
Originally Posted by
Champ967
I feel like this has been discussed, but here it is once more.
Undocumented border crossing is a misdemeanor. Roughly equivalent to a speeding ticket or shoplifting. (I would offer that petty theft by US citizens siphons off more American productivity than illegal immigrants ever have, but that's just me speculating ...)
And some laws are greater than others. City laws can be negated by a state law. Federal laws can be superseded by the Constitution. And all human law is subservient to the natural law. The right of human beings to move their persons to escape evil or seek a better life comes from none less than their Creator. (We all still agree that the function of human law is protect, not to infringe, God-given rights, yes?)
Imagine you're rushing an injured loved one to the emergency room and you run a stop sign. You therefore committed a crime, and now you're a criminal. Again, I hope we call all agree that the need for immediate medical care in such a scenario is greater than the law to come to a complete stop at an intersection. We can come up with more examples like this, but you get the idea ...
I've posted in the thread above some images of a famous fictional law enforcement officer. Maybe you know the character. In the story, he spent decades hunting a man who had once committed a petty crime. He couldnt see the loving father, devout Christian, or pillar of the community ... only the escaped thief. Javert's compulsion to fulfill the letter of the law, without mercy or compassion, ultimately took his sanity and his life.
That was a long answer to your original question, the premise of which was flawed. Nobody "supports ILLEGAL immigration". Seriously, no one.
The short answer, which I write in the closing minutes of this Easter, is that justice can be mercy too.