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Possibly. There are problems caused by illegal immigration, as well as how America abuses legal immigrants. Just because I live in a place where multiculturalism is seen as a benefit to the community, doesnt mean everyone does.
I really dont think anyone expected how the trump admin is treating immigrants, but most right wing people won't be exposed to any media that clues them in. Thats why we see people only realize after being personally affected.
All that said, when someone changes their mind from a worse position to a better one, we should be cheering them on, not insulting and laughing at them.
There is almost no illegal immigration in the US because immigration is not a criminal offense. Don't get to try to sound serious and then lie about the law. Immigration violations are civil infractions, like parking tickets.
You know I was referring to entering the country without the proper process. Sort of a weak gotcha there.
Nope, none. There are problems caused by authoritarian and heavy-handed immigration law (this is what the H1B and exploited farm workers stuff falls under), but illegal immigration itself? Absolutely not. There's a reason the first two laws restricting immigration to the US were the Page Act and the Chinese Exclusion Act, both targeting East Asians specifically; this shit has always been about racism.
Yeah no, plenty of people did. He literally promised to deport millions of them.
Well, maybe the fact you can't see how other people have different lives and live under different systems, makes it hard for you to see other perspectives.
I'm perfectly willing to see other perspectives when they're not bullshit. It just happens that this particular perspective is bullshit. In the words of many a rightwinger, facts don't care about your feelings. Or mine, or anybody's. If you want more proof, Democrats, which tend to be city dwellers and therefore more likely to interact with immigrants, are overwhelmingly pro-immigration.
Yes, people who are around immigrants and find a social benefit tend to promote immigration, while those who are around immigrants and see a social detriment will be against immigration.
Not sure what point you are making though.
Because you (I suspect intentionally) misread my reply. The people most likely to be around immigrants in the first place overwhelming support immigration.
There's a lot of these
And not many of these.
I don't really think that such a person really learned the lesson. They're only seeking individual exception, not criticizing the policy, let alone reflecting on their other beliefs or the other policies of their leader.
Its a step in the right direction I'd like to think, but of course I'm being hopeful as I won't know what happens.
Don't trust an unscrupulous person just because their self interest briefly aligned with your beliefs or interests.
Personal experience can be very powerful, and I dont believe its less meaningful because they didnt notice until they were affected. We have all had this happen to us to some degree, I'm not going to hold it against someone.
At the very least this will change how they think about immigration in the states when it comes up in conversation.
Again, I don't believe it will, because they've clearly put themselves in a separate category as "the others" who deserve it. Historically, in these situations, people like this will start to blame the other victims "this wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for you". They believe that they've been mistakenly swept up in a good and righteous action against bad people.
Well they can't blame liberals for this one. Where else can they point blame but their own party?
They can victim blame.
They can say "my immigrant is special and isn't one of the bad ones. It is the fault of the bad immigrants that this policy was needed and therefore their fault that I was affected."
They will excuse the incompetence of the law enforcement and officials involved and simply blame illegals? Its possible but thats just doubling down. Very cynical but of course you could be right.
Speculating can only get us so far unfortunately.
Considering the audience on this platform, that hyperbolic statement is erring in the wrong direction. Not only do I bet that a majority of people reading this expected it, but I half expect to see somebody else reply "EVERYBODY expected this, you son of an honorable dame" or something like that.
I do believe that audience would have plenty of genuine "nobody expected this" reactions. Are you a recovering conservative yourself? I grew up in that world. Been there, friend.
I'm not a recovering conservative but I have a lot of compassion and empathy for that group. At a certain point I realized all the anti-conservative talk here was just as bigoted as people claim conservatives are.
I really don't like seeing posts where someone is vulnerable and honest about their life, and the responses on here are hateful and in some cases violent.
I don't understand how the people on here posting don't realize they are part of the problem.