The problem here is that it is unlawful and immoral, not whether it’s a citizen or not. This implies that it would be fine if the person wasn’t a citizen.
I think we should have open borders. That said, not everyone does. Many more people have a problem with citizens being detained because the supposed focus of these raids is people in the country illegally (and supposedly people who are criminals).
Talking about how they’re detaining citizens highlights that the actions are indiscriminate, and that really they want to target any brown people. It shows they don’t care about the law. It’s also telling people in a protected class, “hey, they can come for you too.”
I don’t need anymore evidence of that, but some people do. And when we stop calling it out it becomes de facto acceptable.
There’s plenty of other headlines about illegal detaining that exclude the citizen label. This is just to highlight the fact that arrests are escalating.
No, it does not. Their current practices are absolutely unlawful and immoral but their agency exists to detain immigrants, so detaining citizens is even worse.
The problem here is that it is unlawful and immoral, not whether it’s a citizen or not. This implies that it would be fine if the person wasn’t a citizen.
It’s illegal and immoral, and the detention of a citizen proves that in black and white. That’s why it’s relevant.
I think we should have open borders. That said, not everyone does. Many more people have a problem with citizens being detained because the supposed focus of these raids is people in the country illegally (and supposedly people who are criminals).
Talking about how they’re detaining citizens highlights that the actions are indiscriminate, and that really they want to target any brown people. It shows they don’t care about the law. It’s also telling people in a protected class, “hey, they can come for you too.”
I don’t need anymore evidence of that, but some people do. And when we stop calling it out it becomes de facto acceptable.
There’s plenty of other headlines about illegal detaining that exclude the citizen label. This is just to highlight the fact that arrests are escalating.
No, it does not. Their current practices are absolutely unlawful and immoral but their agency exists to detain immigrants, so detaining citizens is even worse.