I don't think this is reflective of non-immigrants not caring as much as just the orders of magnitude, almost like the old "urgent vs important". It's hard to focus on immigration reform when masked goons are terrorizing your community
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It's also hard to see a path towards making the needed reforms and changes without first doing something about the government being controlled by evil people who are reveling in the terrorization of immigrants- which I'm sure is at least part of the attention being on removal and punishment first
aug 27, 2025, 4:59 pm • 1 0 • view
>your community What do you mean by "your"? The masked goons are terrorizing immigrants. About the worst that they've done to Americans is arrests followed by release after a few hours. They couldn't even deport a widely loathed green card holder, because the green card provides strong protections.
aug 27, 2025, 5:01 pm • 2 0 • view
Immigrants are my community. My friends, my neighbors, my coworkers. Am I supposed to just other them while people I care about are fearing for their lives all around me? If you're more upset at people seeing immigrants as part of their community than at what's happening to them something's wrong
aug 27, 2025, 5:07 pm • 1 0 • view
I'm upset at Americans who center pro-immigration Americans in this conversation and not immigrants. This is how your country ends up only passing liminalization laws like TPS and DACA that create the machinery allowing a future president to engage in mass deportation, instead of regularization.
aug 27, 2025, 5:09 pm • 1 0 • view
DACA was not a law, neither was TPS. It was administrative action because the US senate requires a 3/5 majority to pass anything non-fiscal unless the filibuster gets blown up, which I don’t oppose but try convincing senators who like that veto point.
aug 27, 2025, 5:18 pm • 3 0 • view
Yes. In 2017 it became clear that any liminal protection that relied on executive action was a fraud of a promise because it could be undone by executive action. So why did Biden repeat the same strategy?
aug 27, 2025, 5:29 pm • 1 0 • view
It is the appearance of doing something. And it does provide temporary protection. Biden had no authority to cancel student loans but even that temporary relief was helpful to the millions that got it.
aug 27, 2025, 5:31 pm • 0 0 • view