This is one of the oldest and stupidest arguments used by racists to justify their abhorrent policies.
A country is NOT like a home. It's public. It does business with other countries. It's supposed to have goods, ideas, services, and people crossing its borders.
Racists like to say "there's no country without a border."
Bullshit. A country is defined by the people in it, not an overcompensating wall.
And lol at "border security." They mean "border militarization." It's hard to argue against security, but let me try.
What's safer?
1. A border people die trying to cross, and if they make it, they're arrested, detained, and ripped from their families 2. A border across which people can share ideas, goods, or a conversation and a meal
Borders should be PROSPEROUS. Security will naturally flow.
FAIR is the very group that is at fault for the undocumented population ballooning to 11M+ due to their foolish "seal the border" mantra. Why?
But we know the real reason you thought it necessary to tweet this.
Because your advocacy requires dehumanizing language.
You'll never call them future citizens, or aspiring Americans. Then people might realize that immigration status can be fixed with the stroke of a pen.
You have to make people believe something is being stolen from them. You need an enemy.
Every term you use and policy you push is designed for one thing: keeping people out of this country.
We know where you came from: the racist fears of a eugenicist doctor.
Banning undocumented immigrants from the census isn't new. The white supremacist group @FAIRImmigration spearheaded an effort to do the same in the 1980 census
Yet another attack on asylum seekers is published in today's Federal Register. The US creates perfect conditions for the spread of disease in squalid concentration camps, now proposes using disease as a grounds to prevent filing for asylum.
The trope of the "diseased immigrant" is as old as racism. What's horrifying about this proposed rule is that it will be used not only for COVID-19, but *any* public health issue, in the US or elsewhere.
But isn't this necessary? We're all scared of deadly diseases.
Jean Raspail was the author of #CampOfTheSaints, a virulently racist hate novel that's achieved cult classic status among white nationalists. A favorite of Steve Bannon and Stephen Miller, the novel portrays the death of Western civilization by refugees.
John Tanton, founder of today's anti-immigrant movement, whose organizations have infiltrated deep into the Trump administration, loved the novel so much he acquired the rights to republish it in 1994.
The influence of the novel cannot be overstated. If you're wondering where the WN movement gets its inspiration to formulate the horrific policies we've seen rolled out, look inside the minds of racists like Jean Raspail. Stephen Miller did:
We're six months into rebuilding America. Don't get me wrong: there's a long way to go. But today, July 4, 2021, fresh off the Supreme Court's decision last week to uphold ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment, let's take just a minute to celebrate.
The second wave last fall killed 80,000 Americans. That didn't stop thousands of Trump-supporting mobs burning masks in the streets. But we were better prepared when some GOP leadership urged mask wearing.
Plus, the international team of medical experts and allied health personnel convened in Atlanta. A vaccine proves elusive, but at least we finally joined the International Pandemic Response Cooperative.