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Humans deserve just treatment
5 years ago
General
Once upon a time...
To much disappointment (but not much surprise) Biden has decided to issue new deportation orders to ICE rather than abolish it and try those inside it for crimes against humanity.
If you're of the opinion that families ought to be torn apart at the boarder because they can't "prove" their families, you are lacking in compassion.
If you're of the opinion that people ought to be deported for being 'illegal' no matter how long they've been here, you are lacking in mercy.
If you're of the opinion that humans should be kept in cages without any sorts of amenities--to the point a judge has to order basic sanitary things like soap be given them--you are lacking in humanity.
There's this pervasive ideology in the US, the idea that anyone criminal deserves any sort of punishment prescribed by law because it is law and silly things like mercy and compassion ought not to temper laws. That all crimes are created equal, all criminals are inevitably going to commit crimes again, or that basic common humanity is no excuse for not doing horrible things to someone else.
My great grandparents on my mom's side came here from Italy. Before they had their citizenship they had their nine children, of whom four lived to adulthood. My grandmother was one of them, and you can probably already see why I'm right against people who want to remove birthright citizenship. You might also see why I feel very strongly against the notion that immigrants are all criminals and thugs.
I doubt many people who are for all these deportation really care about those being deported. They'll say they're illegal and that makes them criminal and, as I said, for some people being criminal might as well be being inhuman for what they're okay with seeing done. Some of them will pearl clutch and say "but how is it fair to those who got in legally" to which I reply: well maybe it should be very easy for everyone to become a citizen. Or, better yet, maybe we shouldn't worry about legal citizenship.
If a person is living in a community, helping out, paying taxes, and otherwise not causing trouble, why does it matter about legal citizenship? Just by being a good neighbor they are proving that they're already a good citizen--arguably better than someone that goes around causing nothing but grief whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower or whatever.
And that's another thing. This stupid ideology of citizenship neatly glosses over the fact that the US is all conquered land. It was stolen from the Indians who live here. None of these tribes got a say in who lived on their lands, or were given treaties not worth the paper they were written on. The colonists here have never honored their treaties. I can't think of one treaty the US has made with Indians that was ever upheld in full. All of them had terms changed when it suited the US to change them.
You can say that's negotiation. I call it dishonor. Honorable people do not change their terms just because the terms are no longer favorable to them.
You do not put humans in cages without trial and call it justice. You do not get to deport people and also claim to have mercy and compassion.
If you're of the opinion that families ought to be torn apart at the boarder because they can't "prove" their families, you are lacking in compassion.
If you're of the opinion that people ought to be deported for being 'illegal' no matter how long they've been here, you are lacking in mercy.
If you're of the opinion that humans should be kept in cages without any sorts of amenities--to the point a judge has to order basic sanitary things like soap be given them--you are lacking in humanity.
There's this pervasive ideology in the US, the idea that anyone criminal deserves any sort of punishment prescribed by law because it is law and silly things like mercy and compassion ought not to temper laws. That all crimes are created equal, all criminals are inevitably going to commit crimes again, or that basic common humanity is no excuse for not doing horrible things to someone else.
My great grandparents on my mom's side came here from Italy. Before they had their citizenship they had their nine children, of whom four lived to adulthood. My grandmother was one of them, and you can probably already see why I'm right against people who want to remove birthright citizenship. You might also see why I feel very strongly against the notion that immigrants are all criminals and thugs.
I doubt many people who are for all these deportation really care about those being deported. They'll say they're illegal and that makes them criminal and, as I said, for some people being criminal might as well be being inhuman for what they're okay with seeing done. Some of them will pearl clutch and say "but how is it fair to those who got in legally" to which I reply: well maybe it should be very easy for everyone to become a citizen. Or, better yet, maybe we shouldn't worry about legal citizenship.
If a person is living in a community, helping out, paying taxes, and otherwise not causing trouble, why does it matter about legal citizenship? Just by being a good neighbor they are proving that they're already a good citizen--arguably better than someone that goes around causing nothing but grief whose ancestors came over on the Mayflower or whatever.
And that's another thing. This stupid ideology of citizenship neatly glosses over the fact that the US is all conquered land. It was stolen from the Indians who live here. None of these tribes got a say in who lived on their lands, or were given treaties not worth the paper they were written on. The colonists here have never honored their treaties. I can't think of one treaty the US has made with Indians that was ever upheld in full. All of them had terms changed when it suited the US to change them.
You can say that's negotiation. I call it dishonor. Honorable people do not change their terms just because the terms are no longer favorable to them.
You do not put humans in cages without trial and call it justice. You do not get to deport people and also claim to have mercy and compassion.
