Supreme Court Deadlocks on Obama Immigration Plan. It Remains Blocked.

Sgt Tom Cunnally - My parents were immigrants, my wife is an immigrant who escaped from communist Cuba at age 14 and worked to help pay for her parents to leave that country later. I know many immigrants who risked their lives to get here legally. I know many Spanish speaking current illegal immigrants and many hard-working Spanish speaking legal immigrants. Where I live MS-13 and some of the other hard-core Spanish speaking gangs occupy areas.
In this area, young people are killed every day - sometimes it is violence and other times it is drug overdoses - accidental or deliberate.
The deportation process has failed in the past with violent thugs coming back to kill again. Last year a young high school student was killed two blocks from our house after he escaped from El Salvador and was hunted down here at a school bus stop.
I hope that most of those deported as serious offenders will never survive long enough to come back.
If any less serious offenders [entering illegally is their only offense] are willing to go back through the legal immigration process in their own country l hope they will be successful and wait their turn.

LTC Stephen F. - People who escape Cuba have an easy path through a special law just from them, people who escape cartel violence in Mexico or Gang violence in El Salvador have to go back, wait A FULL DECADE, and then can rejoin their family.

LTC (Join to see) - Perhaps people who leave Cuba now have the benefit of law. In the 1960s they didn't. My wife's dad spent time in a concentration camp where he was supposed to be reeducated since he had the temerity to allow one of the cows that he used to own before Castro took over to be slaughtered now it was government property. After he got out they developed a way to get my future wife off the island by having her fly to Mexico ostensibly to meet her aunt and uncle. She was warned that if she turned back to look at her parents she would not be allowed to leave so she looked straight ahead at 14 year old and walked across the tarmac to the plane.
There are still some Cuban relatives. They must be careful what they say on the phone or in letters which are still monitored.

LTC Stephen F. - Yes, Cuban refugees deserve our help. As do those who flee violence in other countries.

We can make them pay fines, give them limited status, whatever, forcing ten year family separation is simply inhumane and unAmerican.

Funny, th GOP is supposed to be the family values Christian party, but ripping parents away from their kids isn't very Christian, is it? It's also in violation of the spirit of our nation's immigration law, the Immigration and Nationality Act opens with the words "To Promote Family Unity". THAT is who we should strive to be.