Love Thy Neighbor … Unless They’re Immigrants?—A Reality Check on Empathy, Law & Lies

I’m Lois Lane Miami, and today I’m ripping the bandage off America’s favorite double standard: “Love thy neighbor” … as long as the neighbor doesn’t need a visa stamp.

I’ve sat in break-rooms with folks who can barely pronounce “hello,” yet they cackle when ICE buses haul other families away. I’ve watched people whose own grandparents sneaked through Ellis Island act brand-new, bragging that their illegality is ancient history—so it somehow doesn’t count.

Here’s the part no meme will tell you:

• Stats over slogans. In Texas—the epicenter of “border panic”—U.S.-born citizens are 2× more likely to be arrested for violent crimes, 2.5× for drug crimes, and 4× for property crimes than undocumented immigrants.  
• A national review shows immigrants—documented and undocumented—commit crimes far less often than native-born citizens, across every category.  
• Even ICE admits fewer than 10 % of people in its own cages have a violent-crime record; most are guilty of nothing but “driving while foreign.”  

So why the collective eye-roll when families are yanked out of schools at 6 a.m.? Because “illegal” is the new magic word—say it, and suddenly empathy is optional. But remember: slavery, wife-beating, and banning women from the polls were once totally legal, too. Legality isn’t morality; it’s paperwork.

Inside this episode:

I Black-and-white thinking, purple Kool-Aid style. I connect the dots between bad laws and bad behavior—and why “just following orders” never ages well.

Human cost, unfiltered. Kids waking to empty houses, workers dumped in towns they’ve never seen, neighbors cheering because they think it’ll never be their problem.

Reality-check questions to ask the next time someone cracks an immigration joke at work. (Spoiler: most of them won’t have answers.)

Boundary scripts for calling out hypocrisy without lighting the office on fire—unless you want to light it, in which case I’ve got matches.

A meditation on discipline & empathy. From lazy entitlement to lost civility, how we became a nation that values Wi-Fi more than decency—and how to reverse the slide.

By the end, you’ll understand why America’s “legal/illegal” obsession is less about safety and more about scapegoats.

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