Originally posted by Saxman
Yeah, it's not like legal residents aren't ever killing people in wrecks after running traffic signals.
Where are you going to deport legal residents to? Legal citizens are sent to jail for said acts.
The argument that 'we do it too' is meaningless and redundant. What does it justify?
Removing illegals is the removal of additional risk. That youtube clip claims that 48 000 Americans have been killed by llegal immigrants since 9/11. Since they provide no source for this claim we will assume, for argument's sake, that a maximum of one quarter of this number is true.
That is 12 000 people that would not have died had the illegal immigrants not been able to gain entry to the country in the first place. I don't know about you, mate, but if that was happening in my country I would not be happy about it.
You can't get rid of all the law-breakers and fools but you certainly should get rid of the ones that don't belong there in the first place.
Of course legal citizens commit crimes... they are sent to jail and are just as contemptible as the illegals that do the same thing. The difference between the two is that the illegal immigrant has committed the additional crime of simply being there in the first place.
I don't want to sound like an stunninghunk here but the prevention of needless deaths should be high on any country's agenda.