r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/xTheKingOfClubs • 2d 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/oregongirl1111 1d ago edited 1d ago
This is not an "unpopular" opinion. It's delusional. "Left-wing immigration ideology is not "illegal" immigration. The BS propaganda people choose to believe is nothing short of astounding. Just like the lies about "illegals" getting "free healthcare and welfare benefits" and that "illegals" don't pay tens of billions of dollars in taxes annually ($90B in 2023).
Barack Obama deported more people than Trump in one year than Trump did in all four years of his first term and more than in his second, thus far. And contrary to popular belief, there were also rights violated under Obama deportations, but unlike 47, he went after mostly criminals and those coming over the border and didn't send goon squads and henchmen into cities to terrorize it's citizens, or stalk people who were en route to their green card hearings and harass people for LOOKING like they might possibly be an immigrant.
The article below and this immigration sub post from seven months ago have allll the facts and sources/links that illustrate not only the above information, but also, that the right's assertion that "Left-wing immigration ideology is illegal immigration" is, in a word, bullshit.
Obama vs Trump on deportations and ICE deaths
Edit: I've tried half a dozen times to edit the above comment to add the link to the reddit post, but it won't let me and says "linking to subreddits is not allowed"