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> All of those studies of people in Trump Country USA who were shocked, shocked, that the kind man next door who is a good father and a great neighbor and a rea
by jevoten 5y ago
> All of those studies of people in Trump Country USA who were shocked, shocked, that the kind man next door who is a good father and a great neighbor and a real part of the community was dragged away by ICE?
Don't enforce the border, then when the people you allowed to enter against the law predictably establish lives and families, use that as an excuse to entirely ignore immigration and citizenship law. Exploiting compassion to completely annul borders, because you know all you have to do is use sanctuary cities and states to delay deportation long enough so that the people who democratically set limits on who may enter their country, won't have the heart to enforce those limits.
Classic.
> ..because in their mind the exact law being prescribed is just a tool in the chest, an option on the table, which they expect to be wielded fairly and judiciously. Surely no one would do anything so unreasonable as actually enforcing it as written! Not when that would be bad!
There are literally 11 "sanctuary" states, where federal, democratically chosen immigration laws are not enforced [1]. So it's not just "in their mind" that laws get ignored. But I suppose if your starting point is that America belongs to everyone, regardless of what its citizens say, it's easy to get upset at even sporadic border enforcement.
[1] https://www.fairus.org/issue/sanctuary-policies/do-you-live-1-11-sanctuary-states https://www.fairus.org/issue/sanctuary-policies/do-you-live-...