What does any of that have to do with deporting people who skipped that process entirely?
50% of people here without permission are visa overstays.
They knew the terms of the visa, they broke them.
50% of people here without permission are visa overstays.
They knew the terms of the visa, they broke them.
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"freedom of movement is an essential human right"
It isn't. Unless you think the people of Israel have a right to enter Palestinian land and set up encampments.
Or do you prefer is some guy in Arizona build a house on an Native American reservation without asking the tribe first?
What is happening is that ICE is trying to meet arrest quotas, and they get the same credit for arresting someone they ask to come into their office as someone absconding, so they're going after the people trying to cooperate.
Removal? Incarceration? Pathway to citizenship?
Our immigration system is convoluted, flawed and slow as molasses....but ignoring it all together shouldn't be rewarded.
What's wrong with deportation, in principle?