Why do people hate my opinion so much?
Why do people hate my opinion so much?
I think hard work pays off
but it doesn’t, you’re lying to yourself and attributing privilege to hard work
www.monbiot.com/…/the-self-attribution-fallacy/
If wealth was the inevitable result of hard work and enterprise, every woman in Africa would be a millionaire.
Here’s the problem…
Let’s say you are from a war torn, 3rd world country, with gangs and crime and all that, feel your life is threatened and want to claim asylum in the United States.
There is no process to do that legally in your home country. There is no process to do that legally at the border.
The only option you have is to cross without documentation, then claim asylum once you are already here. But as ICE has proven, they don’t care about any of that.
That’s the thing:
The vast majority of people coming here are not “criminals”. Undocumented, yes, but that’s only because our system requires that before they can claim asylum.
On average, the US sees between 2 and 3 million immigrants a year.
Now here are the arrest stats:
www.cbp.gov/newsroom/…/criminal-alien-statistics
Even 2024 with a peak of 17,000 criminal arrests, out of 2 million immigrants is less than 1%.
You want to change the laws to prevent something that is, statistically, so low it doesn’t really happen.
The arrest rate of immigrants is less than 1%??? That incidence of crime is so much lower than American citizens we are effectively importing a lower crime rate.
OP, I implore you to go look them up for yourself. The thing you’re worried about is going to blow your mind how wrong you are.
Who is breaking the law when masked thugs violate someone’s human rights and deprive them of the due process guaranteed by our law and foundational documents?
For Pete’s sake I wish people were more conservative about this - respect for the law and the Constitution used to be core Conservative values.
It’s not about criminals. More native born people in this country are criminals by far. Do you want to deported them as well?
It was always about deterrent. Fine. We let all these people in. But we have our own problems that we must address first.
And it is sad that so many people were affected. But the previous administration threw out all of the rules and let countless people flood in while neglecting their own population so rich people could get richer.
Now it must end. The deterrence was quite effective. And deporting was never as important as enforcing border laws.
Do we have a country or not? If thry can enforce their laws on me, why not them?
Obviously because rich people need maids and low-wage workers.