Multiple cities reporting that ICE raids have begun.

I'm an immigrant & human rights lawyer. I wrote this on how to handle ICE, the actions each of us can take to protect our immigrant neighbors, & debunking anti-immigrant hate.

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https://www.qasimrashid.com/p/trumps-mass-anti-immigrant-raids

Trump's Mass Anti-Immigrant Raids to Begin

Here are action items to protect your immigrant neighbors, answers to common FAQs, and insights to debunk anti-immigrant propaganda

Let's Address This with Qasim Rashid
@QasimRashid I'm curious. As an immigration lawyer, do you believe that immigration should never be illegal, or that some situations should not be allowed? Not looking for a fight, just the opinions of someone who deals with this all the time. Thanks!

@generalhavok @QasimRashid I don’t think it’s as simple as just focusing on whether an immigrant is here with or without the correct documentation. Many natural citizens would find the process of immigration to be mind-bogglingly difficult, even with legal aid.

Someone who has put down roots, especially if they have kids or dependents, should not be deported. They’re paying taxes and this is their home, and the community is better served by keeping them.

@WhiteCatTamer @generalhavok @QasimRashid since born citizens can't be forcibly made stateless or deported in almost all other countries in the world, I'd consider deportation to be a racist form of penalty.

  • In return, I also believer everyone should have the freedom to change nationality and residence as convenient as any subscription, because when you think about it, basically all states act as capitalist entities (and not in the "Deutschland GmbH" conspiracy theory bs sense, but as a way to maximize tax per capita)...

There's this nice #CGPgrey video that explains it:

  • States and Governments don't maintain or build things out of goodness of their hearts but because it increases tax revenue per capita.

I.e. #Germany does extremely-low tuition fees for higher education and universal healthcare not solely "because it's a good thing" or "because health is a human right" but because healthy double-earning academics with children generate way more taxable income, pay way more social security and also spend more money = pay more consumption taxes than illiterates who can barely survive and won't be able to afford good education for their children (which produce negligible tax revenue)...

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@WhiteCatTamer Thank you for your thoughts, Jay. I'm asking about the principle, not the details. Someone who deal with immigrants and immigration law may have some information that I lack, so I wondered whether, in principle, there are some people he believes should be kept out of a country. Any country, for that matter.

@generalhavok If they were to be kept out of any country, where would they live?

Who would you deny citizenship to?

@WhiteCatTamer

I'm sorry for writing so poorly, Jay. I wasn't asking whether some people should be kept out of every country. I was asking @QasimRashid whether - in his opinion - this country, that country, or any other country should be able to deny entry to specific individuals.