Re:Motel 6 routinely gave guests' information to immigration...
by aceoflala on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:02PM
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Are jews illegal per se?
Are illegal immigrants illegal per se?
Re:Motel 6 routinely gave guests' information to immigration...
by klipt on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:18PM
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In the context of Nazi Germany - the Nazis passed laws to strip Jews of German citizenship, so technically Jews were illegal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws#Reich_Citizensh...
Re:Motel 6 routinely gave guests' information to immigration...
by mikeash on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:30PM
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People are never illegal. People perform acts which may or may not be illegal. “Illegal immigrant” is a dumb term. We don’t describe speeders as “illegal drivers.”
Re:Motel 6 routinely gave guests' information to immigration...
by ChemicalWarfare on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:59PM
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>> We don’t describe speeders as “illegal drivers.”
that's not apples to apples. "illegal driver" would be someone who is breaking the law by the very fact of them driving - ppl with no DLs for example. same with illegal immigrants - they are breaking the law by the very fact of being present in the country they are not permitted to be in.
Re:Motel 6 routinely gave guests' information to immigration...
by TrevorJ on Thursday January 04, 2018 @02:21PM
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Illegal refers to the immigration status, not the person.
Re:Motel 6 routinely gave guests' information to immigration...
by Cyberdog on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:13PM
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> Are illegal immigrants illegal per se?
Sure. So how do we determine who is an illegal immigrant? By looking at an illegally-obtained list of names and picking out the Hispanic ones for background checks?
Re:Motel 6 routinely gave guests' information to immigration...
by chrismeller on Thursday January 04, 2018 @01:21PM
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The majority of European (and other) countries require everyone staying at a hotel be reported, so it doesn’t become the hotel’s job to determine illegal vs legal, it just becomes a huge privacy issue for everyone because the government knows everywhere you stay.
edit: And most of those categories have been illegal in some states in the US's history.