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<< .... the anti-immigration folks, ... "I think" ... unfairly demonize [Invading criminal aliens] who "simply want to make a few bucks." >>

Like Al Capone, perhaps, who, after all, also "simply want[ed] to make a few bucks?" And whose approach to making a few bucks was no different from that of anyone whose first American activity is to contemptuously and feloniously spit on our nation's sovereign border?

And, with respect, what you do about those who "unfairly demonize" anti-American criminals is not to think about either them or the criminal actions and activities they abhor.

Rather, what you do is to feel about yourself and to project those [In your case, Good] feelings onto those whose illegal activities and criminal actions are so passionately opposed by those American-Law respecting Americans you so casually blanket as the "anti-immigration folks!" [Who, it may surprise you, no doubt have just about as many different opinions and motivations as are their numbers!]

This is exactly why I don't understand you folks.

You're equating someone who crosses borders to fix our cars or clean our offices with Al Capone!

What exactly are they stealing by cleaning our toilets? Who are they murdering?

I know you can pull together some articles saying that the occasional rogue illegal kills someone, but for 999 out of 1000, they're not killers and they're visiting our country to work, not to steal or otherwise harm us.

I'm sorry, I can't count that sort of thing as the kind of serious crime you folks seem to feel it is.

Sneaking across our borders is not murder, robbery or rape! I'm not at all convinced that it harms us as a nation. The type of extreme reaction you have to it harms your case, in my view, because your demonization of these folks is too absurd to take seriously.

And as for the evil ones ... well, there are plenty of evil killers in this country. The vast majority of them are legally here. The best way to deal with evil is to confront it directly by going after true evildoers, instead of demonizing a class of people, 99.9% of whom are harmless. If we divert our resources into policing the border, we'll arrest fewer evildoers, not more.

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