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This kind of thing is just nuts. My understanding is that the father was doing everything by the book. And the outcome of an election just means that just by fiat, it was decided that asylum-seekers are to be treated like criminals.
Remember how the cons just kept saying, yeah, but we are only talking about illegal immigration and how it was liberals that were conflating legal immigration with illegal immigration?
It seems they keep moving the goalposts, at least when it comes to non-white immigrants. They don't want dreamers. They don't want anyone seeking asylum. They talk about denaturalizing people and shipping them to a country they've never been to. All of this latter stuff is just wildly illegal, but they don't GAF; they are just racist and want what they want.
For most of them, it's never been about getting rid of illegal immigrants. It's been about all immigrants. Which I find ridiculous because if you go back in most people's history you'll see that one or more of their ancestors immigrated to the US. Classic pulling up the ladder behind you. Technically, all white people immigrated to the US, but even if you only start counting from the founding of the country what I said is still true.
It's not even about immigration. It's about skin color, simple as that.
The bad faith of the right has been blatantly obvious for decades at least. There was no good faith argument for the war in Iraq, after all. It was just.. what they wanted to do, so they lied.