Comment by Jtsummers

Comment by Jtsummers 2 days ago

13 replies

Your original claim:

> It’s understood ~60-ish percent of the pop want all aliens deported not only criminal aliens

Your "evidence":

> 56% to 62% of Americans support the deportation of all immigrants living in the U.S. illegally [emphasis added]

You do realize that the polling does not support your original claim, right? That "illegally" bit is rather critical and, notably, missing in your original statement.

mc32 2 days ago

The subject is people who entered illegally or have remained past their visas. Illegal aliens under federal law. Outside of kooks, no one wants to deport legal residents. They may want to limit some form of migration but that’s not the question and that’s not what ICE are concerned with. It’s not even in their scope in any way.

  • Jtsummers 2 days ago

    > Outside of kooks, no one wants to deport legal residents.

    I agree, but that's not what you wrote in your original comment and were asked to defend and then failed to defend. You claimed that 60% of the population wants all aliens deported. The word "all" there means your claim included legal residents. Now you're backpedaling, I guess.

    • mc32 2 days ago

      If you read further down you see I reference illegal aliens. Thats the jist.

      • Jtsummers 2 days ago

        That's not what you wrote, though. You wrote:

        > ~60-ish percent of the pop want all aliens deported not only criminal aliens

        That statement covers both illegal and legal aliens. Do you not know what the words you wrote mean? Why are you lying about your words that are plainly visible on this page if you do know what they mean?

  • 15155 2 days ago

    A common technique used by illegal immigration sympathizers is to artfully conflate the two for argument's sake.

    • VBprogrammer 2 days ago

      A common technique used by racists is to pretend they are only care about illegal immigration.

      • mothballed 2 days ago

        Which is interesting when coupled with the fact that the people enthusiastically carrying that out is CBP agents (the people that murdered Pretti) at 50% latino/hispanic, and ICE also disproportionately latino. Why are minorities so overrepresented in the racist forces?