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Re:Tech worker resistance is crucial to preventing human rig... by tptacek on Tuesday December 13, 2016 @11:06PM (#13173751)
How do we make decisions about these things if not based on some set of principles? What's the logic we'd use to deport someone brought here as an infant, who has known no other country but ours? What possible benefit could accrue to use to offset the harm we'd be doing? What's the point?

That the law doesn't mandate an entitlement to permanent residency for undocumented immigrants brought here as children does not mean that we should be arbitrary about making these decisions.

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Re:Tech worker resistance is crucial to preventing human rig... by jimmywanger on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @01:38PM (#13178456)
> What's the logic we'd use to deport someone brought here as an infant, who has known no other country but ours?

We should not try to help clean up other peoples' mistakes. If you bring a newborn illegally into a country where they should not be, you're accepting the consequences not just for yourself, but the baby.

The point is not we're deporting the baby, we're deporting the whole family and trying to deter future illegal immigration.

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Re:Tech worker resistance is crucial to preventing human rig... by tptacek on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @02:04PM (#13178716)
Again: I am not talking about newborns brought here illegally. I am talking about birthright citizens of the United States, owed all the same rights and protections as any other citizen.
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Re:Tech worker resistance is crucial to preventing human rig... by jimmywanger on Wednesday December 14, 2016 @02:17PM (#13178820)
You're the one that said "brought here as an infant", not "born in the United States".

And those babies born here have the same rights and protections. Either move to another country because your family is there or stay here without your family. Those are the rights that all citizens have.

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