False compassion and immigration

One of the easiest and most effective ways to discredit those who support illegal/massive immigration is to point out that many of them are engaging in false compassion: they pretend that their proposals are the humane choice, when the opposite is true. If an advocate supports false compassion, go to one of their public events, ask them a question on video based on what follows, and then upload their response to video sharing sites.

For a clear example, there are only two ways to sharply reduce the numbers of border deaths (those who try to cross the southwestern desert into the U.S. and who die along the way): either by declaring completely open borders and passing out citizenships to all who ask, or by stringently enforcing our immigration laws on the border and in the interior.

Anything between those two poles will lead to some people trying to cross the desert, and some of those won't make it.

Since we're never going to have completely open borders no matter how much an extremely small group of people want it, the only other solution if one wants to prevent border deaths is to stringently enforce our laws.

Yet, those supporters of massive/illegal immigration fight tooth and claw against most forms of enforcement. They are in effect daring people to cross the desert into the U.S. and sending them the message that if they can make it across the border they'll find a support network. Those supporters are like a neighborhood sociopath who thinks he's doing a good turn for the neighborhood children by cutting a hole in the fence surrounding an attractive nuisance such as an abandoned swimming pool.

Last modified Jan 31, 2009
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A challenge for Kevin Keenan of the ACLU: drop the false compassion - 10/19/2009

... showed a remarkable level of false compassion, complaining about deaths among border crossers without discussing the partial responsibility that groups like the ACLU have in those deaths. As detailed at the last link, groups like the ACLU enable illegal immigration by constantly fighting against enforcement of our laws. If groups like the ACLU would not constantly try to prevent enforcement, the ...

ACLU-Mexico partnership calls for nearly open borders; "humanitarian crisis" they helped cause - 9/30/2009

... to cross our border; see the false compassion page for more. If anyone wants to do something about this issue, go to ACLU events and ask them these questions. You can download their report (written by Maria Jimenez) from aclu.org/immigrants/gen/41186pub20091001.html These are their recommendations: Action on Day One: * Recognize border crossing deaths as an international humanitarian crisis. Acti...

Luis Gutierrez' "National Family Unity Tour" to pull heartstrings in support of illegal immigration; ask him a question - 2/25/2009

... show that he's engaging in false compassion and that he's not promoting the best policies. Please note that I'm talking about very difficult questions, not rants. The goal is to discredit Gutierrez and his friends by countering their emotionalism with logic.

John King/CNN: border fence works (but, maybe "reform" would be better) - 2/15/2009

John King of CNN offers "Border fence is a dividing line in immigration debate", a report from his "State of the Union" show (link). It provides anecdotal evidence that the border fence works where it's deployed, but he also closes on a note that might have been designed to promote comprehensive immigration reform, aka amnesty.

NYT: illegal immigration is "New York's special gift to America" (unhinged anti-Gillibrand editorial) - 1/31/2009

... bankruptcy", the NYT is engaging in false compassion. They support propping up the corrupt Mexican government through advocating for remittances; they support allowing that government to send us those people who might otherwise remain in Mexico to push for reforms; they support allowing illegal aliens to take college educations away from U.S. citizens; and, what they support will encourage m...

Chris Romer's immoral "moral call": let illegal aliens take college educations from U.S. citizens - 1/30/2009

... state.co.us/gov_dir/leg_dir/Senate/members/Sen32.htm Note that he's using false compassion to sell the bill (link): "We need to give them a chance to sit at the table of higher education with all of our students... So this is not only an economic essential, it's a moral call for us to make this right for all children. The moral solution is to discourage illegal activity and encoura...

You can't trust what Harold Meyerson says (immigration edition) - 12/19/2007

Harold Meyerson of the American Prospect offers a vile, illegal immigration-supporting smear piece called "Hard-liners for Jesus". Pretty much everything in it is bad, including comparing the GOP to the KKK. And, he misleads about the immigration stance of all the GOP candidates and the vast majority of GOP voters: But it's on their policies concerning immigrants where Republicans ...

Sojourners/Jim Wallis promoting massive amnesty to Congress - 4/07/2007

Continuing the age old debate about whether someone is a crook or an idiot, Jim Wallis' Sojourners organization is sending out an email to their mailing list urging people to contact Congress in support of a massive illegal alien amnesty. A purported copy is here: tgdarkly.com/blog/?p=542 Wallis has a blog at beliefnet.com/blogs/godspolitics, and I urge everyone to leave comments there des...

No More Deaths, Derechos Humanos working with Mexican government - 7/12/2006

The Arizona "humanitarian" organizations No More Deaths (run by Dr. Robin Hoover) and Derechos Humanos (run by Isabel Garcia) have signed an "agreement of hospitality" with the Mexican government that will let those groups assist potential illegal aliens inside Mexico. They will be providing them with "food, water, footwear and basic medical care", which will serve to...

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