So let me clarify your position a bit: you do support immigration law enforcement, correct?
Also where did you get the idea that the majority of people in the US gets to decide the policy?
So let me clarify your position a bit: you do support immigration law enforcement, correct?
Also where did you get the idea that the majority of people in the US gets to decide the policy?
Yes, of course. If enforcing the law as written involves doing Bad Things, the law should be changed, but if we aren't democratically deciding to change it, then it's on us what it involves.
Mind, there's been plenty of support for the DREAM Act for quite a while now, so...
>Also where did you get the idea that the majority of people in the US gets to decide the policy?
The basic ethical grounds for representative democracy, without which the US government has no legitimacy, no matter how many pieces of paper anyone waves around.
Yes, it very much is.
>US was set up as a constitutional republic specifically to limit the simple majority mob rule.
The US was set up to preserve the power of the rural landowner class. It wasn't intended to be a representative democracy initially, and has only moved imperfectly towards representative democracy over time, with great struggle.
Rule by a minority elite claiming the mantle of national authenticity as its exclusive possession is, ethically speaking, far less legitimate than that of plain, old-fashioned majorities.