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

[Stonepounder]

39. You can blame whoever you want, but I stand by my original comment.

There has always been a segment of the population that hated 'the other'. We have used immigrants to do our scut work for hundreds of years. And then, periodically, we convince ourselves that they are horrible people and all criminals who climb in through the windows at night to rape our wimmen and steal our goods. Trump governs by appealing to the worst of us. But my point was not the why, but the cold, hard fact that there is no legal recourse for all these millions of folks who just wanted to come here and make a better life for themselves and/or escape the horrendous life they had originally.

And yes, I know Deportee, although I prefer the Joan Baez version. Woody Guthrie was a phenomenal song writer, but only a so-so singer. (IMHO)