02-15-2026, 06:52 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-15-2026, 07:29 PM by HereOnThePrimalEdge.)
But among that population, the majority of the criminal charges or convictions are not for violent crimes.
It’s almost as if most of us can understand that if you get a ticket and a fine for driving 10 mph over the speed limit you don’t generally have to be thrown in jail. Or if someone is jailed for a minor offense they might be released until their court date. We’re mostly OK with accepting that there are different levels of punishment for various types of offenses. A person arrested for murder probably stays in jail, because we don’t want him out on the street.
But immigration? How is it that normally reasonable people who perfectly well understand the concept above, have been brainwashed into a one size fits all mentality equating a coffee picker in Kona, with a human trafficker on Oahu?
And if your argument is “they shouldn’t be here” then why does ICE target immigrants who are going through all the legal channels to gain citizenship (it’s a thing!) and grab them while they have appointments, hearings, etc for legal paperwork, legal extension requests? Why do they grab children on the way to school? Don’t we want people (or their parents) who live and work here to be educated, and taught to speak English? Or would that take away opportunities for the brainwashed to get in someone’s face and yell “TALK ENGLISH!”
It’s almost as if most of us can understand that if you get a ticket and a fine for driving 10 mph over the speed limit you don’t generally have to be thrown in jail. Or if someone is jailed for a minor offense they might be released until their court date. We’re mostly OK with accepting that there are different levels of punishment for various types of offenses. A person arrested for murder probably stays in jail, because we don’t want him out on the street.
But immigration? How is it that normally reasonable people who perfectly well understand the concept above, have been brainwashed into a one size fits all mentality equating a coffee picker in Kona, with a human trafficker on Oahu?
And if your argument is “they shouldn’t be here” then why does ICE target immigrants who are going through all the legal channels to gain citizenship (it’s a thing!) and grab them while they have appointments, hearings, etc for legal paperwork, legal extension requests? Why do they grab children on the way to school? Don’t we want people (or their parents) who live and work here to be educated, and taught to speak English? Or would that take away opportunities for the brainwashed to get in someone’s face and yell “TALK ENGLISH!”