So what's the problem with giving amnesty to people who have worked in this country for years and never committed a crime other than being undocumented? I'm aware of the fact that it's a) illegal, and b) they were aware that deportation is a thing. But what I want is an actual substantive argument for why amnesty is a bad idea. The fact that it's a crime is not sufficient when we live in a country where laws can be rewritten.
"the fact that it's a crime is not sufficient when we live in a country where laws can be rewritten"
Usually you make semi-reasonable points but that is just the dumbest loving thing ever. "Too many people are breaking this law let's just rewrite it" is what you just said lol
Anyway, we could grant amnesty to the people who've worked in this country for years and whatever, but I disagree with giving amnesty willy nilly to a bunch of people who shouldn't be here to begin with. I say we grant amnesty to illegals with dependents, old ones that'd probably just die if we deported them, and ones with no criminal record in the US. This does not include any potential identity theft. But then you have all these people that are now legal who will be able to use our social programs that they never put any money into, and that doesn't seem very fair. If they have an ITIN number and they've been filing taxes that's fine, but if they haven't isn't that kind of forgeted? Or tax evasion at the very least? Amnesty doesn't just exist in a vacuum, there's a lot of other stuff you have to take into account. Not to mention we're over here prioritizing the comfort of another country's people over our own. And make no mistake, as much as we love immigrants, these aren't legal immigrants, they're essentially squatters.
Some illegals should be granted amnesty, for obvious reasons. But don't pretend like granting them amnesty won't raise up further issues. You make them legal before other immigrants that are waiting years to get in? That's forgeted up. Yes, the system needs streamlining, but that doesn't mean we just handwave the people waiting to get in.
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