Legal vs Illegal Immigration
The cluster focuses on debates distinguishing between legal and illegal immigrants, with many comments correcting assumptions that criticism of immigration applies to legal immigrants and emphasizing opposition specifically to illegal immigration.
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You seem to be confusing illegal immigrants with legal ones.
You meant *illegal immigrants right?
I am not wrong - you can be imprisoned and you are breaking the law for being an illegal inmigrant trying to enter the US illegally. Illegal immigrants or asylum seekers are not fellow citizensIt’s not hateful to be a law abiding citizen. Please stop using hyperbole and using those words because it’s wrong and you have no evidence. It’s an ad hominem attack which isn’t allowed on HN
how do we know they arnt bringing in illegal immigrants
which of those were illegal immigrants? isn't tha particularly what trump wants to stop?
Not everyone is an immigrant, illegal or otherwise.
Don't forget legal non-citizen immigrants :)
I disagree with the premise that illegal immigration is OK
Expedited removal [1] is a part of immigration law dating back to Clinton. People who are in the country unlawfully do not have all of the same rights as citizens or legal non-citizens. And support (or opposition) for immigration in no way whatsoever implies a position on how to deal with people who are in the country illegally. For instance Hispanics are less supportive of immigration than average, but more supportive than average of allowing a path to citizenship for illegal immigrants. And I
Illegal immigrants. There is a legal kind you know.