But they’re here illegally!
While doing everything they can to make it as difficult and expensive as possible yet enjoying the economic benefits of exploited (illegal) labor.
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?
I both love and hate asking this question to anti-immigration chuds.
100% of the time, the first answer is “Well it wouldn’t be legal, we need laws to keep people out.”
And then you go “Okay but what if they DID legalize it, would you be accepting or not?”
And then it’s 45 minutes of arguing with someone about what a “hypothetical” is and what it means to imagine something, because they don’t actually have an answer, the choices are to say they will oppose the system and oppose the government or that they would be fine if the law changed, either way makes them look bad by their own flimsy values, so they will stick to spinning around the definitions of words and what’s “real” or not.
You might enjoy the phrase “Constitutional border protection.” The US had no immigration laws whatsoever for nearly a century, and none are in the Constitution, so it’s fun to push the same button that right-wingers do with the Second Amendment, but for immigration.
I really don’t get our country.
“We found this nation to welcome the world’s masses, anyone seeking freedom and democracy, we will create the jewel of the world everyone will want to be part of!”
“Wait no, we meant like… some of you, sometimes. We’re good now, yeah, there’s tons of space left and land that we ahem own now, but we like it kinda empty so we can film truck commercials in the mountains.”
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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.
wanting the rule of law respected
As an American, I would be mortified to use the phrase “rule of law” outside of a joke.
I don’t believe in borders man
What would happen if there was suddenly no border policy whatsoever in the US? That anyone could come in at any time they like and stay as long as they like.
I would try to find another place to live, because that would lead to chaos.
Good riddance.
Too bad I have this moral obligation to disobey stupid laws.
That’s certainly a choice, and one I’ve made in the past too. But I stand by the point that the law does not demand disrespect.
law does not demand disrespect.
Unjust laws do.
stupid
What does “false consensus” mean?
Any law that criminalizes behavior that does not cause anyone harm is unjust, and we therefore have a moral duty to disobey it. Your insistence that “respecting the rule of law” is not hateful is no different from using “just following orders” as an excuse for immoral actions. You cannot be seriously suggesting that it is respectful to tell a person they don’t belong in this country because they don’t have the proper paperwork. Fuck borders, fuck ICE, CBP, DHS, and fuck the rule of law. I refuse to accept inhumane treatment simply because the law demands it.
yea, the problem is that it’s a shitty, hateful law that is enforced for shitty, hateful reasons
Idk…you could pay me to do it. I’d just be “quiet quitting”.
Based Cozmo frfr
(His creator is not very based tho)
Really? Huh, I hadn’t expected that, and I hadn’t heard. What happened?
Hartman is an evangelical grifter.
Least morally bankrupt Nickelodeon creator
Wanda Sykes put it best:
"If someone broke into my house… and vacuumed?
*shrug* same time next week?"
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Do what you will with that information. I’m blocking them.
Companies hire them illegally and nobody goes after them! Why aren’t we enforcing the law for them!? Until you are willing to go out into the fields and pick crops for poverty wages, or advance legislation to enable them to do it legally, STFU about illegal immigration…
But they’re here illegally? Sounds like it’s time to legalize immigration, then.
FTFY:
Depends on how they’re seeking it. Plenty of people seek a better life through hurting others.
“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
Hell even if you did all the paperwork correctly, as an asylum seeker you would have a small window of 5 years where.
- If you leave the US your process is cancelled.
- If you don’t show up to the 3 random court calls in time your process is cancelled.
- Court takes place in the USA.
- You are not a legal citizen in the USA until you finish all the courts.
Additionally.
- You aren’t allowed to have a job until you pay a fee and wait 6-12 months for the EAD.
- You still pay taxes and can’t vote.
And if you do show up on time, ICE might just arrest you at the court appearance and sell you into slavery!
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We got way bigger problems to tackle in this world than people living here “illegally” just going about their life. Even if they were the biggest issue, ICE harassing people in the streets isn’t the solution.
Want to know what being “illegal” constitutes as? It’s a civil misdemeanor. That’s it. It’s a low offense. But the system is made so you either get ground to a pulp to get in or sneak in then deal with the system afterwards.
I can oppose illegal migration/support going through proper channels while opposing military action.
The leading reason for hiring illegally is to exploit people in an undesirable position. In my country it’s the leading reason legally as well.
A huge factor in my change from my conservative upbringing was when I escaped the family cult compound and got my first job working in a warehouse with a lot of illegal hires. I learned spanish, I had my lunch sabotaged with chili peppers, I got in insulation-foam swordfights with guys my age who were here in the US working 12 hours a day to support their families and start new lives.
I made friends, I learned spanish, I laughed and cried with my fellow humans from far away places.
My boss was a right-wing narcissist who enjoyed torturing these folks with withheld pay and criminal working conditions, and would sometimes call immigration services himself as punishment. I remember coming to work and people I knew were suddenly gone.
edit: the final straw was watching innocent people die in a war the US started for made-up reasons. (This one was Iraq, the second one.) Not just the civilians that were getting blown to pieces by ooh-rah US power while FOX news cheered on, but also I had friends who went to that war and came back in bags, or couldn’t deal with the things they saw and ended their own lives. The lack of compassion from the right was outright evil. This isn’t the first dance we’ve had with evil in the US. I’ve been falling further and further to the left ever since.
