“What native residents take away from that is not my concern.”

I say this as an immigration attorney. The use of the words “line jumpers” is what contributes to the current status of many in the exploited underclass.

Not every one can apply for a refugee status...

People should stop comparing illegal immigration to enter to someone else’s house without an invitation or skipping the line.

Except “refugee status” does not exist from Mexico and other countries? As in, there’s a path “in theory” but not in practice? In any case I think we have different ideas of what constitutes a “line jumper”, to me it’s not someone who does it out of necessity. So I guess we’ll just disagree.

Thank you! I work with this population every day. And the stories we hear about what they fled and the hardships the endured to get them and their kids out are heartbreaking.

Many of them had to skip the line or die. So go fuck yourself.

While I appreciate the overall point you’re making about the issue at hand, I’m with Sheket on this one. Being “unable” to stand in line and having no line to stand in (the US does not recognize most Central and South American immigrants as refugees and visas are extremely hard to get, my uncle waited for 5 years for…

Seriously, congrats to you for backing up words with action. My brother is a public defender and wow, is it a hard job. But as he puts it, “Hell, at least I can sleep comfortably at night knowing that I’m doing some good in the world.”

Also, “legal immigrant” is the opposite of “illegal immigrant,” another term I abhor. Call yourself a documented immigrant, or perhaps YOU should back where you came from — we have enough native bigots already,

I say this as a legal immigrant with no particular love for line jumpers.

The worst is when people refer to a man taking care of his kids as “babysitting.” No, it’s a man being a fucking parent.

Yeah. Whenever people went on about the total impossibility of deporting all the undocumented people, I just said “They don’t actually want to deport that many people. What they want is to create a terrorized underclass who will work for even less money, never go to the police or authorities for crimes, and basically…

That’s what I don’t understand. Why should there be a parade and fireworks every time a dad does something like change a diaper or “babysit” their kid? It should be expected that the dad takes care of their kid too. My husband and I go thru this all time and it makes things so strained.

no snark, this was really sweet. thank you.

I FEEEEEEEL YOU!!!!!

I’m sorry. That would be demoralizing.

Once a kid reaches a certain age, which varies by kid but I ballpark it to be around 3 or 4, alone time is crucial. At least in my opinion. My gf and I have twins and have tried very hard to make sure they get their own time without meddling parents every day. Otherwise, how is a kid supposed to exercise his or her…

You know what’s great about being a Dad? Everybody KNOWS you’re not perfect and that’s okay. Because... you know... you’re a Dad. Isn’t it funny how shitty stereotypes cause irreparable harm to women and people of color? Yet, benefit the hell out of lazy, white dads?

Historically, in the US, it has always been black women at the forefront of political action and social progress. When said “progress” is achieved for those claiming to be their allies, they drop the sisterfriends. I’m heartened to see black women leading the anti-Trump vanguard but if history is any indicator, white…