US-raised immigrants try to return across border

[Zimbow]

Nearly three dozen migrants marched across the U.S.-Mexico border without papers Monday, the latest group of a younger generation brought to the U.S. illegally as children that seeks to confront head-on immigration policies they consider unjust.

Wearing a colorful array of graduation-style caps and gowns, 34 young people who spent long stretches of their childhoods in U.S. cities like Phoenix and Boston chanted "undocumented and unafraid" as they crossed the Rio Grande into Texas. Customs officials separated them from regular pedestrian traffic and the rest of their entourage before beginning lengthy interviews.

The risks borne by their parents' generation involved dangerous journeys through darkness across desert and river. The teenagers and 20-somethings who crossed Monday face what could be weeks in detention and possible deportation as part of what could be a growing form of public protest.

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[duane1969]

immigration policies they consider unjust

I don't understand what is so freakin' unjust about expecting people to declare themselves and seek permission before entering a foreign country. Try an illegal border crossing in Germany, Russia, China, North or South Korea, Spain, Turkey, Iran, Pakistan, Israel, Egypt or any of dozens of other countries and, if they don't kill you, when you get out of prison let me know how unjust America is for simply sending them back home.

[tpeichel]

Racist

[shrewsbury]

Racist

really? you realize nationality and race are two separate things?

[tpeichel]

really? you realize nationality and race are two separate things?

I thought that was the standard response when any person of obvious privilege says something negative about a person of color? Was that an incorrect use? I spent a lot of time studying at the MSNBC Education Camps and I think I got it right.

[duane1969]

really? you realize nationality and race are two separate things?

LOL he was being facetious. I believe he was attempting a "first in" ahead of the in-house liberals who will undoubtedly resort to calling me a racists because I have the horrible concept that Federal law should be enforced.

[Wickabee]

We're talking about kids who came here, probably without choice because they're kids. Lived here, grew up here and consider this home. Not just "illegal immigrants".

The only difference between your kids and these kids is how their parents brought them here.

[duane1969]

We're talking about kids who came here, probably without choice because they're kids. Lived here, grew up here and consider this home. Not just "illegal immigrants".

The only difference between your kids and these kids is how their parents brought them here.

I couldn't agree with you more. Some parents brought their kids here legally, some broke the law.

[Wickabee]

I couldn't agree with you more. Some parents brought their kids here legally, some broke the law.

Exactly. And that has nothing to do with the kids. I noticed you didn't bold "without choice". That was a major part of my point as well.

[duane1969]

Exactly. And that has nothing to do with the kids. I noticed you didn't bold "without choice". That was a major part of my point as well.

Just because they are brought here without it being their choice doesn't suddenly change the law. Feeling and emotion are not relevant. While I sympathize with their predicament, it doesn't mean they have a right to be here.

If I am flying a plane across the world and crash land in Russia I do not suddenly have the right to live in Russia just because circumstances out of my control placed me there. I am still a US resident and they will still send me home.