They're in favor of 1) path to citizenship for undocumented people living in America and 2) greatly increasing legal immigration caps.

They're in favor of greatly increasing immigration

Yup not my experience either. If there was a reaction, it was mostly to the caging/seperating children stories.

I'm for open borders, more or less, ama I guess?

I'm kind of confused at this rhetoric, as it seems hypocritical on its face. It's denigrating calling an argument a racist straw man, while creating a straw man ('the rabid blue hairs'). I think this is a really poor way to enter a conversation, as even the people against border control only attack the argument while this post only attacks the people.

>>> Most young people

> The woke young programmers of the bay (and elsewhere)

These are not the same.

> . I've seen this queried for exceptions, eg for convicted rapists and the rabid blue hairs torn that suggestion apart as a 'racist straw man'.

Well if that worked at all in modern society people might be more sympathetic to it. However, we've got almost no evidence that this is how border control works at all. We've got a lot of buffoonery about how other countries full of feral savages come to invade our pure and innocent land, conveniently not talking about our arms shipments and political manipulations in those countries.

Could you possibly rephrase your observation to avoid the derogatory description?

I would, but being in the middle of these two groups has left me mentally exhausted. I would delete the comment (I don't think it's helpful in hindsight), but I can't.