• CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social
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    7 days ago

    “Kidnapping people, separating them from their family, locking them in prison and then exiling them from the country? That’s a horrible thing to do! Unless of course they happen to have not done some paperwork correctly and were born on the other side of this line we drew in the dirt, then its just common sense.” /s

  • Endymion_Mallorn@kbin.melroy.org
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    There’s a huge difference between hating an individual, and wanting the rule of law respected, I think. What’s going on now is hatred and destruction, which abuses the name of the law. But saying, “this person is self-evidently in this place illegally, they should be tried and ejected”, is not hateful. You can respect a person while saying they shouldn’t be in a place.

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      wanting the rule of law respected

      As an American, I would be mortified to use the phrase “rule of law” outside of a joke.

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      The problem is that even then it’s such a tiny “infraction,” so victimless, that going out of the way to enforce it is fucking insane. It’s like if we shot all jaywalkers dead on sight. It’s like if we arrested everyone who ever went over the speed limit and kept them in jail for 90 days waiting for a hearing.

      If someone is visibly committing a dangerous crime, and it turns out they should be deported, that’s one thing. Breaking into people’s fucking houses, fucking taking people while they are in the process of going to the courthouse to go through the legal immigration process, dragging people out of fucking cars, none of this is necessary, and moreover, it’s fucking reprehensible.

      “But dey broke da lawwww” a kid who smoked a joint doesn’t deserve the electric chair bro. And they are fucking executing white, born-here American citizens in the streets in broad daylight for NOTHING.

      So in closing, fuck that, fuck all of that.

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    The leading reason to oppose immigration is racism. But people are embarrassed to admit it. Nobody opposes anything because it’s illegal.

    You can force anyone to admit they don’t care about what’s legal by simply asking what if we changed the law?