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| Topic | 39 year old Father is being deported after living in United States for 30 years. |
| legendary_zell 01/17/18 9:49:44 PM #172: | As an immigrant who hasn't been to my home country in over 20 years, my thoughts on the people defending this would earn me my second ever moderation. The immigration system in America is fucked. My aunt works for the immigration agency in Nigeria and it took her several years just to get a VISA to visit us for a summer. It takes years to do anything under this system and when you are here without some random papers, there is a constant threat that you will be separated from your family and sent to a country you have no relationship with. Just because something is a law doesn't mean it makes sense, makes people safer, or is just. Violating that law is certainly no basis to fucking cheer on draconian consequences. Someone's homeland is not determined by where they were born. It's about where they are a citizen in all meaningful senses. This guy is an American in every meaningful way, he was simply not lucky enough to have that immense privilege handed to him at birth like most of the people cheering this did. This guy did absolutely nothing wrong and none of you would have done anything different in his situation. If a law is punishing good people and bad people alike for purely formalistic reasons, then it's a garbage law that should be attacked, not defended. It's disgusting to see people who have never had to interact with the beast that is the immigration system make glib statements about it. It's disgusting that so many of you lack empathy to the point that you would defend this or even joke about it. --- ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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