Oppression by the Oppressed

The Kurd, the oppressor of Kurdistan

It has always been intriguing to me when a person of a certain minority group, be it race or ethnicity, etc, is intolerant of another group. It's mind-boggling, actually! How could one possibly be oppressive and intolerant to another group when she/he knows exactly how it feels to be on the receiving end? To me, it makes zero sense. 

The Kurds have suffered so much at the hands of, well, everyone. They understand how it feels to be judged by simply being you. What sense does it make that they would be intolerant of the LGBT community? 

I know that every society/group has the in-group and the out-group. SOMEONE has to be the out-group, period. That's just how we are wired. But why not focus that out-group energy to ones who deserve it, like the limitless oppressors of Kurds? 

Rest in peace, Ahmet Yildiz. 

Mexico's Danger & US Immigration Laws

Dangerous path to legal status for some immigrants - CNN

Let's talk about this. The gist of the article is this: a girl was brought into the US illegally when she was 7 years old. When she turned 18, she got married and had a son. This somehow did not make her eligible to become a US citizen, so through her attempts to become a legal resident, she had to move back to Mexico to file an appeal. Her husband (a US citizen who does not speak Spanish) moved down there with her to keep his family together and support her. The very dangerous city they were basically pushed into has numerous, numerous deaths happening all the time. Her husband was shot 80 times and is now dead.

Why is the danger of modern-day Mexico not considered when looking at cases like these. US immigration laws are not the same thing for everyone, and a case-by-case basis should be the way this is all handled. First of all, her husband was a born-US-citizen. Why was this not simple for her to become a resident at least, though him? Also, why did she had to file an appeal in the most dangerous city and not in her ACTUAL home, the US? She came when she was 7 years old and had NO CHOICE in the decision. Children should be grandfathered in as residents because they did not choose to come to a country illegally. 

A US CITIZEN died due to the horrible immigration laws and through the "punishment" the US was attempting to give the woman because she had lived here illegally (through no fault of her own). Thoughts?