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Originally Posted by MalditoDuende
People fuck up. We are all humans; dont act like you have never gone over the speed limit. I'm not religious or anything, but I do like this quote. " Let he who is without sin cast the first stone"
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Originally Posted by buckminsterfullerene
She tries to commit suicide.... Twice, her alcohol level was 0.09 when the limit was 0.08, they stripped her naked after she tried to commit suicide while in custody, kept her on a charge of fraud because she used a matricula.
The point is, our life is not the best. We are susceptible to crime, we are susceptible to depression, suicide is too common amongst the dreamer community and if someone makes a mistake they get separated from everyone they know and love to a place they don't know? I truly hope she is able to find the help she needs and that they are truly able to help her, I have been shocked by the responses that I am seeing here.
Undocumented youth blaming undocumented youth when it's something much larger than all of us that is to blame. We have been criminalized and victimized for too long.
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That's exactly it. Some of the responses on this board remind me of the sort of thing I would see on an ANTI-immigration reform website. That just shows you how successful Numbers USA and all the rest have been: they have the victims blaming themselves instead of what is an obviously broken system created by far-right, tacitly racist, anti-immigration pressure groups.
I still think my original point stands. If a DUI is not punishable in an extreme way for a citizen, then why should it be for a non-citizen? The reality is that under the law as it currently is, DUI's are not treated as a serious crime but as a smaller deal. In Georgia, for example, you get the same number of points on your license for speeding as for having an open container in the car. Would all of those favoring extreme measures above, also be as adamant to have their papers suddenly revoked and be deported if they were pulled over for speeding after they got them?
Everyone here, if you dig deep enough, could be found guilty of some misdemeanor crime. This is exactly the sort of thing the Republicans love to do--complain about some sort of group that gets by with "amnesty"--in order to further restrict the number of people that would get legalization. Look at how quick everybody has been to jump on the ARMS Act bandwagon when nothing is happening. Or how fast they were willing to dump the over thirty crowd in the last failed vote on DA (hear me, DA USer, we may agree for once?). Better to pull the plank out of your own eye, than to go around bitching about the sliver that you see in your neighbor's.