CONLEY COMMENTARY (WSAU) Monday was ‘a day without immigrants,’ a day that immigrants were supposed to no show up at work. “Essential not deportable” was the chant of the day.
But, notice the switch-a-roo that’s going on here.
Organizers of the protest are lumping legal immigrants and illegal immigrants together. A legal immigrant has no fear of deportation. If they qualify for a permanent resident visa they can stay in the country indefinitely. A green card gives them the right to work. They can get a drivers license. They can live a normal, orderly life in the United States. Many will go on to become naturalized American citizens.
It is those who are in the country illegally who have to fear deportation. As they should. They should not be in the country. They, or their parents, have broken the law to get here.
Protest organizers say these people are doing jobs that Americans won’t do, for pay that Amercicans won’t accept. But if their purpose is to earn money to support themselves and their families, a strike makes no sense. They also know that illegals making demands rubs many people the wrong way. And they do have demands: drivers licenses, in-state tuition rates, free school lunch, and they want the Biden administration to make temporary protected status permanent.
And those in the country illegally have little fear of being deported. Last year the Biden Administration deported only 72,000 people out of an estimated 11-million illegals in the country.
The people who should be making demands are U.S. taxpayers who have grown tired of footing the bill for people who shouldn’t be here.
Chris Conley
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