Why are people so quick to jump to the defense of illegal immigrants?

The law is an ***, imagine not being able to live in the country you were born in, or hate it so much you would rather go to a country you are unwelcome in. Can you not empathise with these people!?

The law is wrong.

What's so hard to understand is why anyone would care more about protecting a bad law than about the country's food supply.

It is a black and white issue. They are essential farm workers. Without them, the U.S. cannot grow and harvest its food, and anyone who can't afford imported food will starve to death.

People are trying to defend them so that they can eat, because if they are arrested, then we won't food to eat.

Taxpayers are already spending a ton of money to find illegal immigrants. Why don't modern Americans understand this? It's almost a catch 22. I should remind everyone that we were the first illegal immigrants on what would eventually become US soil. I think we should give illegals a chance to become legal, which we do, but we should make it easier not harder.

Before there were illegal immigrants, before the existence of nations, there were people. They are still people, regardless of their place of origin. Almost all of them simply want a better life. Yes, find a solution to the problem, but there's no need for hysteria.

Poboy definitely proved you right.

They tell me to jump. I ask how high

Because none of the right-wing's claims about them are accurate, and they make up the bottom rung of the economy and do jobs that you literally can't pay American citizens enough to do. Also because we're smart enough to know that "demonization of the other" is a time honored right-wing ploy for manipulating the populace.

Because most of them are just here to work hard and try to get ahead. Many of them are heavily integrated into American communities and deporting them is often cruel. You can simply look through the news for examples of the cruelty involved in reporting illegal immigrants. Of course, there are the dreamers, many of whom have no memory of their birth country and whose lives would be effectively destroyed by deportation. But you also have examples of people who have lived here decades and been productive members of the community who are deported. Under trumpcare are examples of women seeking restraining orders against abusive husbands being arrested and deported, mothers being torn away from their children to be deported, and even people undergoing my saving medical treatment being arrested and deported. The real question is not why we should side with these people, but why we would insist they get deported. What is the benefit to the United States of deporting them?

Liberals aren't especially fond of obedience to the law. Besides, Liberals NEED the illegal votes of illegal aliens, to even stay close in elections. Maybe, if they stopped aborting their offspring, why in only 18 years Liberals would never lose another election, again. They wouldn't even need to cheat in order to win, either.

I don't get it either.