>>Saying that it's insane to demonize someone for breaking a whacky law is a long way from canonization.
>>IT'S INSANE.
Can we just re-establish some context? Are you saying it's INSANE to hold illegal aliens accountable for their illegal status? As opposed to celebrating them, calling them DREAMERS and treating them like martyrs?
Because I'm saying that if society wants them to be citizens then the law should be changed. Sanctuary cities and the like are not the answer, they just normalize partisan tolerance of lawbreaking.
The same is found when drivers discover that 5mph over the speed limit is tolerated. Speeds creep up. Humans do not react well to tolerance of lawbreaking.
What legal and illegal immigrants want is certainty. Something denied to them since Reagan's time by dithering congress.
Now a bulldozer comes along and says he's going to crack it, preferably by a bipartisan solution. If the Dems have any sense, they'll cooperate and negotiate and won't try to betray him like Durbin did last time. Though Trump is wily enough to know the old saying "Durbin me once, shame on you. Durbin me twice, shame on me."
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1