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> Nobody's human rights are being actively violated because they're not allow to immigrate here. Many people’s rights are being violated recently while enforci
by coin 10mo ago
> Nobody's human rights are being actively violated because they're not allow to immigrate here.
Many people’s rights are being violated recently while enforcing immigration law
- scoofy 10mo agoMy point is about the laws themselves. If they were unjust laws, there is an argument for civil disobedience. They aren’t though, so civil disobedience here is just anti-democratic.
- 4MOAisgoodenuf 10mo agowhat is the objective criteria for just or unjust laws?
- simianparrot 10mo agoThey’re criminals. Criminals give up some of their rights. That’s how the law is enforceable.
- ivraatiems 10mo agoThis is exactly the kind of logic that makes massive abuses of power possible. "Criminals" in this case is an arbitrarily defined category used capriciously by an uncaring and authoritarian government. You could be a "criminal" tomorrow, if you look at the administration wrong.
- simianparrot 10mo agoThey broke the law at the time they entered the country illegally. That they weren't held accountable before now is an error, but it's not like the administration changed any laws. They're simply upholding it as should've been the case all along. Your naiveté is what criminals exploit