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I like how this still implies that it's only wrong because he had a legal situation.
After all illegal immigrants are not really human, right?
Welcome to America; the first successful Nazi regime.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_genocide_in_the_United_States
I thought it implied that Garcia couldn't be returned because they died.
Update, turns out they are still alive.
But the wording implies that the legality of this person's situation matters for the rest of the sentence, either meaning that being illegal would justify deportation, or not being able to come back after being arrested without reason.
The wording is establishing who the subject of the post is about. Since their name wasn't mentioned and you knew who they were talking about I can see that it was super effective.
I don't know who they are talking about, I don't need to.
And mentioning "legal" doesn't bring anything to the point of the post, it's just a side effect of the person's opinions
You are very confident you know what they meant for a person that is claiming ignorance of the topic. Bold strategy, hope that pays off for you.
The term is illegal ALIENS. Makes it extra racist.
The word comes from the Latin alius meaning other
Apologetic much? Dehuminization is dehuminization in my books.
Lol, I made no judgement about the use of the word, merely giving the etymology. I'm sorry you misinterpreted me as defending xenophobia.
From the Greek xeno meaning strange.
Maybe read the room a little before posting. My sarcasm, in this case, is very warranted, but you "correcting" me with an etymology lesson really makes you look apologetic. Why would you post something so irrelevant to the conversation?
"As we all know, deporting someone without consent is only an issue because he was allowed here legally. Everyone else? Fuck if I care."
That's not what their phrasing insinuates and I can see your cloaca from all the contortions you had to do to arrive at that conclusion.
Why say legally if it changes nothing, then?
Because a major point of 'reason' that the right-wing has with this person's abduction is that he was 'here illegally so it doesn't matter what happens to him'.
This messaging isn't for you. Its mostly meant to shortcircuit the above.
These little shitty 'gotcha' purity tests the left constantly foists upon itself is tiring and the stuff of children. The man the US government abducted is likely dead; murdered by despicable people willing to do unspeakable things to meet their ends. Yet you sit here griping about, what? The way one person, trying to shout back in solidarity against the coming horror, said something slightly askew? I'd think it pathetic if it weren't so exhausting.
The person in the picture likely didn't intend it, but qualifying such a statement with "legally" does have the effect of legitimizing the fascism position both in general and regarding illegal immigrants.