This argument would hold more water if the laws in question weren’t constantly in flux and these people weren’t being used as political footballs.
If they’re gainfully employed and have committed no crime, grant them residency (not citizenship) and allow them to keep working towards citizenship if they’d like to stay in the US.
> NO - you follow the laws of the country you are trying to enter. Period. Full stop.
Small nitpick: they have already entered the country, and were even given the right to work. Why throw away productive members of your society because of immigration policy that needs work? I’m not suggesting drastically increasing immigration quotas, only allowing people to stay who’ve built lives here after we gave them permission to come.
Even if you’re anti immigrant, keeping these people is simply a good business decision.
Hey, I have no respect for the governments 'right' to confiscate taxes, but I still follow that one. I'm also not a big fan of the myriad ways in which the federal government tramples on the duties that should belong to the individual states, but those are also 'laws' as well. Granted, they are all laws that the federal government wrote.
"Lawlessness is the condition in which your adversary refers you to a law he made."
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[ 4.3 ms ] story [ 33.1 ms ] threadIf they’re gainfully employed and have committed no crime, grant them residency (not citizenship) and allow them to keep working towards citizenship if they’d like to stay in the US.
Small nitpick: they have already entered the country, and were even given the right to work. Why throw away productive members of your society because of immigration policy that needs work? I’m not suggesting drastically increasing immigration quotas, only allowing people to stay who’ve built lives here after we gave them permission to come.
Even if you’re anti immigrant, keeping these people is simply a good business decision.
...or child labor, if that is the law
...or slavery, if that is the law
...or genital mutilation, if that's the law
We should all learn to respect the law, regardless of what it is right?
"Lawlessness is the condition in which your adversary refers you to a law he made."
But do you see the difference between laws that build a society vs zealous obedience of the law however bad they may be?