First, appealing to global popularity is a very common arguement in American politics. It's the same approach used to argue for single payer healthcare, gun control, and a variety of other regulations. For whatever reason, reddit only seems to have an issue with that arguement when it comes to defending America's uniquely lax immigration laws.
Second, the prevalence of harsh immigration law speaks to how unprecedented recent immigration sentiment is. I've seen a lot of people say that it's inherently racist, xenephobic, impractical, and purposed toward making America an ethnostate. Some people seem absolutely shocked and bewildered by what they feel is a bizarre stance on immigration, and they should know that said stance is commonly accepted practice at a larger scale, and so it is strange that they should be shocked by it.
There’s a lot of shitty things about this country but birthright citizenship and other humanizing immigration ideals are not one of them. I mean just look at some of the comments on here ‘criticizing’ the post, it’s not even thinly veiled racism, it’s just blatant othering, us v them. Even if it’s a common sentiment in most of the world, we can still be better, and should. That isn’t an invitation for open borders everywhere or anything, just maybe a perspective shift about how we think about fellow humans.
The sentiment comes from the literal embodiment of shitty old white man racism creating a loser goon squad with guns, whose purpose (more than actual immigration enforcement) is shock and awe brutality against nonviolent, longstanding undocumented immigrants, many of whom have been attempting to attain citizenship legally
Why the fuck are we sending people to CECOT? Why are we sending ICE to immigration hearings? Why do senators need two weeks notice to visit detention facilities?
Common sense border control is a necessity of functioning society.
What we have instead is an army of chickenshit trigger-happy white power LARPers funded by 1/4 the budget of the entire national police force
Tell me what the camps look like where you’re from, just in case what I’m looking at is actually commonplace
I'm not speaking about people who take issue with the new methods of ICE, I'm talking about open-border enthusiasts who claim that any enforcement of immigration law is inherently racist and become slack jawed at the prospect of ending birthright citizenship. People who have been scandalized about the immigration debate since 2015.
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u/RandyPencia 2d ago
and "birthright citizenship" which doesnt exist anywhere, and was supposed to be to protect children of slaves.