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I have sat through CPS court cases and seen parents have their parental rights terminated and everyone in the courtroom has known that the parents were in the country illegally and yet they have still just walked away.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong or if they should have been turned over to ICE and deported but if the court system is not bothered when the "illegal" person is sitting right there in a court then who is bothering??
I'm not saying it's right or wrong or if they should have been turned over to ICE and deported but if the court system is not bothered when the "illegal" person is sitting right there in a court then who is bothering??
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I have sat through CPS court cases and seen parents have their parental rights terminated and everyone in the courtroom has known that the parents were in the country illegally and yet they have still just walked away.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong or if they should have been turned over to ICE and deported but if the court system is not bothered when the "illegal" person is sitting right there in a court then who is bothering??
I'm not saying it's right or wrong or if they should have been turned over to ICE and deported but if the court system is not bothered when the "illegal" person is sitting right there in a court then who is bothering??
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I think it would be rather worrying if we cut out the right for anyone to petition a court by stating that the court would report your immigration status to the federal authorities. In a custody battle for a child, for example, custody should not be automatically assigned to the person who is here legally simply because the other parent is too scared to appear.
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What business does a family court have enforcing federal immigration law? Answer: none at all!
I think it would be rather worrying if we cut out the right for anyone to petition a court by stating that the court would report your immigration status to the federal authorities. In a custody battle for a child, for example, custody should not be automatically assigned to the person who is here legally simply because the other parent is too scared to appear.
I think it would be rather worrying if we cut out the right for anyone to petition a court by stating that the court would report your immigration status to the federal authorities. In a custody battle for a child, for example, custody should not be automatically assigned to the person who is here legally simply because the other parent is too scared to appear.
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They'd not take the work, not because it is beneath them, but because after a few hours minimum wage, they'd lose unemployment and being down on salary as it, that would be a massive massive drop in income when you've got commitments, you'd hang on to the unemployment in that situation.
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Illegals aren't just Mexicans. Would people turn in illegal Brits?
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They'd not take the work, not because it is beneath them, but because after a few hours minimum wage, they'd lose unemployment and being down on salary as it, that would be a massive massive drop in income when you've got commitments, you'd hang on to the unemployment in that situation.
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damn right...if I took a minimum wage job, I'd be down $2hr paying for childcare at the very minimum, probably closer to $7hr down and I'd hit my threshold of losing unemployment completely if I did more than 2 days a week of minimum wage work...and when tax is taken out on top, I'd be even in worse shape.
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