraband, have you fill out a card, and congratulations, you're an American.

I stopped arguing with because she claims Latinos are ruining her neighborhood. Multiple families in homes, trash, people, etc., are bringing down the land values.
I stop talking because I'm not in her shoes.
I want to advocate for immigrants, and do, but I do see her side a bit.

Her argument isn't very strong; trashy people are just trashy people, and they come from everywhere.

5 newfoundland dogs and a doggy door. Things like paper towels/toilet paper, shoes, and sometimes clothes go out that door when we are not watching. We would really bring her neighborhood down.

you won't. Got the dig in, move on. You're a peach!

fuck these cretins