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It's not really about blame though, surely, it's just about upholding the law.

The child of an illegal immigrant is there illegally, they're not to blame, but they're illegal residency surely shouldn't be supported.

An analogy might be distributing inheritance evenly, because "children shouldn't be blamed for what their parents did [and how much they made doing it]".

Some people might argue we should do that... but even they'd surely agree it's pretty extreme.

Just seems like a rather ambivalent relationship with immigration law to me. But hey, that's just my outsider's point of view!




>but they're illegal residency surely shouldn't be supported.

Then provide 0 medical services, CPS services, police services, or legal system services. If you have someone here illegally, especially a child, being targeted by a predator, it sucks. Really bad. But to offer them any services paid for by the American people is supporting their illegal residency.

I find that most people who push for the view of not supporting legal residency in cases such as school care or even medical care are still willing to do so when you talk about the illegal resident being the target of a predator. This makes me think that either they don't fully accept their own logic or that there is something else at play that they didn't expand upon.


Some people see the law as unjust and not their responsibility to uphold.

Kicking a person out of the only country they've ever known is pretty harsh when they've done nothing wrong. The inheritance analogy falls pretty flat for this. Consider instead if the law said that children of murderers must be imprisoned along with their parents. If you came across the child of a murderer who had yet to be apprehended, would you report them?




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