Should you report illegal immigrants, even if they've followed the law in every other regard?

[Shit Waifu]

I live in a state full of illegals. Right by the border. they do all the labor work for squat wages. As long as they aren’t criminals, I don’t care. I used to work with a lot of people whose legal status was at least dubious, they were often very kind to me.

 

[John Titor]

I'm lazy, I don't care as long as they aren't being a nuisance.

 

[Y.V.]

As long as the illegals don't get in my way, I don't care.

 

[AF 802]

Neh.

 

[Philosophy Zombie]

imagine being such a slovenly bitch to The Man that you snitch on a family and deport them for the sole reason that "it's illegal."

when you were 13, and you were jerking off to porn on your neighbor's broadband, should your neighbor have told your weird christian mother about it because "it's illegal?" except it's not just your dignity and your internet at stake, it's your family, it's your career, it's your future, it's your children's futures when they can barely speak basic spanish and have never been to mexico in their lives.

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

except it's not just your dignity and your internet at stake, it's your family, it's your career, it's your future, it's your children's futures when they can barely speak basic spanish and have never been to mexico in their lives.

That's the risk you take when you are in a country without authorization. You can't blame anyone else for that.

 

[DNJACK]

the real question is why would anyone want to live in the USA.

 

[Joan Nyan]

the real question is why would anyone want to live in the USA.

The answer to that is Mexico. I'd hop the border if I was a Mexican tbh.

 

[flock of doves]

yes, i would. illegal immigration is illegal, doesn't take a genius. doesn't really matter where they're from, if they're from canada, mexico, greenland, wherever the fuck, if they're illegal, they need to go back. i'd probably do it under anonymous tip though

 

[PuToTyra]

Reporting people who didn't do anything to you to the police is a typical cuck behaviour.
People won't trust you if you do this. People often have something to hide, whether it's being illegal immigrant, doing drugs, having illegal weapon, being in a criminal business etc. Don't be an autist.

 

[Butta Face Lopez]

Depends. What color are they?

 

[Captain_Asshole]

What would you (anyone that pays mind to this thread) do if you learned that someone who you personally know to be an in other respects law abiding and moral individual, possibly personally trust to at least a descent degree or are even close friends with, turned out to be an illegal immigrant?

 

[Yutyrannus]

Sorry to powerlevel, but I had just listened to an episode of a podcast about the disappearance of Rick Garay, and it totally changed my opinion on this. For a long time I was like "if the act of coming in the way they do is illegal, then let them face the consequences." However, hearing personal accounts of this kind of stuff just... really shakes you up.

These people have families in corrupt countries to take care of. They're risking everything to get into the USA. In the case of Rick Garay, he had a toddler child and a fiance in the US, and grown up children in El Salvador that he was supporting by working in the USA. When deported, he trekked days through the Sonoran desert before finally succumbing to the elements, and his remains have never been found.

There are whole databases dedicated to identifying the bodies of migrants that have been found in the desert in order to alert their families that they died while crossing the border. To think every one of those people could have been mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers... it's really depressing.

I know one person doesn't determine the whole but so many of the stories seem similar. If they've made it here and they aren't engaging in a crime other than just...being here, then let them stay. I am totally aware it can't be a permanent solution, but until we think of safer/faster ways to let immigrants without criminal intentions in, it just seems the most ethical. They're going to try again and again to get in anyways.

tldr: no

 

[Daughter of Cernunnos]

None of the above. Use them as compost for the Big and Beautiful farms of the ethnostate! Experiment to use their bodies for other useful modern commodities so they can find a usefulness in death they never achieved in life. (No one uses lard and lye based soap anymore except for poor third worlders and hippies.)

 

[AnOminous]

If you are a snitch, you are a bitch.

And snitches get stitches.

 

[JoeForrester1975]

Problem is that the US has such a stringent immigration process, illegal crossing is often the most desirable choice. Wealth tends to solve a lot of problems.
Personally i am of the belief we should create some sort of Marshall Plan for Mexico. There are some pros in the long-run, like having a stable neighboring country. Also, the xenophobes might be happy to see "them goddang mexicans" go back to a prosperous Mexico.

What's the point in trying to bring back a steel or coal industry when your employees won't work for $2/hour? That's the problem with wealthy developed nations; old things tend to cost a lot more and become obsolete with world competitors.

I think fewer people would be opposed to immigration in general if all countries around the world were of a generally equal economic standard and possessed a high quality of living. Of course, there is the difference in culture that tends to create a schism between natives and recent immigrants; i think eventually whether people like it or not, Western culture is going to fuse with the culture of incoming immigrants (Latinos, East Asians, South Asians). People today might find the future to be culturally unrecognizable, but future people won't. Besides, what cultural shifts have you seen since the arrival of Irish, Italian and German immigrants to America during the 19th century? Acceptance of Catholicism, more Irish/German/Italian family names, perhaps words from those languages.

 

[Traditional Tet]

What a fucking stupid poll. Someone comes to my country illegally, lives on my soil, uses my tax dollars, could be fucking anyone from an axe murder to a rapist in their own country (cos ID is racist) and we should just let it slide? Go fuck yourself, OP.

 

[AnOminous]

Anyone who rats out their neighbors who did nothing to them would have made a great East German Stasi Communist.

 

[Alec Benson Leary]

I used to work in restaurants. If I ratted out even half the illegals I knew the kitchen would be a ghost town and they'd have my ass back there 100 hours a week to make shitty burgers.

That said, I'm getting tired of trucks of peace. I also, as a leave-everyone-alone liberal, am pro gay marriage and pro-choice and what have you... frankly, I don't want a bunch of fundamentalists of any abrahamic faith coming here in droves legal or not because America doesn't need more fundy religious shit lording over people's private lives, and unlike white Christians we all know brown Muslims' bigotry will be given a pass by the hypocritical leftists I used to identify with.

It's worth saying that I make a personal distinction between Mexicans and Muslims. In my experience with Mexicans (a lot of them in my area) they're family-oriented and friendly and if you ask them nicely to turn down the noise at their party they'll not only be considerate but they'll invite you over next time. Yeah they're largely Catholic and not warm towards the gays either, but I'll take them over the obvious hostility and contempt I see from 4 out of 5 Somalis (which we also have a ton of here).

Incidentally we also have a ton of hmong here, they're insular but generally not unfriendly to round-eyes like me. I don't know any figures for how many of them are here legally or illegally off the top of my head.

 

[ADN_VIII]

Working the industry I do, where i do, with the customer base I do, I would take the illegals over the citizens any day. Sure, sometimes the kids run around a bit, but they're nowhere near as entitled and spoiled as Americans, and they do the shit jobs I don't want to.

The guy who's peddling dope or gunrunning, Though? Fair game.