I am far from "MAGA faithful" - but I have come to hate them as much as any "faithful"
Every April, I get a bill where my labor is stolen from me at gunpoint. I don't care if 1% of that is some lazy ass who is here to mooch off me, I would indeed rather see bodies in the street than that.
But obviously, there is the small % of aliens who have been paying taxes, taking no services, obeying all the laws. I certainly don't dislike them all that much, but how do you want to filter all of them?
Do we have a hearing for each one where we say "you broke the law coming here, so lets see if you did so and then made something of yourself?" A "you're a good one" exception?
I might be able to go along with that, but then the way that gets used is every one of the shitbags (who are the majority) get to jam up the system for 10 years while they continue to collect benefits and enshittify my former country.
Now lets also consider that I don't even compete with these people. They're not taking lawyer jobs. They're making my housekeeping bills cheaper, my roofing bills cheaper, and my lawn care cheaper... so in some ways, I'm thrilled they are here. and that was once my position.
Until I got in a debate with a lawn care guy. Me and my four academic degrees got the rhetorical shit kicked out of me and had to concede... he was right. He did everything right his whole life, and his livelihood tanked because there's no competing with people who flood in and work sub-minimum wage.
Now we're also not allowed nuance. So if you want any of them deported you're "a nazi" so once I'm over that line, fuck it, get the fuck rid of all of them.
Now personally, I could tell you the locations of at least a dozen illegals I know personally. At least half of them are people I sincerely dislike and I hope they get deported. I'm not at the point that I would turn them in -- not my job.
But these mass raids and deportations, I'm pleased about it. I'd rather they go the way they used to be -- an illegal gets picked up for domestic violence, and ICE is waiting for them when they get let out. But, the culture war has made it that these cities and states that hate trump, and hate me for being a white male, decided that they wouldnt cooperate.
so now we have what we have .
Bottom line, i've been forced to take a side. I take the side of mass deportations in a reign of terror, because the only alternative being offered is "tear down the border and flood the country"
Give me a binary choice, and I choose this. Give me more nuanced realistic choices and I will pick one, but we have an A or B here. I choose A.