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user-inactivated  ·  4137 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: UT student group plans ‘Catch an Illegal Immigrant’ event

    That's quite a stretch. Last I checked deportation is legal and authorized, and there's nothing wrong with staging reenactments to try and encourage increased enforcement of immigration laws.

The legality of it has nothing to do with whether or not it's moral and good, and politics is all about deciding what's right or wrong. This event wouldn't be effective if nobody thought there was anything wrong with it.

    You can put it in terms of violence and aggressor, but only to the extent that all law enforcement is violence.

Yes. To the fullest extent.

    That doesn't mean that members of our society can't advocate for increased enforcement or additional laws.

Nobody in this thread is debating whether or not they have a legal right to promote violent border control. We just think they're assholes. They, you, or anyone else shouldn't be surprised or indignant when we call them assholes. The corollary to speech is response. So when they promote violent solutions, it shouldn't be surprising or even objectionable that they receive threats of a response in kind.

    Just because immigration is a racially-charged issue doesn't mean that advocating for deportation = advocating lynching.

I never made a literal equivalency between those two, and it's disingenuous to suggest that I did.