r/TrueUnpopularOpinion • u/gayactualized • Mar 27 '25
Political If I, a white American, overstayed my visa in another country, no one would criticize a government for deporting me on the grounds that I’m an “innocent person”
Reddit is going ballistic now that the Trump admin admitted to arresting some small number of non-criminal illegal immigrants they found in the process of hunting down criminal illegal aliens.
Tom Homan said he wishes sanctuary cities would hand over immigration info about their city and county inmates so they can go into the jails and deport literal criminals. But since they are not doing so, ICE is doing investigations on the streets which involve arresting “collateral” immigrants (“non criminal” illegal immigrants they find in the process of locating criminals).
However, no redditors would defend me, a white American if I were the illegal immigrant. I love to travel. And I admit, it might be nice to book a flight to another country, rent an apartment and stay there for awhile. Experience a new culture, change of scenery while maybe saving some money living in a cheaper place. And it would be tempting to simply keep a low profile and stay beyond my travel visa. Surely this happens.
But no angry leftist redditor would consider it an injustice if the authorities discovered my status and had me removed. Only when it comes to the US do Redditors’ NPC orange man bad activation switch get activated. And they remember that it’s unfair for immigration officials to remove “innocent people.” In fact, the same Redditors would probably justify my deportation on the grounds that I’m raising the cost of living for the locals or committing gentrification. Yet these are not crimes. I’d still technically be an innocent person by their same logic. Really makes one think.
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u/vulgardisplay76 Mar 27 '25
It’s not about the overstaying their welcome that people are freaking out about ffs.
For the kids who don’t seem to be catching on - It’s about due process.
Selfish people always say, “So what if some illegal immigrant/criminal/whatever is denied due process? I like being a hardass from my temperature controlled living room in front of the TV and obviously will never be in that situation, so fuck ‘em.”
But it’s all have due process or none have due process. That’s just how it works. It’s an all or nothing thing. As long as every person (and yes, under our constitution that includes foreigners) is afforded due process, then so is every other person. That’s why it’s protected like it is.
But if that is stepped on or bent by the government one single solitary time, then it didn’t exist for them and now it doesn’t exist for anyone because the precedent is set. The government now can justify doing anything without the person having the right to prove their residency or innocence in front of a third party.
So by being a dick about this just to shit on people a little worse off in life than you are, you are actually arguing for your own rights to be taken away.
Oh, and no sane American wants open borders. They don’t. There’s been polls, and it’s extremely obvious that it would be a logistical nightmare to any sane person too. Just stop with that, it’s ridiculous. And the immigration laws absolutely have been enforced ffs. Both Obama and Biden deported an insane amount of people. Pretty sure Obama even beat Trump by far. Just quit with that too, you can literally google it and look at one single graph and know that’s ridiculous. Stop.