By Howie Katz

Immigrants take the U.S. oath of citizenship during a naturalization ceremony
The other day a friend asked me why immigrants have not become U.S. citizens if they've been in this country for 25 years.
The
question arose because our lunatic Homeland Security Secretary Kristi
Noem wants to deport 80,000 Hondurans and Nicaraguans who have been in
this country for a quarter of a century.
Those people are not here
illegally. They were granted Temporary Protected Status to live and
work in the U.S. after monster Hurricane Mitch devastated Central
America in October 1998. They worked hard at an honest living to establish homes and raise their families in American communities.
Because of their temporary status they are not eligible to become U.S. Citizens.
Noem
is better known as ICE Barbie because she likes to participate with ICE
and Border Patrol agents while armed with a machine gun as they arrest
illegal immigrants. She has determined that conditions have improved
enough for the Hondurans and Nicaraguans to return to their homeland. If she deprives them of their temporary status, they will immediately become illegal immigrants.
Illegal
immigrants who have been in this country for 10, 20, 30 years or more
cannot become U.S. citizens because they are here illegally. It doesn't
matter what kind of lives they have established for themselves in their
communities.
As for the Hondurans and Nicaraguans, it makes no sense whatsoever to deport them after they have been in this country legally as productive members of American communities for a quarter of a century.
And
it doesn't make all that much sense either to deport illegal immigrants
who have been in this country for over 20 years if during that time
they have become productive members of society.
President
Trump says that illegal immigrants take jobs away from American
citizens. That's a big crock of shit. They fill low-paying jobs that
most Americans don't want and refuse to take.
And
Noem is a damn liar. The lunatic runs an ad on TV in which she invites
illegal immigrants to voluntarily return to their homelands, and tells
them that if they do, they may be able to legally return to this
country. She knows damn well that once they have returned to their
homeland, their chance of being admitted back into this country is no
better than that of winning the lottery.
I
am all in favor of deporting each and every criminal that is in this
country illegally. And I strongly favor deporting the mote than 10
million immigrants that entered this country illegally during the time
of the Biden-Harris administration.
But
our members of Congress should pass legislation that will allow those
illegal immigrants that have been in this country for many years to
become U.S. citizens. I don't think the Constitution prohibits them from
doing that.