Obviously, the Law must be obeyed. However, in absence of specific qualifications of the Law or where new circumstances arise, what are we to do? We must attempt to stay true to the "Spirit of the Law."Aye Capn wrote:...On illegal entry, though, there is no ambiguity: illegal entrants are illegal aliens, at least until they are either deported or have some administrative adjustment made to their status.
If there is a large group of werewolves prowling around "legal" entry points or the area is currently being sprayed by black helicopters with some unidentifiable, and obviously terribly mutagenic, virus or the Fifth-Circle of Hell has cracked open right beneath the carefully planed legal entry-points... What then?
What if a person who is seeking "asylum" which they claim, believably so, is based upon reasons that are listed in our own Laws as requiring special consideration, yet they have understandably, because of the werewolf menace, have chosen to enter the country at an illegal entry point? What if they didn't get the pamphlet that showed them were they needed to go? What if we did not act to prevent werewolves from interfering in our own legal system?
The point is that the spirit of the law is important and it's that premise that is seen as being ignored by the current administration. That's what the issue is. It's not that these people must be admitted just because they showed up, it's because it appears that the administration is not obeying the spirit of the Law and appears to be simply manipulating it in order to achieve a very hardline political agenda that some of its political supporters with more extreme social views would seem to approve of.
Nobody thinks the border should be a sieve. A nation that can not maintain sovereignty over its own region is not a "State." So, border-security is a viable concern. But, it appears that people who are innocent of our internal political arguments are being used, or abused, as a result of them and many people believe that is not fair or just.
There are still children that haven't been reunited with their families. 1 Is that the sort of country we really want to be? Do those families, no matter if they're illegal aliens or not, deserve that sort of treatment? Should we be known as a society of child-abductors because the fall-out from internal political battles has chosen them as a tool to further a particularly repulsive political agenda that does not see them as being more than that?