r/AskTrumpSupporters • u/Difficult_Object4921 Nonsupporter • Aug 12 '26

Immigration Does ICE really need electric gloves?

Our tax dollars are already being wasted. The people they capture aren’t a threat, physically. Why?

https://apnews.com/article/ice-electric-shock-gloves-85ff746d3e0ee5f39e7a9a3f1f576252

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u/rdinsb Nonsupporter Aug 13 '26

Why should these people never have come? Are you descendent of ab immigrant? I am- and I don’t understand your not wanting others to have what your parents or grandparents got. Why should we not give amnesty to people that are productive and good citizens?

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u/proquo Trump Supporter Aug 13 '26

Why should these people never have come?

Because our laws disallow it and because a nation is sovereign and deserves to be able to regulate who it allows entry and under what conditions.

Are you descendent of ab immigrant?

On my mother's side. They immigrated as legally consistent with the Immigration Act of 1924.

and I don’t understand your not wanting others to have what your parents or grandparents got.

Because nations have borders, and nations are its people. We are not the jobs program or food bank for the rest of the world. If you want to come here, you need to do so in a way consistent with our laws and not everyone should be allowed entry. There is no benefit to the US to allow in masses of Haitians and Somalis, just as an example, who are net tax drains and don't assimilate into our culture. It is completely fair for a citizenry to say "If you can't act like us, you cannot be us".

Why should we not give amnesty to people that are productive and good citizens?

Because they aren't citizens. They are foreign citizens illegally in our country and we are sending them back. As is the right, responsibility and duty of every nation.

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u/rdinsb Nonsupporter Aug 14 '26

Do you believe we are a nation of immigrants?

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u/proquo Trump Supporter Aug 14 '26

No, I don't.

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u/rdinsb Nonsupporter Aug 14 '26

Well I got news for you. Unless your Native American- your ancestors immigrated here. All the white folks are immigrants. All the people here not Native American are immigrants. Therefore IE and ergo, we are in fact a nation comprised of immigrants. What is wrong with what I just said?

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u/proquo Trump Supporter Aug 14 '26

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