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Going Home – Michael Morse
by Michael Morse, contributing writer
I’m not getting all giddy about the illegal immigrant crackdown and deportations because I have been in the homes of many of the people who will be getting deported. These are decent people, struggling to survive.
It’s starting with the easy ones; the rapists, murderers, dealers, thieves and degenerates. Then it will be the blatant abusers of our generosity. They will get sent home and come up with another scheme to survive.
Eventually the people who were exploited by the traffickers, the crooked government officials, the businesses using their sweat to save a buck and the homeowners pinching pennies but still able to pay people to watch their children, clean their homes and mow their lawns will get their turn.
Those people will be sent back too, with their kids, and have nothing – no prospects, no hope and no way out. Until the traffickers, dealers and cartels need more sheep to fill their pens, and new schemes will be utilized, and different countries will be exploited, and different people will get rich on the backs of people doing their best to survive.
And the worst part? I know some of these people. I do not know exactly who they are, but their secret immigration status is about to be exposed. It’s easy to read about “those people” getting deported until it’s one of my people being sent away.
Our elected officials caused this with their bogus compassion. There is nothing compassionate about holding people hostage, funding nonprofits whose very existence depends on the flow of illegal’s need for their services and support and then crushing their spirit once the jig is up. Millions of people on the bottom of the economic pile are caught in a web of greed, and are about to have everything turned upside down.
These are dark days. Necessary, but nothing to celebrate.
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Michael Morse, [email protected], a monthly contributor is a retired Captain with the Providence Fire Department.
Michael Morse spent 23 years as a firefighter/EMT with the Providence Fire Department before retiring in 2013 as Captain, Rescue Co. 5. He is an author of several books, most offering fellow firefighter/EMTs and the general population alike a poignant glimpse into one person’s journey through life, work and hope for the future. He is a Warwick resident.
It’s hard to sort out what Michael Morse is advising, when he rightly acknowledges that many people here without papers have lived in our city for years, working, keeping their heads down and trying to get by. I don’t think compassion is something to be embarrassed about, or that the sudden push for mass deportations has been proved necessary. I’m glad that immigrants do organize non-profits for mutual aid and that our elected officials, for the most part, oppose such measures as making our police agents of ICE, when what we really need is for our police to promote public safety and fight crime. All of us want protection from crime and a legal system that administers justice. But justice isn’t served by wasting our resources on deporting people who are not a threat, frightening people away from reporting crimes and splitting up families. This is a political performance that harms real people.
Mr. Morse calls the violent criminals ‘the easy ones’, but if it was easy we’d have a lot fewer criminals of whatever status on the street. It’s easier to fill a quota with non-violent immigration offenders, especially when businesses like the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility need a quota of bodies in cells to make a profit. When a politician can brag about ‘mass deportations’ the people caught in the net will only be numbers to the rest of us. No time for ‘innocent till proved guilty’.
I wish there was hope for immigration reform that would create a path to citizenship for those who have been living and working here for years, and make it easier for people to apply from their home countries, have their requests managed quickly and asylum claims heard fairly and without delay. I’m not optimistic about that anytime soon. But I hope our state will focus on fighting violent crime and deal with the perpetrators and causes, and not let the current political climate distract us into actions that will make us less safe.
Agree with the sentiment. And for honest people it’s a tough story.
This fiasco was brought to you by ONE man — Joe Biden.
ONE man decided he was going to set border (non-) control and immigration policy.
He could have done differently, and acted sensibly, but he didn’t.
ONE man is not supposed to decide such major things; that is called a dictatorship.
This was a blatant act of lawlessness by an executive who has never shown regard for the law.
This is not how our country is supposed to run; this was a giant screwup of our republic.
There were dark motives, too; and the worst was the Democrat attempt to produce millions of indentured servant voters, to create a monolithic political party to have its own way, all the time.