| There are good people and bad people. Sometimes bad people do bad things. Like they bring bad stuff across the border, or bring people across the border and do bad things to those people. We want to punish the bad people for doing bad things that we don't like. There are also good people. Good people don't do bad things, they do good things. They do farming and build things, and make things better for other people. They work very hard at these good things. They can get paid for the good things they do, and that's good for them too. The good people outnumber the bad people by a lot. That's what's good about humanity. Sometimes the good people are in the same place as the bad people and want to get away. Other times the good people are in a place where they can't do the good things that they want to do. It would take a long time to move if they didn't do something a little bad in order to get the place where they need to be to do good things. In a lot of cases it wouldn't even be possible to move. So they do the thing that is a little bad, but when we find out we punish them like they are very bad people doing very bad things. We take away their kids, take their things, put them in very bad jails, and then send them back to where they were. They are afraid of being caught. This makes it easy for bad people to hurt them. Bad people can take their money, or do bad stuff to them by threatening to tell on them. They also can't go to anyone for help if they get hurt or sick because of the bad thing they did. This means that these people suffer a lot more than we do. (Suffering is when you hurt for a long time). Being afraid also makes them not get as much when they do good things for other people. Some people think that because they did a bad thing, they should be punished more and that we aren't mean enough to them for the bad thing they did. Other people think that the bad thing wasn't bad at all, and that it was good, and that we are being too mean. There are also people who think that the good people are bad people and that we should build a big huge wall, and that a big huge wall will keep everyone out except for people who we let in specifically. Some people think that a big huge wall would not be helpful and too hard to build. |