What's the whole point in supporting legal immigration if you don't care for individual circumstances?

So far, legal immigration has been a dog whistle for xenophobics to use. If you don't care, you don't care but you can't not care for people's circumstances and believe in legal immigration those two are conflicting since you need to hear circumstances in order to be for legal immigration in the first place
Unless you're a mind reader, you can't possibly know anyone's situation and what merit are we left with by which we allow others in?

Something I've noticed from xenophobics lately is that they act like it's only legality they care about but when you show examples of legal residents being stripped of their status, these xenophobics don't care. They want to continue saying these people are illegal.

I think I would have far more respect for someone if they just said outright what the real issue is because there's other stuff and they're not being honest about their prejudices by hiding under law and order as fake morality.

These people seem like they have no backbone, no strong morality, no sense of individuality.

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MistyCee

I might add that it's a very effective dog whistle, too.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@MistyCee It is, I've noticed that people want to see the good in others so everyone believes politicians at face value and then it becomes culturally acceptable to be racist because people believe the lies that these racists really just want legal immigration rather than just being psycho. They always want to see the good in people.

It doesn't help that we all are not around each other long enough to know warning signs or see red flags in someone so we all just believe people at face value.

MistyCee

@SatanBurger I suppose that's true in general, but with the "legal immigration" thing, I do know immigrants who resent people not going through the process "correctly" and I do think, for them, it's not so much a racial or ethnic thing.

SatanBurger · 36-40, F

@MistyCee Yeah but still I doubt they're racist against their own kind but remember colonialists pitted two African tribes against one another even though they were the same race. They convinced one group that they were stronger and even examined their bodies. Those two went to war. I read about how colonialists did that to these groups and there's even historical letters from that time detailing colonialists admitting that they did this intentionally to inspire war with the two groups.

In this case it's different but if you examine what whites say about other races they'll say things like "you're not like those people" and "you're different."

I think it's kind is similar even though we're not dealing with tribes per se.

Because I've known some Trump immigrants too and they also say propaganda they've heard from colonialists so while it's not the same, I think if one out group is looked at as smaller or weaker and how red blooded Americans are stronger in propaganda I think it becomes sub consciously engrained in our society.