@golguin said:
If Trump is running on any kind of platform it's that he wants to get rid of and/or change the 14th Amendment so that the children of undocumented immigrants are no longer granted citizenship if they are born here. For anyone following the news you'll know that Trump is specifically targeting Mexico and Mexican immigrants with his comments regarding the 14th Amendment.
People are free to believe and support whoever they like, but my question is why news organizations continue to treat this as normal policy proposals from a presidential candidate and not hate speech?
This is a comment that many people from south america say, and it makes absolutely no sense.
Hate speech targets someone for who they ARE. Something is not hate speech when it targets what someone DOES.
You, and many people who hold your argument, are making the illogical connection that because someone disagrees with a person's actions, they must disagree or harbor "hate" for who that person is. Again, that makes absolutely no sense.
Illegal immigrants, ("undocumented immigrants") are those who choose to cross over the border without going through the proper channels. That's it. Full stop. There is no more information that is required to discuss the issue. The COLOR of those people is entirely irrelevant. The plight of those people is entirely irrelevant.
Why is it not relevant? Because COMMON SENSE says that a country needs to manage itself in regard to it's population. That is a HUGE issue. It's not trivial. There isn't "enough America for everybody". There CAN be, but it takes planning and regulation. Illegal immigrants don't CARE about America. They don't care about there being enough for everybody. They only care about, and this is not unique to them, themselves.
I live in Texas. I see the problems of illegal border crossing first hand, all the time. This isn't a purely philosophical debate. It is a reality for many, many, many Americans.
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