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> Nobody's human rights are being actively violated because they're not allow to immigrate here. Many people’s rights are being violated recently while enforci
by coin 1y ago
> Nobody's human rights are being actively violated because they're not allow to immigrate here.
Many people’s rights are being violated recently while enforcing immigration law
- scoofy 1y agoMy point is about the laws themselves. If they were unjust laws, there is an argument for civil disobedience. They aren’t though, so civil disobedience here is just anti-democratic.
- 4MOAisgoodenuf 1y agowhat is the objective criteria for just or unjust laws?
- simianparrot 1y agoThey’re criminals. Criminals give up some of their rights. That’s how the law is enforceable.
- ivraatiems 1y agoThis is exactly the kind of logic that makes massive abuses of power possible. "Criminals" in this case is an arbitrarily defined category used capriciously by an uncaring and authoritarian government. You could be a "criminal" tomorrow, if you look at the administration wrong.
- simianparrot 1y agoThey broke the law at the time they entered the country illegally. That they weren't held accountable before now is an error, but it's not like the administration changed any laws. They're simply upholding it as should've been the case all along. Your naiveté is what criminals exploit