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Regardless of the severity of the offense, sovereign nations ultimately have the right to decide who is or is not allowed into their countries.

If someone finds you trespassing in their garden, they make you leave. If you’re drunk in Kroger, once again, they make you leave. This is perfectly in keeping with the nature of the crime - if you’re in a place where you’re not allowed to be, including nations, you have to leave.

I fully agree with a legal path to emigrate to any and all countries, but only if done ahead of time and through the proper legal channels. (And it goes without saying that once those channels have been gone through, resident status should not be revoked without serious reason to do so, followed by due process.)

Breaking a country’s laws by entering illegally is already serious evidence against your being a good citizen; plus, regardless of how good a citizen you are, countries have a right to decide which non-citizens are or are not allowed to enter their countries in the first place, based on any and all conditions they alone deem relevant.

If you break in to my house and then ask me for a job, even if you’d be the best worker in the world, I’m still gonna respond with, “Get the hell out of my house”, and I’d be right to do so.

There shouldn’t be a path to legality - that just incentivizes more illegal immigration, because they know they’ll get residency eventually.

To be clear, I think what’s going on in El Salvador is abhorrent, and that at this point ICE is basically the Gestapo, but that doesn’t mean that countries shouldn’t have the right to decide who is and who isn’t allowed across their borders.

If I illegally crossed the border into Canada because I don’t like what Trump is doing, for example, they have every right to kick me out.

From what the article says, it seems like that should read, “Being in the country illegally has Detroit woman facing deportation”.

That might not be the best criterion, since that’s basically all that George Carlin did too.

I wasn’t talking about a trade surplus - I was talking about the huge amount of extra money that we throw away every year on wasteful, nepotistic military contracts with little to no return.

The country absolutely has an enormous surplus, it’s just that we waste it all on military contracts with little to no return.

Honestly, using the country’s surplus to fund a sovereign wealth fund like Norway instead of throwing it into the black hole of the military industrial complex seems like it would be a pretty good idea.

Too bad they’re stealing taxpayer dollars through tariffs to throw into the additional black hole of crypto market manipulation instead.