The border thing is kind of interesting as an exercise in boring misdirection about preferences Going to pick at this and kindly note that I have no opinion about immigrationhttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1126621769522003968?s=19 …
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The first advantage is that they don't have to defend immigration per se, which might be unpopular (idk who looks at data even its 2019). Instead, they can simply point out that anti-immigration methods are cruel, and increase immigration in this way.
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The second advantage is that policy changes that can be implemented by executive fiat are relatively blunt and cruel compared to a broader program. So, pro-immigration forces can actually make further progress by blocking relatively not-visibly-cruel levers in the legislature,
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leaving anti-immigration advocates with the option of only (i) quitting the field, or (ii) calling their bluff and generating visible cruelty. If (ii) occurs this is in some sense worse for a genuine pro-immigrant platform than cooperating on finding non-cruel methods,
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but in practice it's not a loss because (i) it hurts the outgroup by making them look bad and (ii) the people who end up in cells for months aren't members of Congress so fuck em amirite
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I don't really see a way out of this. Neither side wins by backing down. Good luck!
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Hmm what do you have in mind?
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