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So, today, I saw a sign on my school group's wall saying something about undocumented people being welcome here, which I strongly agree with. They should be welcomed as much as any citizen (I'm American so a lot of this will be in relation to my observations in the USA).

However, I have friends and family who are strongly anywhere from "illegals should be tortured" to a more reasonable (not saying it's 100% reasonable, just MORE reasonable) that the undocumented should be deported but not treated badly in the process. Some, like my dad, are right-wingers who believe in changing the border laws and don't support Trump at all (a Never Trumper I think?)

My stance is that the border laws should be changed and that the undocumented are not "illegal", they should be treated like human beings and welcome as any American should.

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[–] Jumbie@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 days ago

Seeking asylum is legal and encouraged.

Most conservatives ignore that law or gleefully equate asylum to “brown people; we hate brown people.”

The rightwing notoriously makes it extremely difficult for people to seek asylum at ports, pushing them towards crossing illegally to seek said asylum.

The rightwing government points to “breaking the law by entering illegally,” then deports the asylum seekers. These days, that deportation includes murder, rape, abuse, mutilation, forced sterilization and a myriad of other atrocities.

At the top of the pile of inhumane Conserv卐tive stances and behaviors in this regard, we find the old evil, racism. That’s why decent people instinctively mistrust any rightwing person claiming other reasons for being against immigration.