This all well and good until you actually meet some of these people. It completely changed my belief system. I was hardnosed about illegals until I started doing intakes at my church social outreach in a Long Island suburb. People are hungry and without warm clothing. Some manage to get rooms or apartments, often without gas or electric. And no bedding. They have papers from Homeland security. It is heartbreaking. I do what I can for each of them because they are my fellow human beings.
My response- Americans are hungry, losing their homes, living in cars (if they have 1), BROKE, unable to afford healthcare, groceries, unable to earn decent wages.
How did the illegals get here? They were funded.
We don't get handouts, neither should they.
Yes, the human condition is tragic.
COMMUNITIES can help either, we cannot help every stranger being paid to break the law and pour over the border. Illegals, not migrants, need to band together and help each other build community in their home country.
Imagine a ship sinks just off the coast. Two lifeboats go out to save survivors.
One captain fills his boat to maximum number and heads back to shore to drop off survivors. He then return to pick up more people, but by the time he get back out they have all drowned.
The second captain takes his lifeboat out, he's so filled with compassion for the poor drowning survivors that he fills the boat beyond capacity, it sinks and all are lost.
Question: Which captain saved the most people?
Moral of the story: We all want to help those in need, but sinking our on lifeboat in the process will save no one.
What about our vets living homeless with an insanely high suicide rate...who's helping them? What about the children in America that are going to bed hungry at night and living in squalor, who's helping them?
There are already plenty of American citizens who need help that aren't getting it. I'm not sure how adding millions of people coming here ILLEGALLY to the pile helps anything.
So the people you are helping left a place where they either had something or already had nothing only to come here, have nothing, and be a burden on our already failed social services programs?
This all well and good until you actually meet some of these people. It completely changed my belief system. I was hardnosed about illegals until I started doing intakes at my church social outreach in a Long Island suburb. People are hungry and without warm clothing. Some manage to get rooms or apartments, often without gas or electric. And no bedding. They have papers from Homeland security. It is heartbreaking. I do what I can for each of them because they are my fellow human beings.
My response- Americans are hungry, losing their homes, living in cars (if they have 1), BROKE, unable to afford healthcare, groceries, unable to earn decent wages.
How did the illegals get here? They were funded.
We don't get handouts, neither should they.
Yes, the human condition is tragic. COMMUNITIES can help either, we cannot help every stranger being paid to break the law and pour over the border. Illegals, not migrants, need to band together and help each other build community in their home country.
Imagine a ship sinks just off the coast. Two lifeboats go out to save survivors.
One captain fills his boat to maximum number and heads back to shore to drop off survivors. He then return to pick up more people, but by the time he get back out they have all drowned.
The second captain takes his lifeboat out, he's so filled with compassion for the poor drowning survivors that he fills the boat beyond capacity, it sinks and all are lost.
Question: Which captain saved the most people?
Moral of the story: We all want to help those in need, but sinking our on lifeboat in the process will save no one.
Noice!
What about our vets living homeless with an insanely high suicide rate...who's helping them? What about the children in America that are going to bed hungry at night and living in squalor, who's helping them?
There are already plenty of American citizens who need help that aren't getting it. I'm not sure how adding millions of people coming here ILLEGALLY to the pile helps anything.
So the people you are helping left a place where they either had something or already had nothing only to come here, have nothing, and be a burden on our already failed social services programs?