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If your guests are bad mouthing you in a private WhatsApp group, would you still invite them ?

That’s why I said the analogy was imperfect. Because border guards (or the state) aren’t “inviting” anyone. It’s not an endorsement to let people in (unlike a friend to your house)

If I would push it further to the extreme, "you" are inviting yourself. You're not a guest yet, you're inviting yourself, showing up at a stranger's door asking to be let in.

Though I agree with you that analogies have limits.

I am not even sure of anything at this point, especially after reading the comments around, almost as if it was bigotry.

It could be a cultural / education difference too; I was taught that local cultures are equally legitimate as much as my personal culture.

The US border is the door to the house of which stranger?

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