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Deporting millions of people means less rule of law, not more. There's very significant trade-offs - deportation on that scale can and will intimidate folks int
by ThrustVectoring 10y ago
Deporting millions of people means less rule of law, not more. There's very significant trade-offs - deportation on that scale can and will intimidate folks into not accessing the legal system, which creates a class of ready-made vulnerable victims and un-reported crimes.
- qeternity 10y agoThat's a logical fallacy and doesn't answer his question at all. The same could be argued for illegal taxi drivers as a consequence of cracking down on Uber.
- rebootthesystem 10y agoThis ideology makes laws optional and completely open to interpretation. I don't have a problem with being compassionate. Our immigration mess almost demands it at this point. I am merely pointing out the irony in wanting laws to have consequences while, at the same time, wanting certain laws to have no consequences at all. What's a law then?
- ThrustVectoring 10y agoThe laws are already overlapping enough that you can't simply get perfect enforcement of all of them. It's a question of tradeoffs - do you care more about deporting everyone you can, or about prosecuting rapists that target illegal immigrants. It's not arbitrarily deciding not to enforce a law, it's deciding that a different set of law enforcement priorities is more important.