I wouldn’t say it’s racist to oppose illegal immigration, but it makes me suspect you might be and also makes me think you have very little empathy.
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I feel like “illegal” immigration as a concept is inherently racist and being upset and anyone for not coming over the “right” way is also racist.
Even if the law bars say only pedodiles from entry? Just hung up on the word anyone here. I’m guessing there are some number of people we can all agree should be kept outside of a given sect of people. Even back in the day there would be exile’s.
Then if we say some number of people should be bared there would be a “right” way.
I’m not saying immigration policy is good now. Far from it.
It really depends on why you oppose them. There is no real answer to that question.
Why do you oppose them?
- The crime they don’t bring?
- Economic losses they don’t cause to citizen workers?
- Economic gains to domestic businesses?
- The contributions to social security & medicare they don’t get back?
- Because they’re not white?
- Because outsiders are convenient scapegoats for politicians to blame & flex power?
It’s important to pin down clear, substantiated reasons.
From The Business of Migrant Detention covering the history of anti-immigration policies & its disparate treatment of white & brown immigrants
ARABLOUEI: OK. If federal government’s spending all this money to detain and then deport people and a lot of times they’re coming back in the country, and it’s not actually achieving anything economically in terms of supporting American workers and it’s actually hurting American companies, why? Like, why are they doing this if there’s no material benefit to the economy or to protecting workers?
NOFIL: To me, it is a core question of sort of who is an American. Immigration detention’s roots are in this moment that is so blatantly racist, that sort of - you know, the Chinese Exclusion Act pulls no punches about what it is doing. It is targeted to a specific group of people. But that is where we get the legal precedents that undergird this entire system today. It is a system that has only really ever, to my opinion, receded. Immigration detention is only really ever rolled back when it is seen as threatening whiteness. And it is a system that has, you know, continually expanded and gained public support by, you know, targeting racialized people, by targeting people who Americans are encouraged to imagine as maybe kind of criminal anyway, right? It is doing political work, and it is doing work that I think is, like, really revealing about how the nation sees itself.
yes
No.
You just don’t want illegal immigrants. Forget skin color for a second, you could still have an illegal white immigrant and still oppose them.
It just happens to be that a majority of immigrants are not white, and that’s the crux of the issue imo
Maybe. Depends. It’s complicated.
No. And I am tired of people assuming I’m racist for not wanting idiots coming over in small boats from france
No human is illegal
being a nazi should be illegal
deport musk
No, race doesn’t have anything to do with it.
If you oppose illegal immigration, though, you should ask yourself why.
If it’s solely that you don’t want people coming over to your nation illegally, then it’s very likely that they aren’t able to because of how complicated and exclusive your nation’s immigration system is.
Their mode of entry into the UK was illegal but any asylum claims they make will be assessed as being potentially valid. I think you were saying the same thing but not sure.
The reason people are particularly pissed off is that Farage and co. have framed the debate as an issue of fairness. Essentially the charge levelled at the irregular migrants is queue jumping, which we don’t look upon fondly in our culture.
no.
however, it is racist to oppose them because they’re not your race.
Usually, yes
Because usually the reason they have to be illegal is racist, and the person complaining about illegal immigration is fine with it.Nothing makes you more racist than having a legal alibi to hide your racism.
This question reeks of asking if keeping slaves when they were “legal” racist? If it’s legal, what’s the big deal?
Yes because this is all land stolen by illegals. Assuming you’re in North America. Canada and United States both literally illegally migrated here. No excuse or logic that would make sense that others shouldnt do the same. The end.
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