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by Dalewyn 499 days ago
>Assuming they don't or concluding they don't because they don't align to your preferences means that you, not them, are polarized.

Many people here including parent commenter argue for rule of law, which includes controlling and protecting the border and deporting illegal aliens as written in the law. However, those same people (not necessarily parent commenter, but probably the case also) argue for an uncontrolled anarchistic border and presence of foreign nationals in the same breath.

This is why I am of the mind that the only standard the Left has is the lack of standards. Rule of law, except not those laws.

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> argue for an uncontrolled anarchistic border and presence of foreign nationals in the same breath.

Can you cite any of these arguments? Because I struggle to take seriously your assertion when compared against data like these [1][2].

These data show laws were being followed and enforced. Maybe you want to argue about the level of enforcement, but you can't look at these data and conclude the border was "uncontrolled and anarchistic". Looks like Biden deported more people at the border in 2024 than Trump ever did in a single year. That's not anarchy.

The real issue with interior deportations is the drastic rise in pending asylum cases after 2020 - roughly 3x more cases in 2024 than in 2020, and the number is just going up. Dealing with this would be easy if you just deny everyone political asylum, but that would be lawless.

[1] https://econofact.org/immigrant-deportations-trends-and-impa... [2] https://www.ice.gov/spotlight/statistics