FOX NEWS, NEW YORK – Workers at a famed New York
bakery, who face a deadline to produce immigration papers, are instead
defying the government in public — at President Donald Trump's Manhattan
home.
The 31 employees of the Tom Cat Bakery will be fired and could be
deported if they cannot prove by April 21 that they're working in the
country legally.
The mostly Spanish-speaking workers and about 100
supporters rallied outside Trump Tower to protest what they called the
Trump administration's "bullying."
The Department of Homeland Security set the deadline for the workers to show their employment documents.
Notes: What a shame. On the one hand, those in power (Democrats and Republicans but mostly Democrats, no doubt) chose to ignore existing immigration law years ago, maybe 30 years ago. Today, those who knew they were here illegally but fully believing they were "safe," working to support their families, paying their income taxes and Social Security deducts (which they will never get), are having to pay a high price.
On the other hand, we have those in power who are now charged with fixing this problem while being fair to those immediately affected AND, those who obeyed existing law, paid their dues, and earned the right to call themselves "citizens" of the United States.
Time for leadership, not politics . . . . . and everyone has an opinion. It is safe to say that no one in D.C., today, are the politicians that created and allowed this problem to fester, at least, in the beginning. But the time to "fix' this problem has come without regard to the blame game.
A wall of some sort, absolutely has to be built. The border must be guarded. Penalties need to be paid by repeat violators. And some sort of policy must be put in place for those who have been in this country for decades, along with their families. Understand that the 11 to 20 million illegals in this country, each have the right to be represented by immigration attorneys, and, that fact, in and of itself, makes "mass deportation" impossible. Complain about the law, if you chose, but that is the law.
I believe that sometime after the 2018 midterms, Congress may begin work on immigration reform that deals with the existing long-term illegal population as well as the inequities inherent in the current path to citizenship, inequities that demand a 15 year process, a time delay that encourages a growing illegal population.
If we "build the wall" and bring the EXISTING immigration system into the 21st century, and we may have a permanent solution to this out of control problem.
