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Why dehumanize other, equal people? This question reads like the words of a sociopath. Why do I empathize with immigrants? Because I know many of them. I know who they are, that they are just like us, that they are just people trying to run away from all the oppression and hopelessness of their home, to find a new start, to find a new beginning. Because my ancestors too were immigrants, coming from Ireland a century and a half ago, running away from all the famine and oppression at home to seek a new life. I empathize with the immigrants because they are not criminals, and they are not bad people. They are simply hopeful, ambitious people looking to start a new life. I empathize with them for the hatred and the xenophobia that they must face, simply because of their ethnicity. I empathize with them because they are just like us.

It would be best if America implemented its existing immigration laws and prosecuted illegals and their employers who violate immigration and employment laws.

Why can't liberals empathize with America being a place where the rule of law matters.

Why does America have to be the only developed nation that doesn't have borders that matter. Every other country does.

Although there is an element of "assuming facts not in evidence" to your query, one might ask you, "Why do you not feel empathy and compassion for the frightened, tired, unaccompanied minor children the RNC's dirty-tricks mercenaries for hire deliberately dumped on our southern borders during an election year to undermine the Obama administration's effective immigration policies (see whitehouse.gov and click on Immigration) that include more deportations of illegal immigrants than any other President in U.S. history.

There is a century-old plaque mounted on the Statue of Liberty in New York which reads, "Give us your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free/The wretched refuse of your teeming shoe. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door" by poet Emma Lazarus (added to the Statue of Liberty in 1903).

Because I'm a Christian and love all of God's creatures. Except for rich people. They have a harder time of getting into Heaven than a camel does of passing through the eye of a needle. That's what they deserve for idolizing material wealth.

Liberals love everything that is illegal like

ILLEGAL Aliens

ILLEGAL Voters

ILLEGAL Strikers

ILLEGAL Drugs

ILLEGAL Union Thugs

You've never known someone who's came from there that's why. And your probably a redneck s**t

because we realize that most of our great (or great, great great) grand parents were immigrants and would likely be illegal by today's standards where you need thousands of dollars to legally immigrate...

That is disgusting that you could say that about a human being. You are selfish and must only care about yourself.

Future liberal voters to keep the freebies coming in.

We tend to feel empathy for everyone.