No, there are many reasons people want deportations, but mainly people don't think others should get the benefits of being part of a country while flaunting its rules.

In short: "if you want to join our group, you should like our group and add to our group".

Stories like these are what turned people away:

- New York giving free debit cards to migrants to buy their ethnic food because they don't like free American food.

- Free or subsidized housing for migrants.

- Migrants protesting with Mexican flags.

Hm, I’m not saying it is good for America, but it seems to me that there are plausible senses of “good for America” for which it is plausible that illegal immigration is “good for America” in those senses.

Now, I generally dislike laws being broken. If there’s a situation where breaking a law is the right thing to do, then typically that indicates some problem (perhaps with the law, perhaps with something else).

So, I would hope that if illegal immigration is or were acting as a good thing right now, that there is or would be a better long-term solution for whatever situation than “a long term pattern of illegal immigration”.

Oh, I somehow misinterpreted “In no way is” as “There is no way that”. Oops.

The definition of illegal immigration changes to suit those in power, not those fleeing wars.

Nope. It's coded in our laws. It is a legal term.

Ask JD Vance, who repeatedly said that people legally in this country are illegal immigrants - and those screaming the loudest about illegal immigration walk stridently behind his banner.

I highly doubt he said that, you may want to provide a direct quote and source if you are going to throw that out there.

Illegal alien is a legal term and conflating legal and illegal immigration is disingenuous to the conversation.

You should probably just... google it? https://www.npr.org/2024/09/18/g-s1-23667/vance-haiti-migran...

This was widely reported at the time, thanks for playing.

Just as I suspected, spin.

They were specifically talking about Haitians and the TPS status.

He's saying they had no right to do that under the law.

It's the same mess they got us into with DACA.

So you have illegal aliens, protected under these very fragile and most likely unconstitutional EOs, when it's really not their authority.

I partly agree with your original statement "changes to suit those in power". Yes, that is the problem, when Democrats are in power.

It is the authority of CONGRESS. Vance is respecting that authority and saying he's ignoring the blatant disregard of it during the Biden admin.

I'm all for adjusting our immigration laws. But things like TPS and DACA just cause more problems.

Until then, enforce the current laws on the books.

Those other programs are revoked just as easily as they were added, because that's not how you do it.

Implying democrats use of executive power is the problem in the current situation is laughable at best and genuinely bizarre given the current administration's actions across so many avenues.