When people cross the U.S. border illegally, prepare for Law Enforcement to take you away, it's part of the trick of the trade so don't go out and bitch about how bad it is for this to happen to people, think about the people who obeyed the laws, if not, it's like you're shi**ing on them being patient enough to become Naturalized.

Immigration Reform Is All About Families

WASHINGTON -- For President Barack Obama, immigration reform can't come soon enough. His political brand is all about inclusivity and civil rights. Yet he is derided as the "Deporter-in-Chief," thousands of people are languishing in deportation holding cells, and his administration is on the way to setting a record for total number of undocumented residents expelled.
At the current pace, Obama will achieve the dubious milestone of 2 million deportations by next year -- much sooner than President George W. Bush, who tookeight years to reach the 2 million mark.
"Deportations are a key part of the reform issue," said Clarissa Martinez-De-Castro of the National Council of La Raza, a leading immigration policy group, "and the administration's track record is lackluster, to say the least."
The rush of deportations has led to emotional stories of families being ripped apart, undocumented parents being separated from American-born children, young undocumented people sent "home" after being raised with an American dream they cannot legally live, people young and old being held for long periods while their cases crawl through the bureaucracy.
But now there is a chance that their pain can be turned into political progress. The stories of the dreamers and the deported are powerful fuel for the immigration reform bill introduced last week and endorsed in outline by Obama on Tuesday.
It is sad but appropriate that families are at the heart of this new debate, for families were at the heart of the last major revision of immigration law nearly a half-century ago.
In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson and a Democratic Congress, completing work begun in the Kennedy administration, revamped the existing system, which chose immigrants for entry based on their country of origin and favored émigrés from Europe and the British Commonwealth. Instead, family considerations were made central. The idea was to give precedence to the reuniting of husbands and wives, of parents and children, and of other close relatives.
The spirit of family worked well enough until immigrants flooded in, legally and otherwise, from nearby Mexico and Latin America. In many cases, the generosity of the 1965 reform has been abandoned in applying current law to the 11 million undocumented immigrants and their families today.
The pain of dreamers and deported parents is portrayed in a new documentary, "The Dream Is Now," by Academy Award-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim. The film has some powerful backers, among them Laurene Powell Jobs, widow of Apple founder and CEO Steve Jobs. It features stories such as that of Erika Andiola, a scholarship student who organized a social media campaign to keep authorities from deporting her mother and brother.
Obama administration officials explain the rising tide of deportations as a simple matter of budget. The totals -- for both appropriations and deportations -- have risen steadily since the Clinton years, despite cutbacks elsewhere.
"Congress keeps giving us more money, and we have to spend it," said one White House official, who insisted on speaking on background because of the sensitivity of the issue.
But it is widely assumed, especially in the immigration reform community, that the administration's real aim is to establish a tough-cop, enforcement-minded image as a prelude to offering a path to citizenship for millions of undocumented immigrants. Reform advocates see the strategy as a waste of time -- and one that ignores the real heartache that deportations cause.
"They're not scoring a lot of points with opponents of reform, and they never will," said Martinez-De-Castro of La Raza.
The Obama administration has tried to soften the impact by implementing a policy of limited deferrals of deportation for younger immigrants and by ordering officials to put the priority on undocumented immigrants with criminal records.
The administration is "focusing on public safety threats, border security and the integrity of the immigration system," said White House spokesman Clark Stevens. The president and the Department of Homeland Security have made sure, Stevens said, that "removal proceedings are now largely composed of the priorities the administration has set -- convicted criminals, repeat crossers," and others who pose the greatest threat.
That's not what Martinez-De-Castro sees. "They say they want to focus on national security and public safety," she said, "but there are still a lot of people being deported who aren't in either of those categories."
The reform bill crafted by the "gang of eight" senators includes a provision that would allow those who had been deported for non-criminal reasons to reapply for a new legal status called "registered provisional immigrant,” or RPI.
But the real name for that status is -- and should be -- family.