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Speaking as someone who's changed their mind fairly recently on whether illegal immigration was logical or not (past six months, to "actually, I don't see what's wrong with it"), I'd say the biggest reason is just because of how many things are really, really innefficient under the current system. You hear stories about kids raised in the US by undocumented parents since shortly after birth, just to get deported to a (more or less) third world country that they have no history in. That's a bit insane, no? And it's not like it's being fairly enforced across the board, either. Try to find any persecution against it that isn't against someone in an at-risk community of low income. It's super unlikely that it's just them doing this. And the idea that the government can/should keep peaceful people out feels a bit...off, to me. Without serious reform, at least. As it stands, a lot of the thought processes on the "CLOSE UP THE BORDERS" sort of sentiment are a bit backward. For example, why would we want to get rid of unskilled workers who work for very little? It'd make more sense to get rid of the foreign skilled workers, since they're more than likely taking high-paying jobs. (For the record, I don't like either of those outcomes.) At the moment, another portion of why I think illegal immigration is fairly sane is just because legal immigration to the US (and many other places, it's not alone in it) is stuck in the Stone Age. It's 2018, there's no excuse for how innefficient it is at this point - especially for low-income people. |
When I read this argument, it reminds me somewhat of defending slavery.