There is wide and abundant distinction that the left seems to willfully ignore with immense effort -- the distinction between legal and illegal immigrants. The argument was never anti-immigration, it was always anti-illegal immigration and anti-unrestrained immigration.

This nuance is important.

This nuance has been erased by an administration that has canceled programs for legal immigration, then used that retroactively-illegal status to deport people who have been here for decades.

Perhaps for you the distinction is important, but in terms of policy, there is no difference at all.

I hadn’t heard of this going on and it is very alarming. Could you point me to some resources to better educate myself on the matter? Thank you.

You can start here: https://www.aclu.org/blog/immigrants-rights/deportation-and-...

Except when enforcing these policies they always seem to target those of darker skin - irregardless of the actual status of their immigration.

That distinction is actually not the point. The point is that legal and high-skilled immigrants want to come to America because of America's multiculturalism.

If you start kicking out all the people who are brown or muslim or otherwise different, you hurt the society and make it harder for the legal high-skilled immigrants to live here.

(Not to mention that for three decades American politicians and corporations encouraged immigrants to come here and work without status. And that Irish and Italian immigrants came here 100 years ago before there was any immigration law; if today's republicans existed in 1900-1930, they would have demonized Irish and Italians for votes too.)