Originally Posted by
Tenlaar
Regardless even of the arguments about legal immigration and how overwhelmingly impossible it is for most people trying to get out of poverty and horrible conditions that most poor Americans can't even fathom, it's just strikes me as an inhumane stance to take that those innocent children who had no choice in coming here to begin with should be turning 18 and jumping at the chance to break their families apart and get their parents (and potentially other family) sent back to that awful poverty and horrible conditions, most likely never to return (unless it's illegally again) and possibly leaving the young person alone in this country, to secure their own future.
Can you imagine the kind of guilt that could come along with making that decision? Mexico was ranked as the second most murdery country in the world last year, I'm pretty sure. The US has about 2.5 times the population of Mexico, but Mexico had about 70% more homicides. "You didn't make the decision to come here, but now you have to make the decision to trade the lives of your family for your own or GTFO" is making the kids pay for it too, and in a truly awful way.