Immigration Enforcement Un-American?

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

I guess you're calling that prejudice, but I have to rely on what I've got.

You turned this into justification for prejudice, which I purposedly avoided. Prejudice is natural and unavoidable and but it does exist and it does becomes greater when we are born into a society with preexisting seperations and prejudices.

If you are attacked by a homeless person with green eyes you will probably avoid the homeless while not avoiding someone with green eyes because you grew up in a society where class seperation and prejudices exist but not eye color seperation and prejudice. So, since we grew up in a society where racial seperation and prejudice exist, we will most likely stereotype racial groups, which effect our perception and "liking" towards them.

I am saying in this from an observational standpoint and remember my intial claim is that we cannot completely seperate racial and immigration issues because of subconcious prejudices. I am not adding morality into here and I am not saying prejudice is justified or not.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Not a justification, a reality.
How could I know the person attacking me was homeless? I can't, but I can know they had green eyes, and any other things I can personally see. There is no way I can know a strangers socio-economic, educational, or religious background, I can only go by appearance in one on one situations.

Sure, if you grow up in the city you'll likely be wary of wild animals, from what other people have said, until you have a chance to have your own experiences and form your own opinion.
But that wouldn't necessarily keep you from contributing to wildlife support organizations, because as a human being you have the intellectual capacity to reason wild animals are not bad.

My intellectual capacity tells me that immigrants are not bad, but people that enter this country illegally are criminals and should be removed, not supported.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Not a justification, a reality.

We both agree its a reality.

Originally Posted by xoxoxoxBruce

My intellectual capacity tells me that immigrants are not bad, but people that enter this country illegally are criminals and should be removed, not supported.

I don't disagree with this but unless you are going off on your own tangent, this was not my point. I was responding to this quote...

Originally Posted by lookout124

The reality is our current immigration issues have absolutely nothing to do with racial extermination.

which I disagreed with for the reason I have given above.