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Because they're revoking legal status from legal immigrants and arresting legal immigrants and its only a matter of time til they deport citizens too

The state defines what an "illegal immigrant" is. Why should I agree with their definition of an illegal immigrant is?

The Nazis were just rounding up illegal Jews. Why was it so bad that they rounded up illegal Jews?

The plantation owners just wanted to own Black people. Black people had no rights, so what's the problem with owning them?

Do not conflate legality with morality.

Every study I've seen shows illegal immigrants to be a net positive to the economy, while at the same being responsible for fewer crimes than papered immigrants or regular citizens. I wonder why people are willing to go through such social pain and stupidity to attack them. I mean, aside from racism. We should be working on smoothing the way to citizenship, or at a minimum, legality. That would help address the exploitation that takes place (as you mentioned in another post). On a tangent, we really need to do something about universal health care, housing, and the shitty, hateful state of wages in the country while we are at it.

We have a myriad of fundamental problems in this country, illegal immigrants are just a distraction that get the low-information voters fired up and ignoring the real problems.

Because the current purge is rooted in racism, not legality. They're deporting American citizens and people who are here legally as well without due process, blatantly violating the constitution which he swore to defend and uphold.

Trump wants to deport anyone he doesn't like, which includes anyone that doesn't like him. Make no mistake, he would deport half the country if he felt he could get away with it. He has no regard for the rule of law and has proven that time and again. What he is doing is tyranny and the real patriots are out there standing up against it.

Alright, I’ll bite.

Because I would much rather ICE spend its resources preventing IMs from entering the country, rather than rounding up IMs who have been living here peacefully for 20+ years.

Because—and I’m willing to debate the utility of this—a significant portion of our agricultural economy depends on IMs who will work below the standard of living legally required for our citizens.

Because the vast majority of IMs are just people seeking asylum from cartels and/or horrible dictatorial governments and are not a threat to the American way of life.

Because IMs by and large do not “steal” jobs from American workers but rather do jobs most Americans would never consider doing. See said issue with our agricultural sector.

Now, let’s hear your reasons for wanting to spend the immense amount of money necessary to find and deport these people. Because I’m sure your arguments are incredibly well thought out.