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Comment by ceejayoz

9 days ago

> What came first, Trump or failing to enforce laws regarding mass illegal immigration?

If you wanna play that game, the country started with selective enforcement on day one. The Fourth Amendment didn’t apply to a rather large portion of the population.

> Somewhat reminiscent of the British declaring the American Revolution illegal.

It was absolutely illegal. What is legal is not always moral (the Holocaust, after all, was legal in Hitler’s Germany); what is moral is not always legal.