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Noone says immigration is evil. The whole discourse in US is all around illegal immigration specifically. Lot of people conflates these two things
...so you just haven't been paying any attention at all? We've already dropped the "illegal" part and are targeting legal immigrants and, in some cases, even actual citizens (if they're brown, of course).
That's a bold claim.
You do know they're rounding up and incarcerating/deporting legal immigrants and talking about denaturalizing citizens, right? They left that argument behind about only going after "illegals" after the inauguration. Now we've got Stephen Miller basically recreating internment camps and Laura Loomer talking about feeding 65 million Hispanics to alligators.
Ah yes. That must be why ICE is ambushing people as they attend their immigration court hearings that they are required to attend in order to be here lawfully.
Go back to sucking on paint chips and leave the discourse to people who arent completely brain damaged.
But then the moment someone tries it legally, they get assaulted by ice 5 seconds after being rejected.
Doesn't solve the problem that most people immigrate, illegally or otherwise, due to some desperation. Humans will always move to where they believe their life will be better. Has been like that for the past 10,000 years.
Uhh... I am pretty sure a big portion of people see immigration as something bad in the USA. There is a reason they are deporting so many "non-illegal" immigrants.
they’ve swallowed the racist FlavorAde a long time ago
It's about people who aren't white.
Brexit wants a word.
are you lying to me or to you
Do all y'all just have a text to cut and paste from?
how much does the current federal administration care about the legal/ illegal dichotomy in their blatantly cruel & unnecessary actions against the most vulnerable of our neighbors & associates?
In this thread alone there are two people calling all immigration bad.
The problem is that the right do not consider asylum seeking to be legal even though it is infact legal. So you get the right deport people who are legally in the country while saying they're only deporting illegals. Its a fracturing of reality.