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.
“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.”
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.”