Illegal Immigration
An honest discussion about this topic is almost instantly derailed by misinformation and distraction.
Racism is the most commonly used lie to prevent rational discussion. Any attempt to begin a conversation that is in contrast with the agenda of the average liberal will result in calls of racism. While there may be racists that think the border needs to be enforced, not all people that think the border needs to be enforced are racists. In math, we would say the converse is not necessarily true.
Many of the arguments against enforcing the border draw comparisons to the settlers coming into this continent and starting what would eventually become the USA. Essentially, everybody is an illegal immigrant and we have no right to tell anybody to follow any legal process if they wish to live here.
Sadly, this seems to be the most honest argument that I've heard. It's significantly more honest than "they do jobs white people won't do" (which happens to be a racist statement).
Lets assume for a minute that this is true. Lets say that, specifically the flow of people from Mexico, is identical to European settlers. That would put us in the position of the Native Americans so long ago. Americans would be in a position of watching the "invaders/settlers" move in and not being able to stop them. We would be faced with the consequences of losing our government, language, and culture to the "settlers".
Unlike the Native Americans that inhabited this country before the "settlers", we have the resources and ability to stop the settlers. However, we do not have the political will. We do not have leaders that are willing to obey the law. In fact, we have a president that will sue a state for attempting to protect it's border.
Regardless of the terminology that is in use (illegal, migrant, settler, etc), the fact remains that our government is making an overt choice to allow the steady flow of trespassers a free ride to citizenship. Why is this OK? With non citizens voting, our elections are a joke. Why not just allow China or the UN make all legal decisions in our country?
A secure border is not racist. A secure border is the responsibility of the government. Rounding up all people of a specific nationality/ethnicity and oppressing them because of their race is racist. In the age of misinformation, the opposition is always a "racist". They don't need facts, they just need simple minded people that are afraid of being unjustly called racist.
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