I have close, hard-working, truly decent friends who are about to be deported.

[Stonepounder]

24. The real problem is that 'legally' they have no recourse.

Much as I hate and despise what Trump is doing, these poor people have no 'legal' recourse. We have gone for years and years with a wink and a nod because so many undocumenteds help drive our economy. The vast majority of them are hard working, good, decent, folk who came her to build better lives or escape horiffic situations in their native country. But there were damn few legal avenues for them to actually get a green card or citizenship. They worked hard, paid their taxes, and were respected members of their community.

But no President had the nerve to try and change the laws and give them an actual path to legality. And then we get Trump. And as furious as we are with his noxious lack of any feelings for anyone but Trump, there is absolutely nothing that we, or the deportees can do, because the 'law' is clear. If you don't have papers showing you are in the country legally, you are subject to deportation, regardless of how long you have lived in this country.

I hate it!