"A Day Without Immigrants": Minnesota businesses taking part in nationwide movement Monday

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Numerous businesses across the United States, including Minnesota, will shut their doors Monday, workers will stay home and consumers are urged not to shop.

So today I learned MN is a business... Needs more publicity though, if I went to a place today and it was just randomly closed without explanation I'd be plenty confused.

A day without immigrants:

No white people.

Only the tribes and peoples that have lived on this land for thousands of years.

The land is vibrant, clean, full of life. The air and waters unpoisoned.

We now return you to your scheduled collapse.

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"Don’t protest that way"

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Huh, the article doesn't specify which ones they are protesting for. You seem to have added the illegal part. Pretty sus.

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Go read the fucking article. Or do you see the word immigrant and just assume they are illegal?

You don’t determine who is a criminal. A court of law does. Removed for bad faith accusations/misinformation.

If someone enters a country without adhering to said countries immigration policy they would be a criminal every single time. I don't understand how this became controversial. Every other country that has immigration laws and upholds them is kicking people out constantly. Why is it only bad when America decides to actually enforce its own rules?

Americans are deported or outright denied entry into the UK all the time for having improper paperwork or breaking laws. Is the UK "racist" against Americans? Fuck no. They just want you to show up with the proper paperwork and complete the process as the UK government has decided it needs to be done.

I cannot, in good conscience, begrudge any family who illegally enters a country when they are fleeing violence or poverty in their own country (e.g.: they are from a country that is effectively run by drug cartels, or is in the midst of civil war).

"You need to fill out the appropriate paperwork before your family can be safe" is not an argument that will ever sway me. The bureaucracy takes too long in the vast majority of cases. People are scared and want a better life.

Some people illegally immigrate for less serious reasons, in which case sure, get 'em to fill out the proper forms. But I cannot support deporting people whose entire reason to illegally immigrate was for their safety and/or livelihood.

And please note that this position is wholly a moral one, not a legal one. I am a person with a moral compass, not a lawyer.

Most of us aren’t questioning immigration constraints, only how to handle those who have immigrated without following the legal process.

The question is how aggressively are immigration laws enforced, and do they respect human rights, asylum or health needs. How are children and family treated? What about those with nothing to return to, or only violence and persecution?

Also, how responsive- if you let someone build a life over years and decades, how can you in good conscience uproot them and send them back to a place they may no longer know.

How equitably are these enforcement actions applied? While I don’t have real stats, I’ve read the claim, in multiple places, that most undocumented immigrants are those who have overstayed temporary student or work visas. Are enforcing immigration laws equally on them, or only n Spanish speaking, poor, or darker skin people?

Because you’re redefining the argument in order to defend a topic that is not being discussed.

I don’t like having to shut down any discussion here as I like helping to promote discussion/debate, but unless you start showing an attempt to stay on the topic in good faith, I’m going to shut it down.