#ice-tactics

#ice-tactics

We are failing our children by blaming adjacent issues, like attending anti-ICE protests, rather than confronting the reality that the youth in our community no longer think twice before pulling a trigger. This is not our youth's fault; this is our fault, our system's fault. Rather than using our tax dollars to invest in the lives of our youth through violence prevention and education, we continue to prioritize punishment.

Let me be emphatic; all undocumented immigrants have committed a crime. They have all broken immigration law. All of the undocumented immigrants I spoke to frankly admitted this. And almost all of them also expressed a real desire for immigration reform. That surprised me-at first. Although, on second thought, they would almost certainly benefit from any rationalized system-which would necessarily recognize their indispensable importance to the U.S. economy.