I don't think it's racist to want to deport illegal immigrants. Pretty much every other country deports illegals. Why is it racist if we do it?
The point is that many things in life do not occur in a vacuum, and while therea re many people who are well-intentioned and believe firmly in preventing porous borders, the issue cannot be NOT RACIALIZED because 1] many victims/perpetrators are of brown skin and different language, 2] their American opponents/critics are of another race/language, and 3] really, both sides put on their race-tinted goggles on looking at the matter, no matter how much certain people who are honest try to be objective and practical.
Furthermore, while I agree that the US has a right in securing what it thinks are too porous, unsafe borders, I would point out that 1] this mass illegal immigration is not an aberration but an unstoppable major long term trend, 2] it is not only the consequences of Mexico and its shit situation with shitty economics and shitty narcotraffic murders, but also the consequence of NAFTA's enormous effects, and illicit drug use, both of which US is highly culpable/responsible, 3] blocking them from coming in via barricades or guards along the huge border is a fucking waste of taxpayer money and will not only NOT work, it will BACKFIRE, and 4] 'shipping them out' is undeniably racist. You don't say SHIP EM OUT with a clean nose.
and FYI, western europe and britain are also grappling with this. I'm not saying LETS DO JACK SHIT AND LET EM COME IN but displeasure at mass immigration is almost never free from being strongly racial/ethnic in tone.
Yeah, a lot of this is pretty much bullshit, sorry. Real talk.
ok you know what Loki???
...you're right. I don't know what the hell I was thinking. Sorry. I take it all back.
...except for the wall part! You cannot construct a multihundred mile wall of security while maintaing personnel, appropriate equipment, surveillance, repair, etc, without significant amount of taxpaper money, ALL of which would go to waste because 1] there will be increased hidden tunnels, 2] they would come by sea or 'land hopping' [i.e. from mexico to island X to island Y to finally, US mainland], and/or 3] there's no way the Natl Guard/volunteers can constantly survey such a huge ass border reliably, because inevitably there will be a few 'breaks' on the barricade, and they will flow through.
Not to mention, people will rightly see this as the new Berlin Wall. And please don't tell me you're one of thoes 'why should we care about overseas popularity?' because it's so much more than that.
And finally, this huge ass wall is not a long term solution, i.e. it doesn't solve the problem, it only attempts to band aid it. At great cost, financially, morally, manpowerly, timely, and not-effective-ly.
PS: ok i apologize it seems we've moved on to other topics :/
PPS: I would also remind that to many poor Mexicans, doing it the 'legal' way is not an option, due to cost, corruption, or sheer lack of such available process. I know, not really US's fault, but there's reality.
