Comment on Joe Biden Hands Out Obamacare to Illegal Immigrants

• ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Deportion is not abuse

  The recipients of DACA are young people who have grown up as Americans, identify themselves as Americans, and many speak only English and have no memory of or connection with the country where they were born.

  You would send someone to a country they have no memory of, no connection to, and cannot speak the language and not call it abuse? They’re not being sent home. They’re effectively being sent to a foreign country.

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  • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Exactly. That’s why it’s abusive. It’d be like sending a random conservative to Hungary. Though CPAC attendees may love Hungary, I doubt they’d like to be sent there forcefully when they identify as an American through and through.

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    • wintermute_oregon@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s not an apt comparison.

      It is not sending a random person to a random country.

      It is sending a citizen of that country back to their country.

      One can agree or disagree with doing it, but it isn’t a random person being sent to a random country.

      If we want to get particular, it is the right thing to do under international law.

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      • PeepinGoodArgs@reddthat.com ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It is sending a citizen of that country back to their country.

        When you say “their” country, what do you mean?

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    • Blamemeta@lemm.ee ⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The abusive thing was to not deport them sooner.

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