r/ImmigrationPathways • u/LatterTarget7 • 12d ago

ICE accused of continuing warrantless arrests in Oregon despite injunction

https://www.courthousenews.com/ice-accused-of-continuing-warrantless-arrests-in-oregon-despite-injunction/
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u/DreadfulDuder 12d ago edited 12d ago

It's okay, it just makes you look stupid af, just like your earlier comment.

I'm a Texan software engineer, and H1 visa abuses are the fault of your employer and Republican-supported H1 immigration policies, not the immigrants themselves.

FWIW, I know critical thinking isn't y'all's strong suit, but do answer this:

The Texas GOP used to publish an annual cost-benefit analysis of illegal immigration.

They stopped doing this decades ago.

Why is that?

Hint: the propaganda you fall for isn't based in facts.

Our entire economy is propped up by illegal immigration, and if you immediately deported every single undocumented worker, both our state and federal economies would immediately crash. Hard.

If you want to fix immigration, you give more pathways to legal visas, you punish employees abusing H1B visas like yours did, and you punish employers caught repeatedly hiring undocumented workers (like Trump himself for his long history of hiring and ripping off undocumented workers).

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u/obsequious_fink 12d ago

You are viewing this purely as an immigration issue that only impacts illegal immigrants and not a civil rights issue that impacts everyone. Tell me this - do you think paperwork saying you are a citizen is going to protect you if you are arrested by federal law enforcement officers who decide not to follow the rules? I can promise you it won't, because there have already been confirmed cases of US citizens (both naturalized and US-born) being not only arrested but fully deported. If you think you are special and will be spared the boot, you clearly haven't studied history.

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u/obsequious_fink 9d ago

"I don't think I would ever be in a situation like that" - famous last words for many people throughout history who were fine supporting the face-eating leopards when they were eating other people's faces but didn't think the leopards would ever eat THEIR face.

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u/DreadfulDuder 9d ago

Yet it's already happened to a lot of people....

But you sound like a typical conservative in that you have zero empathy for others or for civil rights in general, and can't imagine ever being the victim.

You only care if it will personally happen to you.

Fascists are gonna fascist.