You should know that Justin Bieber is in this country completely legally. He has a green card that allows him to work in the USA. For those few who do not know, he is a foreign citizen.
He is also rather fond of breaking the law, just like the undocumented immigrants at which conservatives are so angry. But, there is a major difference.
The laws that Justin Bieber breaks could kill people. Driving Under the Influence is not simply a crime. Just go to the website of Mothers Against Drunk Driving and you can see the agony such a crime can cause. Being a drug abuser is supporting criminal cartels. Just see the photographs from Mexico to see what criminal drug cartels do to people who oppose them.
Meanwhile, the undocumented immigrant breaks the law in order to be able to support his/her family. Most work regular jobs, many working more than one. They live together in untenable conditions in order to be able to save money to send to their families back home. They do many jobs that Americans will not take, even when they are unemployed.
Now, guess which one of the two law-breaking foreigners gets hunted down in immigration raids, jailed for months, and eventually deported? Guess which one gets a slap on the hand and gets to continue to work openly in the USA?
More than that, guess which one gets the open support of Rush Limbaugh?
This only goes to prove that the 1% can do no wrong in the eyes of a political conservative, even if they are foreign citizens. But, if you are poor and law-abiding, except that you snuck into this country, you are treated and vilified by political conservatives as though you were evil incarnate, and the troops are sent in to root you out.
I detect some severe inconsistencies here.
But, Father Ernesto, the rich are DIFFERENT. And being rich, young, white, semi-talented, notorious and foreign beats being poor, older, brown, obscure, and foreign every time if you’re trying to avoid deportation. It’s easier for INS to go after farm workers than celebrities–farm workers won’t be surrounded by hordes of wailing pre-teen girls.
And farm workers don’t have the money to hire armies of lawyers.
More than that, guess which one gets the open support of Rush Limbaugh?
These two *CELEBRITIES* said one to another,
‘*CELEBRITY* unto *CELEBRITY* o’er the world is Brother’…”
— Filk of Chesterton’s “Ballad of the Battle of Gibeon”
Does he have to be charged and found guilty of a felony before his green card is revoked?