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countries have the authority to usher out people who didn't legally enter
what moral grounds do you have for your views? it's mean?
furthermore, you can welcome illegal immigrants out of the country and not be xenophobic. the concept of having a secure border and being welcoming to people who legally immigrate are not mutually exclusive.
The reason this is bullsh*t is because this "just do it legally" line is always touted by people who have little knowledge of the absurd changes and restrictions constantly made to the process of legal immigration to make it increasingly hostile to anyone who isn't wealthy. What moral grounds does anyone have for the claim that they get to decide what human beings get to occupy a place as a general principal barring that the human being is a proven danger? Dont make a post like this and act like the right hasn't been vilifying literally ALL undocumented immigrants as potential dangers to make the "border security" nonsense stick, and then turned right around and rejected probably the most conservative bipartisan border security bill that would have ever been ratified to that date. That one act alone proved this isnt even a serious issue for anyone EXCEPT the racists and xenophobes (often the same people) because the capitalist class were perfectly willing to ignore it just for political positioning, as they always do anything that directly effects poor people.
If you want go get "moral" about this, there isn't a single shred of philosophical sense behind people behaving like they have dominion over mountains, waters, rivers, whatever. Most of that sh*t comes from nonsense religious interpretation and is used to excuse genocidal behavior.
Anyone who says "just do it legally" and then votes for people who make the legal process unbearably difficult are either painfully ignorant, or liars. It's just window dressing for a base anti-immigration position.
