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can i have someone on the left explain to my why enforcing the border is a bad thing
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Anonymous 2w

Republicans just use “enforcing the border” as a scare word for broad xenophobic policy. Democrats don’t advocate for open borders, they just don’t put people in camps during deportations and don’t kidnap people off the street. If Republicans cared about safe immigration policy they wouldn’t be removing paths to legal immigration and having the only refugees be white South Africans. It’s just racism.

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Anonymous 2w

Major difference between “enforcing the border” and kidnapping people and deporting them to a mega prison in El Salvador while they actively try to complete the process to citizenship you people cry so much about

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Anonymous 2w

Enforcing the border is in fact, not a bad thing

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Anonymous 2w

Strawman. Don’t be an idiot.

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Anonymous 2w

Because they don’t understand how a country works. Their hearts in a good place tho (at least hopefully)

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

What is a bad thing, is where you go beyond that and decide to carry out raids without warrants, without due process, start involving prison camps in foreign countries with vastly different levels of human rights than our own, and plan on building other prison camps with gator moats

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Anonymous replying to -> #1 2w

i think people stopped caring about human rights for migrants a long time ago

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

we can see the same fatigue in europe

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

what if xenophobia isn’t bad and is just the way people think

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

xenophobia = dislike of foreigners residing in your country. is that so terrible

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

Yes that is bad. And it’s not just dislike of foreigners it’s brown foreigners. Latinos share tons in common with Americans historically and culturally. They’re Christians from the Americas with a history of democratic government and a frontier culture. Way more in common than Slovenians like Melania or the Italians who came a century ago. But they’re brown so it’s scary.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 2w

And my ancestors were considered strange politically radial violent foreigners with a different religion of unclear allegiance and a propensity for substance abuse and gang violence. Those were the Irish. They aren’t considered scary now.

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 2w

If you dislike someone just because they used to live in another country, you’re a bad person.

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Anonymous replying to -> #7 2w

low IQ response^^

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