> What makes someone like you so eager to defend the "invaders"?
I'm not particularly incensed about illegal immigration either way. I think ICE could be more humane. But they're ultimately executing the nation's laws.
What Trump is doing with California's National Guard and the Marines is orthogonal to what he's using to justify it. (The Marines aren't arresting illegal immigrants. They've been deployed against protesters. Mostly Americans.)
To the extent I believe there is a risk from illegal immigrants, it's principally in the risk from cartel violence leaking into America. These sort of theatrics undermine that law-enforcement prerogative by focussing on quantity [1] over quality.
> My instinct is to annihilate them in defence of myself, my family, my people, and our territory
I'm much more concerned about someone with those instincts than I am about nonviolent people. (As would have been our founders.)
I'm not particularly incensed about illegal immigration either way. I think ICE could be more humane. But they're ultimately executing the nation's laws.
What Trump is doing with California's National Guard and the Marines is orthogonal to what he's using to justify it. (The Marines aren't arresting illegal immigrants. They've been deployed against protesters. Mostly Americans.)
To the extent I believe there is a risk from illegal immigrants, it's principally in the risk from cartel violence leaking into America. These sort of theatrics undermine that law-enforcement prerogative by focussing on quantity [1] over quality.
> My instinct is to annihilate them in defence of myself, my family, my people, and our territory
I'm much more concerned about someone with those instincts than I am about nonviolent people. (As would have been our founders.)
[1] https://www.axios.com/2025/05/28/immigration-ice-deportation...