It feels very wrong. And in the ideal world there wouldn’t be any borders, but I find it hard to put in to words why it’s bad in the here and now.

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borders bad

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people immigrate for different reasons, and it’s possible that that person’s motivation is True Love, so if you deport that you’re standing in the way of True Love and that’s bad

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I love this

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Libs will deny this. Immigration fulfills a fantastic propaganda role for them: why would people flee here unless were a wonderful prosperous freedom-loving country?

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(those deemed “undesirable” enough to get deported anyway) hail from nations outside the imperial core

People underestimate how often the US deports Brits, Britain deports Yanks, etc.

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Not nearly as often as the US deports the cheap labor from South America, that’s for sure.

If they’re here, they aren’t working in the Dole banana mines.

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It’s impractical as immigrants are a net benefit to the country they move to. How bad it is depends on why they’re immigrants with a baseline of it being just downright rude, if they left bad conditions it’s equivalent to causing those conditions for them

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Well first you ask why are they here and why should they have to leave?

Many times they’re here because the conditions of their home countries have been deteriorating because of the countries they are fleeing to (imperialism, regime change, exploitation, resource extraction, terrorism, etc).

Many times they have to leave because it is politically convenient scapegoating, often with the old “shouldn’t we take care of the homeless first” followed by passing antihomeless laws and then blamimg immigrants for it somehow. Other times its to appease racists/xenophobes, or because neolibs think borders are important.

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