That would be true for people who say that the only reason crack is bad is because it's illegal, ie. "I'm love legal crack, it's only illegal that I'm against".
But the fact is that crack is intrinsically bad. It was bad before it was made illegal and it's bad after it was made illegal, and if some court strikes down the crack law it will still be bad.
But the anti-illegal immigrant crowd claims to adore legal immigrants but abhor illegal ones. The problem is that in the majority of cases they are the same person. A majority of illegals entered legally. One day a person is legal, the next day he is illegal, but intrinsically he is the same person.
If you can't tell whether you adore or abhor a person without researching his immigration file, you have different values than me.
If you can't tell whether you adore or abhor a person without researching his immigration file, you have different values than me.
There are many other examples in which your same reasoning could be applied. A contractor has a valid license one day and the next day it expires. If this contractor does work on a person's house after his license expires, he is violating the law, even though intrinsically he is the same person he was before his contractor's license expired.
The same can be said of doctors, nurses, attorneys, engineers, dentists, bus drivers, taxi drivers, or anybody else who needs to have a valid license of some type in order to legally work in their chosen field.
"One day a person is legal, the next day he is illegal, but intrinsically he is the same person."
Yes the same person that planned to illegaly stay after the visa expired probably before they were granted that visa. A person that doesnt respect our laws and sovereignty.