• Wilzax@lemmy.world
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    20 days ago

    Uncontrolled immigration IS a bad thing, because properly documenting the people who enter our country is vital for providing public services in a manner that reflects the population makeup.

    Nearly everyone agrees that undocumented border crossings should be reduced, they disagree on how to do this.

    That said, a failure to counter incoherent nonsense does not an acceptance make. Strive to post less sensationalist headlines

  • trevor@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    20 days ago

    The Democrats laundered the reich-wing narrative that immigration is bad and that there’s a “border crisis” when they put forward the far-right border bill that Trump thankfully tanked (for his own selfish reasons, but still good that it didn’t pass).

    Now, months later, after the anti-immigrant narrative has been laundered and normalized, we get to hear about how immigrants are “eating your pets” and how Venezuelan gangs “are taking over apartment complexes”.

    The ratchet effect is real. We need to stop demonizing people that were born on the other side of a border and Democrats need to grow a fucking spine and push back on these racist lies instead of enabling them.