sj_zero on Nostr: I mean, the story looks pretty cut and dry... Person is in the country on an expired ...
I mean, the story looks pretty cut and dry...
Person is in the country on an expired visa, they don't have a new Visa for 5 years, so eventually she gets picked up for not having a Visa.
Really, the exact same thing could have happened under any president. It is a major risk of walking around without doing the right things.
If you had been driving your car without insurance or a license for 5 years, and then the police found you and you got in lots of trouble for driving with a license or insurance, are you going to blame whoever your president or Governor is at the time, or are you going to accept the fact that you were driving around with a license?
I'm sure she's a nice girl, but actions have consequences.
Only under the postmodern framework would there be rules that you just completely ignore and think it's justified.
On a pre epistemological basis, you feel the stress of knowing that you're breaking the rules. Of course, the whole story that's also based on a couple of other I'm gut reactions such as "that's a pretty girl" and "what if it was your newlywed wife?"
On a pre-modern basis, it is just expected that you're going to follow the rules, because truth comes from the rulemakers. There is actually a direct premodern parallel to this, and that is in the word villain. You see, the word villain didn't always mean generic bad guy. It referred to the "people of the land" under feudalism who escaped and moved to a village. In England at least, if you manage to stay in the village for a certain period of time then you would be released from being a person of the land. Although you can empathize with people who are tied to the land under feudalism, there's a reason why the word villain means what it means today.
My understanding of the system might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure being married to a US citizen actually further privileges her in terms of making it easier to do the right thing and get a Visa.
You can make an argument in the postmodern framework to say that the rules were really difficult to follow so you didn't follow them, but the reality is once your Visa has expired it's on you to either get it renewed immediately or leave the country that you are no longer entitled to be in.
And even through a postmodern lens, somebody who comes to America on an education Visa isn't someone with no power. Most people in the west can't afford an American education, so if you come in to have an American education in Wisconsin, you're probably someone of some means, and thus are going to have less excuses for not following the rules.
I will give a little bit of grace to the fact that her visa expired during the covid-19 pandemic, since the entire world got screwed up around that time. Covid did eventually end, and in the same way that I eventually had to go and get a passport in spite of the fact that I couldn't during covid, eventually it becomes someone's duty who is still in the country to either get the documentation in order or leave.
I have to give credit to the man for accepting that while the laws have negatively impacted him here, they do have a good reason to exist and they still apply to him.
Person is in the country on an expired visa, they don't have a new Visa for 5 years, so eventually she gets picked up for not having a Visa.
Really, the exact same thing could have happened under any president. It is a major risk of walking around without doing the right things.
If you had been driving your car without insurance or a license for 5 years, and then the police found you and you got in lots of trouble for driving with a license or insurance, are you going to blame whoever your president or Governor is at the time, or are you going to accept the fact that you were driving around with a license?
I'm sure she's a nice girl, but actions have consequences.
Only under the postmodern framework would there be rules that you just completely ignore and think it's justified.
On a pre epistemological basis, you feel the stress of knowing that you're breaking the rules. Of course, the whole story that's also based on a couple of other I'm gut reactions such as "that's a pretty girl" and "what if it was your newlywed wife?"
On a pre-modern basis, it is just expected that you're going to follow the rules, because truth comes from the rulemakers. There is actually a direct premodern parallel to this, and that is in the word villain. You see, the word villain didn't always mean generic bad guy. It referred to the "people of the land" under feudalism who escaped and moved to a village. In England at least, if you manage to stay in the village for a certain period of time then you would be released from being a person of the land. Although you can empathize with people who are tied to the land under feudalism, there's a reason why the word villain means what it means today.
My understanding of the system might be wrong, but I'm pretty sure being married to a US citizen actually further privileges her in terms of making it easier to do the right thing and get a Visa.
You can make an argument in the postmodern framework to say that the rules were really difficult to follow so you didn't follow them, but the reality is once your Visa has expired it's on you to either get it renewed immediately or leave the country that you are no longer entitled to be in.
And even through a postmodern lens, somebody who comes to America on an education Visa isn't someone with no power. Most people in the west can't afford an American education, so if you come in to have an American education in Wisconsin, you're probably someone of some means, and thus are going to have less excuses for not following the rules.
I will give a little bit of grace to the fact that her visa expired during the covid-19 pandemic, since the entire world got screwed up around that time. Covid did eventually end, and in the same way that I eventually had to go and get a passport in spite of the fact that I couldn't during covid, eventually it becomes someone's duty who is still in the country to either get the documentation in order or leave.
I have to give credit to the man for accepting that while the laws have negatively impacted him here, they do have a good reason to exist and they still apply to him.