“It was never about ‘legal’ immigration, but always about upholding white supremacy,” said one human rights lawyer.

    • @whoisearth@lemmy.ca
      6•2 months ago

      Borderline slave labour? They want to arrest these fuckers and put them in interment camps and have them work for free. 5th amendment. Racist motherfuckers drilling slavery into the constitution.

      • @conditional_soup@lemm.ee
        3•2 months ago

        Meh. I’m not sure how much I really believe this vs. the only candidates with the financial backing and media platform to get noticed in primaries tend to be the corpocentrists.

        • @Telodzrum@lemmy.world
          2•2 months ago

          What data do you need to leave your bubble? Issue polling, favorability polling, revealed preference, actual vote share? Americans, by a wide margin, want. Less legal immigration and stricter enforcement of immigration law — including detention and deportation.

          It’s the unfortunate reality.

          • @conditional_soup@lemm.ee
            1•2 months ago

            Okay, first of all, I was questioning your assertion. We should always be willing to critically examine our beliefs, or we’d still be beholden to the divine right of kings.

            Second, while I appreciate that that’s the current state of affairs, I think that no small part of it is due to Overton window drift and nobody being willing to stick their neck out and present a bold alternative vision for people to adopt. All we have is “Mexicans bad” and everything from “Mexicans bad lite” to “[pride flags][si se puede] Mexicans okay ish”. You don’t see anyone calling for taking a hammer to the system that makes immigration so fucked up in the first place.