• yeather
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    3 months ago

    Yep, Canada was a colony of the UK at the time, they didn’t immigrate so much as move. You’ve also ignored my father being a first generation immigrant and going through the process legally a little over 20 years ago. There’s no excuse to being an illegal immigrant, they should be deported.

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      3 months ago

      My point is the definition of “legal immigrant” has changed. Nobody cared when it was all white people showing up. As soon as Asian people started showing up we passed the Chinese Exclusion Act. We changed the rules for explicitly racist reasons. The focus on the southern border is no different. Nobody cares about white illegal immigrants.

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        3 months ago

        Every illegal immigrant should be treated the same, regardless of race. You cannot break into the country.

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            3 months ago

            Brother this is now, the laws apply to everyone, European or not. If a European illiegally immigrates now they will be deported.

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              3 months ago

              Did you know there were a record number of illegal border crossings from Canada this year? Nobody is shouting for a border wall there. I wonder if that is because most are Asians who are the “model minority”.

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                3 months ago

                A wall along one of if not the largest land borders in the world is moronic and wasteful, much like how a southern border wall has been wasteful and ineffective. If you reread my comments I have not advocated for a border wall anywhere, just deportation, which would include these Asian illegal immigrants coming from Canada.