It feels very wrong. And in the ideal world there wouldn't be any borders, but I find it hard to put in to words why it's bad in the here and now.
Libs will deny this. Immigration fulfills a fantastic propaganda role for them: why would people flee here unless were a wonderful prosperous freedom-loving country?
(those deemed “undesirable” enough to get deported anyway) hail from nations outside the imperial core
People underestimate how often the US deports Brits, Britain deports Yanks, etc.
Not nearly as often as the US deports the cheap labor from South America, that's for sure.
If they're here, they aren't working in the Dole banana mines.
People enjoy living in certain place. Mr Racism says "No, you can't live here"
"But Mr. Racism, I live here already, I have family, friends and a job, no criminal records here nor in my home country, I'm a good person, why can't I live where I choose?"
"First of all, you poor and brown, and by destroying your life like this I terrorize the rest of the people in your same situation, making it easy for employers to exploit you and abuse you given they can call me any time some of you poors don't want to be exploited and abused"
"Ah, I understand, at least I hope people calling themselves woke aren't ok with this and transmit it to anyone asking 'What's wrong with destroying lives and terrorizing poor people?'"
I put some extra condescension just for you baybe :heart-sickle:
people immigrate for different reasons, and it's possible that that person's motivation is True Love, so if you deport that you're standing in the way of True Love and that's bad
The act of deporting immigrants amounts to ripping them away from their homes and families, and then dumping them in a country that they might not even have any connections to anymore, depending on how long they've been away from their birth country. It's an extremely violent form of punishment dished out against people who did nothing but cross an imaginary line in the sand without getting the right paperwork.
In all actuality, the legal status of "alien" has nothing to do with how integrated into the community a person is. Someone who was born in the US but then raised in their parents' home country, that doesn't speak English or have any familial ties to the US, is a "citizen"; while someone who was brought to the US illegally as a baby, who speaks only English and has no ties to their home country is an "illegal alien" who could be deported to a country they have no memories of.
To add to all that, a lot of people who get deported just end up re-immigrating because their homes, families, jobs, and community are in the country they got deported from, they have absolutely nothing in their "home" countries anymore.
To sum it all up, the deportation of immigrants is a cruel, arbitrary practice that does nothing but terrorize people in order to create a vulnerable underclass of workers for capitalism to exploit.
Well first you ask why are they here and why should they have to leave?
Many times they're here because the conditions of their home countries have been deteriorating because of the countries they are fleeing to (imperialism, regime change, exploitation, resource extraction, terrorism, etc).
Many times they have to leave because it is politically convenient scapegoating, often with the old "shouldn't we take care of the homeless first" followed by passing antihomeless laws and then blamimg immigrants for it somehow. Other times its to appease racists/xenophobes, or because neolibs think borders are important.
It's impractical as immigrants are a net benefit to the country they move to. How bad it is depends on why they're immigrants with a baseline of it being just downright rude, if they left bad conditions it's equivalent to causing those conditions for them
Would you like to be kicked out of the country you live in and not allowed to return?
Why is it bad if an arsonist carries people back into the building he set on fire?
