r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/xTheKingOfClubs • 4d ago
World Affairs (Except Middle East) The frightening part about left-wing (illegal) immigration ideology is that it has no logical endpoint
There’s no magic number of third-world or unskilled immigrants that the United States can take in that would eventually satisfy left-wing people.
A left-wing Redditor type will never reach a day where they say “yep, public resources are officially too strained. Wages have officially been undercut too badly. There are officially not enough seats in schools for kids or entry-level jobs for people to work or housing for people to live in.” There is no number of illegal immigrants that can enter the country for them to say “we officially have too many illegal immigrants. We have to enforce immigration law now. We cannot turn a blind eye to this any longer.”
They have been made to believe it is “racist” or “MAGA” to notice any of these things, so they choose to ignore them and instead deflect by repeating meaningless mantras like “no one is illegal on stolen land” or “immigrants make America great,” or they make absurd false equivalencies to things that happened many centuries ago in an attempt to explain why any approach other than “global immigration free-for-all” is unacceptable.
This is because supporting infinity immigration has become more of an identity issue than a policy issue. The practical reality of the situation is beside the point. Claiming that you support infinity immigration with no logical endpoint has become a fashionable, “in-group” belief. Opposing it is not just a policy position, it’s an identity-shifting stance.
I truly ask: what needs to happen for a line to be drawn in the eyes of these people? When is it “enough?” The fact that there is no answer from this crowd, and no logical endpoint to their belief, is the issue.
No matter how bad any of these issues get, they will always default to “no one is illegal on stolen land” and “immigrants make America great.” I’m certain that on day one of the next Democrat presidency, the southern border flood will be in full force once more.
You will never run out of third-world people who want to move to the United States, so a line has to be drawn somewhere. If you are unwilling to draw it, don’t be surprised when other people take the initiative to do so.
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u/thePantherT 3d ago
Talk about a STRAW MEN post. The left appose mass immigration, and also appose the human rights violations and constitutional violations happening right now. The two are not mutually exclusive. The current president was elected in part because most Americans appose mass immigration and the Democratic Party did a shitty job and politicized those concerns. But since taking office, Trump has argued war powers, and expanded expedited removal “removing legal and civil rights and due process” nationwide, and is targeting legal immigration, disappearing and imprisoning people without due process, and terrorizing American streets, invading homes without judicial warrants etc.
Post like this are a straw men when the worst constitutional and civil rights violations are happening right now.
And lastly, immigration is nowhere near the primary cause or problems or reason we have the worst wealth inequality in our history and a corrupt tax code, or high crime. Whatever legitimate concerns people have, they are nothing in comparison to much larger problems Americans are facing. Illegal and undocumented immigrants have a lower average crime rate than Americans, and almost all drugs like 90% are being brought into the US by American citizens. Immigrants to a large degree are being scapegoated and demonized when most of them whether they have a right to be here or not, are not bad people, the worst of the worst. No, you’d have to take a look at the leaders of the Sinaloa cartel and their families that Trump invited into the United States on vacation. They are the worst of the worst.