Anonymous mother_russia 4w

Ultimately I think how we decide “punishment” should be less about how they got in and more about the reason they came here and how long they have been here. If this is someone who has been residing in the USA for a year or two and has a history of crime? Yeah that’s fair to deport. If this is someone who has been here for 5+ years and no notable crimes (or if they are in need of asylum regardless of how long they have been here)? No deportation.

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Anonymous #3 4w

Politics as a rule is about cheating / exploiting gray areas to get elected. The system is beyond rigged to allow this to happen. Again, laws are restrictions used by the powerful to control the powerless. The powerful can decide to operate according to those restrictions if they want, but they don’t. Foucault had all this written out like a century ago

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Anonymous #5 3w

What about drinking and driving? That’s basically as common

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Anonymous #5 3w

Yeah so one’s a personal mistake, the other’s often about survival. People cross borders to work, flee violence, or feed their families, not to party.

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Mexico is “perfectly fine”?? Migrants face cartel violence, kidnappings, and discrimination like please be serious

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They’re fleeing violence, not looking for handouts. Dangerous crossings aren’t a choice, they’re forced to by the lack of safe, legal options.

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Anonymous OP 3w

The issue isn’t people wanting a better life. It’s them hurting the people in the country they move to. It’s simple facts: immigrants commit more violent crime, they are a massive economic burden, they lower wages and raising housing costs.

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Anonymous OP 3w

By definition they are looking for handouts by coming here. They are moving to a country where they will be an economic burden and are not welcomed. They are not staying and helping their country because if they were a valuable asset they would be doing so.

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Anonymous #3 3w

Yes and I hate drunk drivers about as much as I hate illegal immigrants.

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Anonymous #5 3w

They contribute by working and paying taxes and commit less crime than citizens, your comments are clear rage-baiting.

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The focus on Latin America here is telling: this is about brown people, not danger or legality. Yikes.

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Self-identification as white is irrelevant. Most undocumented immigrants are from latin american, and yet research shows they contribute and commit fewer crimes than citizens.

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So illegal entry only matters when the people aren’t white? Okay.

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You focus on “illegal entry,” but many Latin American migrants are Indigenous descended, more native to the americas than the settlers who stole the land.

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I’m fully Native, and many Latin Americans have Indigenous roots. Saying it doesn’t exist is false.

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DUH lmao those Indigenous roots comingled with colonizers, that’s literally how ancestry works.

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Indigenous ancestry doesn’t grant rights, but colonizers acted freely and now migrants are punished….irony much?

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Even if an American would be deported elsewhere, colonizers broke every law here and stole everything from OUR land. Migrants fleeing danger aren’t the same.

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