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So I agree that this is awful, and our family is most definitely the result of immigrants coming here due to persecution in the country they were in.
But my MAGA family’s response to that? They were “legal” at the time (1700’s). These immigrants are coming here illegally.
Never mind that ~ 100 years ago my grandparents were punished at school (beaten) for speaking their native language there - because they made that illegal, too.
But they’re still the “speak English this is murica” MAGA types. But this time it’s different. They do not see the hypocrisy. They do not care. They just hate brown and black people.
“legal at the time“ - I guess native indians who were displaced from their land would see things differently
It is also the must bs of all arguments. Gassing jews was legal between 1937 (?) And 1945 doesn't make it right. Killing people trying to flee over your countries border to the neighbouring country was legal between 1949 and 1990 and that still is and was wrong.
Just because something was legal does not mean it was right then nor now
Not to mention, that Fuckface 45's son-in-law has already mentioned the denaturalization process will be put into effect ASAP. Thus rendering legal immigrants as illegal (likely just the brown ones, with a scattered few non brown ones).
People who hide their bigotry behind the law disgust me. They'll say that they're only against illegal immigration while they work to make it harder and harder to immigrate legally. What is legal isn't the same thing as what is moral. You're just sidestepping the entire issue by hiding behind the law.