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Glad we agree on some points. Also your reply does not sound harsh to me but rather like healthy skepticism. > if the US was incredibly restrictive with immigr
by southerntofu 7y ago
Glad we agree on some points. Also your reply does not sound harsh to me but rather like healthy skepticism.
> if the US was incredibly restrictive with immigration
This is the case! Take a look at ICE raids on workplaces/housing. Look at police and fascist militias preventing migrants passing the southern border from getting help (eg. destroying survival necessities such as water buckets left by humanitarian non-profits). Look at the for-profit business of locking up people (the prison industrial complex) making shit-tons of money on migrant retention centers.
I mean if millions of people are demanding now to #AbolishICE, it's precisely because the US has a very harsh policy against immigrants.
> But if this is comparable to ethnic cleansing, then what does that make almost all other countries? Some sort of ultra-nazis?
Did i say the US government was currently doing ethnic cleansing on its own soil? Sorry that was not my intention. There's plenty subtler ways to destroy people's lives than outright genocide.
- deogeo 7y agoI chose the word carefully - the US is definitely, as you say, very cruel with immigration enforcement (due to all the reasons you pointed out), but it is not restrictive, due to the large legal immigration. For example, if they allowed everyone in the world to immigrate, except for 10 guys, but they enforced the border using flamethrowers against those 10 guys, then they would be cruel, but not restrictive. As for implying that you said the US was engaged in anything similar to genocide, that was not my intention either, sorry. The sentiment was more that, if you were to compare the US to Nazi Germany, then almost every other country would compare even closer (on the topic of immigration, at least).