"A young undocumented honor student walks into an immigration hearing with her mother - she walks out deported to Guatemala, wearing only the clothes on her back. She doesn't even speak Spanish, not a trace of an accent. What was achieved here? Who was made safer? Who benefited? These are not criminals. They pay taxes. They contribute. Now their jobs are empty, waiting for Americans who will never step forward to take them."
"The fallback excuse is always: They broke the law. But that phrase is weaponized, designed to lump hardworking families together with rapists and drug lords. It is dishonest. It is immoral. Ronald Reagan faced the same dilemma. He chose citizenship, compassion and national strength. Donald Trump chooses cruelty, deception and self-promotion. Deportations like this don't solve problems. They invent them."
An undocumented honor student was deported to Guatemala despite community contributions and lack of criminality, illustrating deportations that separate families, remove taxpaying workers, and leave jobs vacant. Deportation is portrayed as enforcement but often conflates nonviolent immigrants with violent criminals, weaponizing legal language. Historical contrast is drawn between an approach favoring citizenship, compassion, and national strength and one characterized by cruelty, deception, and self-promotion. A Powerball reform proposes staged additional number draws as jackpots exceed $250 million increments to limit obscene individual prizes while keeping the five-number-plus-Powerball win requirement. SB 79 seeks to incentivize market-rate, high-density transit-oriented developments within a half-mile of transit stops.
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